Category: Startup Business (Page 8 of 19)

Karen Milde, CEO and Co-Founder, Reframe Marketing Inc.

To determine what the customer wants, needs and desires, most companies and business will develop a customer profile. It is also helpful when doing marketing analysis and advertising since you will have a list of targeted customers. There could be more than one customer profile as products are different and can be matched up with suitable customers. Below are some tips when developing a customer profile.

1. Collect a customer’s characteristics. They are the foundation of your customer profile. Consider the age, gender, marital status, household size, employment status, location, income, occupation, education level and country of birth of your potential customers. Read More...

by Ruby Claire of HierarchyStructure.com

Inspite of their similar origins, internet market giants Facebook and Google vary a lot in their purpose, beliefs and goals.

Google began in 1996 when Larry Page and Sergey Brin took their PHD project and started bringing it to life as a business. They brought into the market a new system of managing the webpage importance by a term called “PageRank”.  This is determined by the number of pages that link to the website. Read More...

by Ruby Claire of EducationRequirements.org

To obtain a Bachelor’s degree from a top university is growing more expensive year after year. The reason seems to be the very simple: a Bachelor’s degree can improve the earning capabilities of an individual by a large degree — excuse the pun!

It is estimated that at least a million dollars more can be earned over a working lifetime (25-64) with a Bachelors degree compared to those who lack one. Read More...

Peter Fenton, Benchmark Capital, introduces rising star Jess Lee, 1st time CEO of Polyvore. Together they explore the defining characteristics of a successful CEO within the context of determining the potential of a 1st time CEO.

In this seminar, entrepreneurial leaders share lessons from real-world experiences across entrepreneurial settings. Speakers include entrepreneurs, leaders from global technology companies, venture capitalists, and best-selling authors. Half-hour talks are followed by a half hour of class interaction.

ANSWER: “As many as it takes…”

• “Exceptional people take exceptional risks.” – S.S. Hoffman
• ‎”Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!” – Audrey Hepburn
• “So many people can be responsible for your success, but only you are responsible for your failure.”
• “There are two types of pain in this world: pain that hurts you, and pain that changes you!
• Sometimes the wrong choices bring us to the right places.
• ‎”You are afraid to die, and you’re afraid to live. What a way to exist.” – Neale Donald Walsch
• ‎”Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.” – Ruth E. Renkel
• ‎”Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90% chance or a 50% chance or a 1% chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.” – Lance Armstrong
• “The reason most people fail is that they stop trying.” S.S. Hoffman
• “He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.” – Thomas Jefferson
• “It’s not up to you how you fall. It’s up to you how far you let yourself fall and how long it takes you to get back up and stand on your own two feet.” – Sr. Tac Jeffrey Mitchell
• ‎”Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.” – Charles F. Kettering
• “If you can’t be criticized for it, it’s probably not remarkable. Are you devoting yourself to something devoid of criticism?”
• “It’s human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn’t banging loudly on the door.” – David Hackworth
• “You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.” – Walt Disney
• “Push through the pain, and conquer the obstacles. Regardless of what you think today, it won’t matter 5 years from now. SO DON’T BE AFRAID!
• “Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don’t be afraid to take that first step.”
• “Do you give as much energy to your dreams as you do to your fears?”
• “You laugh at me because I am different; I laugh because you are all the same.” – Daniel Knode
• ‎”The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” – Leo Tolstoy
• “NO EXCUSES: 99% of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.”
• “You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one. Every successful person did, what no one else was willing to do!”
• “The so called negative feedback is often love in disguise. Take full advantage!”
• “Many fear competition from others, but the biggest critic should be the person in the mirror.”
• ‎”Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
• “Waiting to develop courage is just another form of procrastination. The most successful people take action while they’re afraid!”
• “The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow.”
• “Life is short, fragile and does not wait for anyone. There will NEVER be a perfect time to pursue your dreams & goals.”
• ‎”When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.” – Eric Thomas
• “You will get what you want, when you stop making excuses on why you don’t have it.”
• “Why have you not broken from the pack? You’re playing it safe. Safe aint gonna get you shit in this world” -Stone Cold Steve Austin (WWE Superstar)
• “Don’t always scrape & search for compliments. Criticism is what builds character & strength!”
• “There’s a thin line between losing & winning. Losing breeds winners. The main recipe to success is through failures & hardships!”
• “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Bill Gates, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
• “Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.”
• “A heart is a muscle..and what do muscles do when they are torn? They grow back STRONGER!”
• “Remember that guy that gave up? Neither does no one else.”

by Neil Jesani the CEO of BeamaLife

A recent Wall Street Journal study showed that more than half of the 799 small business owners surveyed, 56% considered their business as their retirement plan, or at least had their retirement plan tied to their business.  And because of the economy, most of them are expected to retire after age 65.

This statistic disturbed me! How can anyone tie up all of their money and time into one retirement plan option? Read More...

by Inessa Obenhuber, Angel Investor & Business Expert

-In your experience, do enough women get involved in early-stage companies, such as applying for incubator or accelerator programs? Read More...

by Pardeep Boparai, founder of Janus Corporate Solutions

Pro-business policies and a strategic location have made Singapore a favored destination in Asia for global corporations. Its swank Marina Bay financial district is home to some of the largest global brands in technology to finance – it houses Google’s Southeast Asian headquarters, as well as the sprawling trading floors of companies Barclays Capital and Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Over the last 5 years, Singapore has also created a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem that has lured some of the most prominent global entrepreneurs and venture capitalists to the island. They include legendary US investor Jim Rogers, who decided to move his family to Singapore in 2007, Facebook cofounder Eduardo Saverin, who relocated to the country in 2009 and has already invested in several local startups such as Anideo, and the Golden Gate Ventures (GGV) incubator fund which aims to build a partnership between Silicon Valley and Asia. According to serial entrepreneur Derek Sivers who recently relocated to Singapore from the US, “…(Singapore) feels like a small town in a big city, with the advantages of both. It’s a great place to set up a business, which is important to me.” Read More...

People power has moved from the streets to the information highways…

• 30 billion pieces of content shared on Facebook
• 900 million Facebook users
• Online gamers solved an AIDS protein problem
• Facebook & Twitter used to organize democracy protests Tunisia, Libia, Egypt, Syria, etc.
• 90,000 Egyptians are now on Facebook
• January 27th, Facebook saw 6 times more traffic than Google
• There are more internet-connected devices than people on this planet
• Fiber signals travel 200,000 km per second
• The Internet is both reactive and proactive
• 10 million online signatures protesting SOPA
• 3 million emails to Congress protesting SOPA

Created by Open-site.org

Starting up a company is not easy.  You’ve got to be an endurance runner to make it to the end of the race.  Coming up with a great idea and getting a team together is just the first step in what can be a 7+ year trek to going public.

Along the way, you’ll have to cope with all sorts of tough questions, including the following:

• Do you pick a small problem to solve or a big one?
• What goals do you set?
• Who funds your company at the beginning of the race?
• If no one funds you, do you just start building?
• What do you do if the Beta is crappy?
• How do you get traction with users?
• Once you’re lucky enough to have traction, what investors do you invite onboard?
• Should you keep your product/service free?
• How do you best monetize your product/service?
• Should you sell your company or go for the IPO?