StartupNation

DECEMBER 16, 2021

MailChimp : While SMBs start building their email list, MailChimp helps ease this process allowing them to create and send surveys, tags and basic audience segmentation. For example, Solfire , a small Brooklyn-based retail shop, offers their customers a juice and smoothie bar along with a “fitness oasis” where clubs can meet and exercise.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Each new modality needs to find its platform-disease fit —the diseases it is uniquely suited for. But finding fit has increasingly turned into a fight; many have crowded into the same indications. But it comes with a hefty price tag of $2.1 Source: Andreessen Horowitz research.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

Other features for a digital journal that might be important to you include password protection, Markdown support, the ability to add more than one photo, location and weather tags, and journaling prompts. You can also tag entries with hashtags, insert photos and videos, password-protect your journal, and format entries in Markdown.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2023

Ensuring that your smartwatch fits snugly to obtain accurate data is crucial. Fitting the sensors that are typically available in a smartwatch in a ring is a challenge for manufacturers. The other key challenge in smart rings is ensuring that they fit perfectly. In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The news of a media startup raising money was paired with rumors of an exit for email media darling Morning Brew for a price tag of up to $75 million. million for its fitness instructor platform. Here’s what we got into: A Media Roundup: The Juggernaut raised $2 million in a round that we found to be both cool and timely.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Radhika and her husband Bharath Patil were heavily invested in tracking their own sleep and fitness patterns, and when their first baby was born in 2014, they built a prototype of the Cradlewise for her. The final product the team created was a rather pricy cradle, and I asked the team whether the price tag made sense.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 17, 2021

Unless you find an alternative business model to monetize a totally free SaaS product, you’ll have to attach a price tag to it. We’ll focus solely on how to identify your initial price tag; regardless of how that price tag is charged and what product or service it is attached to.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Go on, then, here’s a few more stories (and some delightfully weird music by Cosmo Sheldrake to go with it): Ramp ramps rev growth : Mary Ann reports that Ramp reports accelerating revenue growth , showing that fintech companies with good product-market fit still have plenty of growth in them. You can sign up here.). Big Tech Inc.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2020

A good publicist will be able to not just peg you into "one box but will be able to see several potential ways you can fit into a story or a story can fit around you. If so, share it with others on LinkedIn and tag me. They should make sure you don't get questions about marketing! Are they a master of story angles ? Count Me In!

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

An EV for everyone : We’ve run our fair share of electric vehicles with some pricey price tags associated with them, so it was only fitting that we highlight what General Motors is doing with its $30,000 all-electric Chevrolet Equinox SUV. Kirsten has more.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

After the event the five startups receive a list of angels who express their interest level in their startup: a) Setup a followup meeting, b) Keep me posted but not a fit right now, c) Not a fit. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. The dinner is paid for by service providers and sponsors who pay $1500 each to participate.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Sources pegged the price tag at $1.1 Vista isn’t afraid to spend big money, if they can make even bigger money in a couple years if they can make these pieces fit together,” Leary told TechCrunch. Certainly, other companies like Ping Identity seem to have benefited from joining forces with Vista.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

This all-equity round is notable not just for its size, but for the price tag it confers on the startup: Factorial is now valued at $1 billion, double its valuation a year ago when it raised $80 million. Led by Atomico, the round also included GIC as well as past investors Tiger Global, CRV, K-Fund and Creandum.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 3, 2010

I can’t recommend you to be employee number four or five for the company that I just joined the board of unless I’m pretty sure you fit within the culture and have the same values as the founding team. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology. I can’t get to know your company without getting to know you as a person.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Cham is very skeptical of the one-size-fits-all approach. So cheeky Chamillionaire went to Universal wearing the tags from every other label he had visited. Tags: Startup Advice This Week in Venture Capital. More recently it has been by putting free early releases of songs for free on Twitter.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Personal treatment from a team member who checks in or even comments on social posts where your brand is tagged or hashtagged keeps you top of mind and adds a layer of appreciation, even when they are necessarily in the buying mode. . Not all your products or services will be a fit for a customer, and that’s ok. Engage Regularly .

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 30, 2010

It would be their other, more empathetic, creative soft skills that would probably make them a good fit for this design challenge. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology. So when I’m looking at teams, I don’t think about whether this team is “smart”. I think about whether they’re the “right” team for the challenge.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

After that, the subscription model will kick in, with a price tag of £10 per month or £100 per year — some $125. “There are all sorts of people you wouldn’t expect to fit the traditional stereotype of a tech founder. More from TechCrunch+ on Substack here.) PreSeed Now will be available for free for the next two weeks.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2010

I’ve seen so many people escape—leaving New York City because they didn’t find what they were looking for or felt like it didn’t fit them. Tags: It's My Life Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. Now, some of those same people call us a city of “ energetic ass-kickers ”. I’ve lived here my whole life. The people that stayed?

