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Jay Samit
American
Businessman
Born:
Jan 31
,
1961
Business
People
Time
Will
You
Your
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There is no better feeling than doing well while you are doing good. If you really want to meet the nicest, most caring people in your field, get involved with charity work. The thankless hours that go into planning charity dinners, running a carnival, and gathering donations for silent auctions are noticed and appreciated.
Jay Samit
Work
Good
You
Charity
People
Better
Feeling
Field
Gathering
Meet
Caring
Carnival
Running
Dinners
Charity Work
Silent
Hours
Most
Involved
Well
Doing
Doing Good
Go
Than
Get
Thankless
Donations
Want
While
Really
Noticed
Your
Planning
Nicest
Appreciated
Networking is all about connecting with people. But then again, isn't that what life is about? The more time you can find to get out of the office and build true friendships, the farther your startup will go. Entrepreneurs need to remember to spend as much time working on their business as they do in their business.
Jay Samit
Life
Time
You
Business
People
Remember
Will
Build
Startup
Spend
Out
Find
About
More
Networking
Entrepreneurs
True
Go
Friendships
Office
Get
Again
Then
Much
Working
Your
Farther
Connecting
Need
To truly launch a great product, you need partners. Channel and marketing partners share in your success and share in the costs of reaching your target audience.
Jay Samit
Success
Great
You
Channel
Marketing
Launch
Costs
Share
Reaching
Partners
Audience
Truly
Target
Product
Your
Need
Entrepreneurs always begin the journey believing that they have the next big idea. They dream of the fame and fortune that awaits them if only they had the funding to pursue it. But the reality is that as the product is built and shared with customers, flaws in their concept are discovered that - if not overcome - will kill the business.
Jay Samit
Journey
Business
Reality
Overcome
Will
Big
Dream
Only
Pursue
Entrepreneurs
Had
Shared
Idea
Concept
Always
Built
Discovered
Big Idea
Fame
Fame And Fortune
Begin
Them
Customers
Flaws
Next
Product
Fortune
Awaits
Believing
Funding
On average, it takes as much as $100 million in paid media for a brand to be a household name in America. Marketing partnerships are the best form of off-balance sheet financing one can ever find. Smart startups use this technique to scale their companies and build their brand equity.
Jay Samit
Best
Smart
Build
Startups
Marketing
Scale
Financing
Find
Takes
Name
Household
Household Name
Partnerships
Sheet
Equity
Brand
America
Form
Average
Much
Paid
Use
Companies
Media
Ever
Technique
Million
Targeted marketing delivers a lower customer acquisition cost and gets you to profitable growth faster. The goal is to quickly identify the costs associated with acquiring your most profitable segment of customers and the incremental value - if any - of going beyond your core.
Jay Samit
You
Value
Faster
Incremental
Marketing
Cost
Costs
Segment
Beyond
Most
Identify
Goal
Targeted
Quickly
Gets
Any
Going
Customer
Customers
Acquiring
Acquisition
Lower
Your
Growth
Profitable
Associated
Core
Microsoft first entered the living room with Ultimate TV way back in 2000 - a year before Apple's first iPod was announced. Ultimate TV offered consumers a DVR and supporting online services, including 14 days of programming and the ability to record 35 hours of programming. Microsoft's reach was then thwarted when Echostar acquired DIRECTV.
Jay Samit
First
Year
Before
Living
Programming
Back
Way
Entered
TV
Ability
Record
Online
Consumers
Supporting
Thwarted
Announced
Days
Reach
Hours
Ultimate
iPod
Offered
Microsoft
Room
Acquired
Then
Including
Apple
Living Room
Services
Television programming is the number one topic on Twitter, and dozens of start-ups in the social space are linking second-screen experiences. People no longer need to sit on the same couch to enjoy a show together.
Jay Samit
Together
People
Space
Sit
Enjoy
Twitter
Programming
Topic
Television
Couch
Longer
Linking
Same
Experiences
Social
Show
Dozens
Number
Need
To effectively reach consumers in the new social environment, brand managers need to learn how to translate their budgets into the digital realm, which also means understanding the advantages that digital can provide over television advertising.
Jay Samit
Digital
Understanding
Television
Consumers
Environment
Advantages
Over
New
Reach
Budgets
Also
Advertising
Learn
How
Provide
Effectively
Brand
Managers
Which
Social
Translate
Realm
Means
Need
The Industrial Revolution was about making physical things. Many of the manufactured goods that were once tangible objects have now been reduced to bits and bytes of data.
Jay Samit
Revolution
Once
Bits
Physical
About
Objects
Data
Goods
Industrial
Industrial Revolution
Making
Reduced
Tangible
Were
Been
Many
Now
Things
Just as the music industry couldn't combat the financial impact of digital piracy, major corporations will have to rethink how to maintain margins when many of their most profitable items can be easily manufactured at home.
Jay Samit
Music
Home
Financial
Digital
Will
Music Industry
Corporations
Easily
Impact
Rethink
Combat
Maintain
Major
Most
Industry
How
Items
Piracy
Just
Many
Profitable
Margins
Every company, regardless of size, is competing for the same pool of talent, which is why top recruiters can even command equity for finding key hires. Internships give startups a chance to hire the best and brightest from our universities at a fraction of the cost that these same minds will command when they receive their degrees.
