StartupNation

JANUARY 10, 2022

What is one business basic every entrepreneur should perfect when looking to start a business? To help you master the business basics, we asked business leaders and entrepreneurs for their best insights. They pitch customers, candidates, employees, and investors via email, Zoom calls, at water coolers, and more.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

You are ready to launch and thinking about the right go-to-market strategies that will lead to quick and scalable growth ? —?a a critical juncture of your venture’s life cycle, as a majority of startups have only one chance to make a strong first impression. Take time to thoughtfully create your aspirational customer profile.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Not everyone has the drive to start their own business. We need that entrepreneurial spirit and mindset in the world in order for innovative new businesses to emerge. You need to consider all of the steps that need to be taken to open a business. You need to consider all of the steps that need to be taken to open a business.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

GDP, so it’s no surprise that digital health is attracting record levels of investment. Given the high cost of care in the United States compared to other nations, pairing fintech with health tech is just good business. Fintech’s growing role in the healthcare revolution. residential housing market became feverish as well.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

When a product is truly unique and demanded a retailer willingly promotes and sells it en masse in part because it does get margin on the good but also because it brings customers in the door who spend on other products. If your product can easily be copied, as soon as you are successful it will be. So Why Does This Matter?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 14, 2021

It’s practically impossible to run a business today without technology. Take just a sliver of business?—?say, say, a Marketing team. Multiply that across every function that the Marketing team performs, and we manage 20+ pieces of technology to reach potential customers. You can just keep going and growing.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Before all else, if you’re about to start your journey as a new business owner, congratulations! Before setting the wheels in motion, discover the various growth stages your business will go through, their associated challenges and how to tackle them. Starting your own business is just the beginning.

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Startup Blogpost

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

From optimizing your sales funnel to getting a head start with sales/marketing copy, here are 9 answers to the question, “How can a startup (with limited capital and resources) utilize artificial intelligence in their business?”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In his view, “the public market for BNPL companies actually feels pretty damn strong at the moment.” Really, this market isn’t good enough? Zoom looks beyond video conferencing as triple-digit 2020 growth begins to slow. Zoom looks beyond video conferencing as triple-digit 2020 growth begins to slow.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

ScaleIT is a notable tech business event for the country (which clearly took over from the fabulous TechCrunch Italy events of a million years ago). We are sector-agnostic in our approach, and we invest both in B2B and B2C tech/digital companies from various industries. What’s your latest, most exciting investment?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Lead generation is a critical cornerstone in the world of sales — in a seemingly infinite sea of potential customers, you need to know who wants to buy, or who might buy, what you are selling so that you can focus your pitches (and your time and energy) in a more focused way. We’re solely and exclusively focused here.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 22, 2022

As every business owner knows, certain things are outside of your control when it comes to the success of your company. Adjust your business model. Businesses need to be flexible and know how to adapt, especially when the economy dips. Manage your reputation. Manage your reputation.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Ann Arbor continues to be one of the top growing tech ecosystems around the country with some of the best startups to watch. Blumira is another Duo alum security startup in Ann Arbor that is growing quickly. AdAdapted creates technology that helps you add advertised products to your grocery list with one click. EverActive.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2022

If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. I’ll also be talking to Ramp CEO and co-founder Eric Glyman, Airbase CEO and founder Thejo Kote and Anthemis partner Ruth Foxe Blader in a session called “How to Compete without Losing Your Mind and Runway When Cash Is Expensive” that same day.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but when it comes to getting ahold of an appointment for your hair or another treatment…that’s a different story: The bespoke nature of a lot of the work has meant that a large swathe of the professionals providing these services have stayed offline when it comes to interfacing with customers.

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StartupNation

MARCH 15, 2021

Startups and small businesses continue to pivot and adapt their operations to meet both the changing demands of shoppers and the near constant evolution of local regulations. The one-year anniversary of the pandemic also marks a unique point for entrepreneurs hoping to rebound or even grow their businesses in the near future.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

I cover how I met founder Johnny Boufarhat, how the company started in 2019, what the early days were like, what it was like when the pandemic hit, what hyperscaling feels like, and more: What You Learn at a Startup that Grows from $0 to $2 Billion Valuation in 1 Year What You Learn at a Startup that Grows from $0 to $7.75

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

The two were inspired to build a platform that could, leveraging predictive algorithms, help businesses formulate strategies to navigate “uncertain” environments — like a global pandemic. New York–based Arena is the brainchild of Pratap Ranade and Engin Ural, who co-founded the company in 2020. Image Credits: Arena.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

On the more sophisticated end of the spectrum, call center automation promises to resolve customer service issues to free up agents for more complex work. “[With the new capital,] we plan to ramp up investment in our customer success team to onboard new customers,” cofounder and CEO Gadi Shamia told TechCrunch via email.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

Early-stage startups tend to claim that their go-to-market strategy is fully operational. High churn means customers aren’t delighted, low gross margins mean poor unit economics, and that so-called magic number? “You can calculate it by taking new ARR divided by your marketing and sales spending,” Nahm writes.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 2, 2021

For this morning’s column , Alex Wilhelm looked back on the last few months, “a busy season for technology exits” that followed a hot Q4 2020. We’re seeing signs of an IPO market that may be cooling, but even so, “there are sufficient SPACs to take the entire recent Y Combinator class public,” he notes. Is Substack really worth $650M?