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AUGUST 25, 2010

It fits the way mainstream users want to communicate. They’ve met some great developer hires and are cranking away to launch new features for the TechCrunch Disrupt in SF—quite fitting given where they started. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

When an employee is not the right fit that person needs to be moved on quickly (kindly and legally) for everyone’s sake, but most acutely because there is very little latitude in a startup for anything slowing progress. In deep tech companies value creation milestones are more likely to be tagged to validating the technology and IP creation.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 24, 2021

Some people, you’ll see, end up close to the middle with no clear tag. Each person fits somewhere on the CVF. It’s important to stress that there are no good or bad scores in personality profiles or on the CVF. That’s not a problem. They have a dose of everything. They are malleable and serve as valuable connectors.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

So is DeviantArt, which in November launched a protection that relies on HTML tags to prohibit the software robots that crawl pages for images from downloading those images for training sets. Adobe, which recently announced generative AI tools, is pursuing its own opt-out mechanisms and tooling.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Fintech free fall : Mary Ann and Kyle tag-team a summary of what’s happening in the land of fintech in our newsletter the Interchange. “ All the prices that are fit to post : Airbnb is tweaking its search so that it will soon show prices inclusive of all fees in search results, Ivan writes.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2022

For example, her business uses the tagging tool on Instagram for each product which shows the basics like price and the direct website link. Walton’s Jewelry has been operating for more than 50 years, and co-owner Julie Walton Garland talked about how she brought the brick-and-mortar jewelry storefront into the digital landscape.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

To ensure you’re sending relevant emails to the right audiences, segment your audience using tags and filters within your email marketing platform. About 46% of all emails are opened on mobile devices, which means the subject line must be short enough to fit on a smaller screen while getting your point across.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Dovetail’s product is software that allows customers to collect user feedback data from NPS (net promoter score) surveys, audio, video and text answers, which are then tagged by teams, machine-analyzed and shared across an organization. That’s actual product-led growth.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 28, 2019

Some businesses just can’t fit within the angel capital or friends and family model for raising funds. These include “tag along rights” which allow investors to sell some shares when others, such as management or founders, sell any shares. What VC’s can and cannot do.

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Reforge

OCTOBER 13, 2022

This combination fits the bill for action because this particular pair of complementary colors are associated with strongly opposing concepts — fire and ice, earth and sky, land and sea, dawn and dusk, natural and scientific. Tag each example with relevant “memes.” Credit: Marketing Memetics 2.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2010

The problem is that in an early stage business there probably isn’t a perfect fit between your early product and a customer’s needs. There are no people like this who know how to crank the sales machine once the product / market fit are aligned. Tags: Startup Advice. But hire them too early at your peril.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

Before using phone numbers to collect customers’ information, the company used QR codes and NFC tags. We’ll cover every aspect of company-building: Fundraising, recruiting, sales, product market fit, PR, marketing and brand building. Because of its original business model, Koinz had to iterate several times.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2010

Get your product/market fit working before you ramp up your costs (or raise too much money). Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. “Nail it before you scale it” – I missed who said this but I love this quote. It is the key to “customer development” that Steve Blank talks about.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

My personal favorite and best fit for GRP Partners was Thumbtack. Tags: Tech Market Analysis VC Industry. There wasn’t a bad company tonight but I had a clear favorite. I suppose I should keep it to myself but I guess Jason will be helping to hype up all the companies anyways. Thumbtack is marketplace for local services.

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JANUARY 21, 2010

At First Round , I often hear the term “product-market” fit. Instead, what we have is a bobbing and weaving product with a product-focused entrepreneur—one who takes in the feedback of those around him, his customers, and sees the existing trend and is able to discern a product strategy around it—a nice fit.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

Content like promotions, discounts, and sale announcements fit in a B2C campaign but would feel strange in an email to a business. For example, you might set up an automation that tags email contacts with any new information you receive about them, like demographic details and job characteristics.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

That wouldn’t be a fit for what the role is and you wouldn’t be happy. Tags: VC Industry. We’re willing to accept people who were graduated only 2 years ago and would maybe consider somebody who was graduated around 7 years ago. But we’re not looking for somebody who has too much experience, like 10+ years.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2010

If I get inappropriate intros I’ll usually accept that one intro but send an email to the introducer and explain to them why this wasn’t a great fit. I simply can’t fit in the time any more. Tags: Start-up Advice. If it’s really not relevant I’ll politely say so. You should try it, too.

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