Jay Samit
Best
Key
Will
Pool
Every
Startups
Our
Minds
Top
Finding
Degrees
Cost
Give
Talent
Equity
Hire
Command
Same
Size
Regardless
Which
Company
Even
Why
Brightest
Receive
Competing
Chance
Fraction
Universities
You need to begin to network with angels and VCs while you are still ideating. It is easier to ask someone you know for funding than a stranger. Build your financial network by attending as many industry functions and reaching out for advice from experts online.
Jay Samit
You
Financial
Advice
Build
Easier
Out
Angels
Someone
Online
Network
Attending
Know
Reaching
Industry
Still
Begin
Than
Experts
While
Ask
Your
Stranger
Many
Functions
Funding
Need
Too many startups get in the habit of continually raising more and more money, which has the deleterious effect of both pushing out profitability and limiting your exit options. The less rounds of capital you need to raise, the more of your company you get to own.
Jay Samit
You
Money
Own
Too
Startups
Out
More
More And More
Both
Habit
Pushing
Limiting
Continually
Effect
Exit
Options
Get
Which
Capital
Your
Less
Many
Company
Rounds
Profitability
Raise
Need
Raising
For all founders, going public is a momentous milestone that has to be experienced to be fully understood. It is the culmination of years of hard work and personal sacrifice.
Jay Samit
Work
Hard Work
Sacrifice
Understood
Culmination
Years
Personal
Going
Experienced
Public
Hard
Milestone
Fully
Momentous
Founders
In my experience, there are only two valid reasons to take a company public: access to growth capital and investor fatigue.
Jay Samit
Experience
Valid
Fatigue
Only
Take
Investor
Access
Public
Public Access
Capital
Reasons
Company
Growth
Two
Social media and personalization are providing both brand advertisers and end-users with hyper-targeted choices and opportunities for double-digit growth.
Jay Samit
Opportunities
Social Media
Both
Advertiser
Providing
Brand
Social
Double-Digit
Choices
Media
Growth
As every entrepreneur and investor sifts through year-end data to predict the next trend or opportunity for financial success, there is a much easier way to accurately predict the future: hang out with those who are creating it.
Jay Samit
Success
Future
Financial
Entrepreneur
Opportunity
Trend
Predict
Every
Way
Those
Easier
Out
Data
Through
Investor
Accurately
Hang
Much
Next
Creating
Who
Creating the right advisory board for your startup can be the single most important step you take in building a new business.
Jay Samit
You
Business
Important
Single
Building
Startup
Take
Step
New
Most
New Business
Advisory
Important Step
Board
Creating
Your
Right
As good and as smart as you may be, no one knows everything. I truly wish I was as smart as I thought I was when I started my first company.
Jay Samit
Good
You
Smart
Thought
First
Wish
Everything
No-One
Knows
Truly
May
Company
Started
Betting all your funds on the belief that you know what consumers want and are willing to pay for is like jumping into a river to test its depth - you'll need a lot of luck to stay afloat. To have a truly successful product launch, the conversations with your customers must start long before you write your first line of code.
Jay Samit
You
Long
First
Before
Pay
Luck
Willing
Launch
Must
Stay
Write
River
Consumers
Betting
Like
Know
Test
Line
Truly
Lot
Jumping
Afloat
Want
Conversations
Customers
Depth
Successful
Product
Your
Belief
Code
Start
Funds
Need
By maintaining an active feedback system at every stage of a startup, founders can reduce their burn rate, increase their virality coefficient, and retain key hires.
Jay Samit
Key
Feedback
Stage
Active
Every
Increase
Startup
System
Rate
Retain
Maintaining
Reduce
Burn
Founders
From the very first inkling of a concept, founders need to gather a target group of five to ten potential users to begin the feedback loop. We all think we know how the market will react to new ideas, but actual users live with the pros and cons of the existing market conditions every day. They are the market experts.
Jay Samit
Day
Every Day
Feedback
Will
First
Live
Group
Every
Think
Market
Ten
Potential
Pros
New
Ideas
Know
Concept
React
Loop
How
New Ideas
Conditions
Existing
Target
Very
Begin
Five
Experts
Users
Actual
Cons
Founders
Need
Gather
What most entrepreneurs don't understand is that it isn't the economy that bursts a bubble, but investor psychology.
Jay Samit
Entrepreneurs
Bubble
Investor
Economy
Most
Understand
Psychology
Bursts
Too many investors overvalue companies in the near term while undervaluing them in the long term.
Jay Samit
Long
Too
Investors
Long-Term
Term
While
Them
Companies
Many
Near
The greatest challenge to most innovation centers around the world is many nations' punitive attitudes towards failure. In most of the world, if your first business fails, no one will work with you again. But, trial and error is the genesis of innovation.
Jay Samit
Work
Failure
You
Business
Innovation
World
Challenge
Will
First
Trial
Trial And Error
Punitive
No-One
Towards
Fails
Genesis
Attitudes
Most
Around
Greatest
Greatest Challenge
Error
Nations
Centers
Again
Your
Many
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