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Startup Blogpost

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

From implementing “Innovation Fridays” to encouraging risk-taking and experimentation, these leaders provide a wealth of insights into the impact of their strategies on their businesses. Our “Innovation Fridays” have become a cornerstone of our success, driving both creativity and business growth.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Salesforce dominates the world of CRM today, but while it’s a popular and well-used tool for organizing contacts and information, it doesn’t have all the answers when it comes to helping salespeople and marketers sell better, especially when meetings are not in person.

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Reforge

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Many of the world’s most valuable and fast-growing companies — Google, Uber, Amazon — credit their success to running thousands of experiments. Yet in private, most marketers are worried about the returns they’re seeing from their testing programs. How do you know if your big bet will pay off?

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Starting a business is very difficult. This Guide is for the aspiring business owner and entrepreneur for the purpose of spuring thinking and investigation that will lead to the creation of a business plan followed by the business launch. Request situations where they had an opportunity to observe your actions.

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NZ Entrepreneur

APRIL 29, 2019

IoT (The ‘Internet of Things’) has the potential to do some amazing things for New Zealand businesses, but at the very heart of it, people will want to know how it will help their organisation grow – or more to the point, bring in greater financial gains. And how have some businesses already achieved this?

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

In building FC this way, Mittal and Silver seek to crack a real problem: plugging into the Silicon Valley network, which operates more like a business network from a century ago, based on who you know, not what you do or what you’ve done. You know, my prior businesses, one was an enterprise software company.

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 4, 2024

17 Metrics to Measure the Success of New Business Development When it comes to gauging the success of new business development, CEOs and founders are key voices to listen to. Discover the metrics they prioritize to measure progress and ensure their business strategies are on track. It becomes a numbers game.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

While London, Paris, Berlin and Stockholm feature regularly in tech coverage, the rest of Europe has been busy. Among the trends they identified are startups in B2B, business automation processes, e-commerce, AI, SaaS and COVID-19-related solutions, as well as “smart” everything: factories, cities, offices, etc. Innovative.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 23, 2020

While business owners don’t know for sure if a recession will hit in the near future, the need for ensuring your business can weather the storm is real and growing. ” The more nimble your ship is, the quicker you can make decisions and implement change throughout the culture and organization. .”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Growth marketing is often misconceived as a set of tactics when it’s much more: It is a process that startups need to put in place in their early days that will scale as their customer base and internal teams grow. ” (If you too have growth marketers to recommend, please fill out the survey !). Gus Ferguson.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. The SaaS startup — which started out in early 2020 by selling its payments tech to other businesses — raised a $35 million Series B led by Sequoia. This means that it is able to provide software for many types of businesses to accept credit card payments. “If

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

While stuck in rush-hour traffic, it occurs to you that you’ve forgotten to book a babysitter for the kids — and find a restaurant for the team outing scheduled toward the end of your trip. “We do what’s important, not what’s urgent.” ” A background in AI. ” A background in AI.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

It does things like verify and store documents, automate interest rate calculations and digitize assets such as homes. . Where Stripe is next-gen payment infrastructure, Setpoint’s goal is to be the funding operating system that companies like SoFi and Opendoor will be using to run their businesses,” Rubenstein told TechCrunch.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

In my LA I often see computer screens open with entrepreneurs talking about digital media. If you are talented, of course, you can get funded in any region with enough venture capital and obviously in markets outside of the Valley it is easier to get noticed and get access. million in SF Bay Area ). LA investors are more pragmatic.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Ward van Gasteren embraces the “growth hacker” term, despite the fact that some in the profession prefer the term “growth marketing” or simply “growth.” The hacking part should be a distinct effort on top of ongoing marketing, he says. Growth hacking does have some noticeable differences from marketing, as outlined on your website.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

But that has, ironically, also meant that some of the most-used digital recruitment services around today are also some of the least evolved in terms of tapping into all of the developments that tech has to offer, leaving the door open for some disruption. So when you build on top of that, everything looks like a consumer application.”

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