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Kumar T

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I'm fairy resourceful. I used to work on hard science engineering problems in polymers and particle accelerators. Now I work with data, scraping, crawling, and growth marketing wrangling data and a bit of mimetic energy to help companies grow.

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Kumar T answered

How to market and gain awareness for a non-electric iced coffee maker ?

I can help you substantially here. Ping me.

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Social Media Marketing

Marketing Strategy

Kumar T answered

Looking to build a video site. How does a non-technical person figure out what to do and how much it will cost?

If you have zero resources, this is exactly how I would proceed. Especially without technical skills.

1.) Go to tomodo.com
2.) Skin the growthhacker.tv site. with your own graphics.
3.) Manually reach out to people on letslunch.com who are developers and show them mockups of your site that you've built on tomodo and ask for advice. Do this 3 times and collect their feedback.
4.) Keep talking to developers until you find one that is as amped about building your site as you are.

5.) If you book me, I can walk you through more trips and tactics as a non-tech person.

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Technology

Web development

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Hardware Start-up, Shipping 1st product run to US and Canada, FCC regulations ?

I would talk to the team at http://efabless.com Really helpful guys and they can get you an IC prototype for $100 - $10,000

They've built a lot of the smartphone IC's you see in mobile products today. If you're dealing with FCC part 15, give me a shout and I can help you navigate a bit.

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Hardware

Logistics

Regulatory Compliance

Kumar T answered

What are the best sources of competitive advantage for a fast growing Internet software company?

There's never a substitute for building your product and talking to customers.

If you're not well versed in growth hacking, let's talk.

Depending on your market, there's a variety of algorithmic ways to pursue customers and hundreds of API's to power the pursuit.

The one insight I have here that isn't often mentioned is the number of high fidelity backlinks per an hour that you're able to produce.

If you use http://ahrefs.com you'll notice that the highest growth ventures have a strong correlation with backlinks. (Causality is difficult to identify, but correlation isn't. ) The internet was built for land-grab tactics.

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Entrepreneurship

Strategy

Competitive Strategies

Kumar T answered

What is the best way or any resources besides obvious ones (alibaba) to find textile (fabric) manufacturing here in the US or abroad?

http://makersrow.com - this is probably your best bet.

I wouldn't use a website though.

I'd talk to entrepreneurs and creators of high tech textiles in the USA. Look specifically at http://titintech.com and Klymit jacket. Reach out to those founders and learn as much as possible. Both of them are really nice guys and might be better equipped to share horror stories as well.

Also be sure to look at http://reddit.com/r/textiles

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Manufacturing

Textiles

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How do I expand/reach out my granite business to big companies like Home Depot or builders/developers?

Set aside a budget of ~500 USD.

1. Identify source URLs where the contact info of Real Estate Builders & Developers sits.

2. Go to apifier.com

3. Hire them to crawl construction builder and real estate website developer URLs. You can grab the phone number and email address of many of them this way.

4. Use mailshake.com to do email blasts to these folks for biz dev.

5. Rinse and repeat for different geographies.

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Growth Strategies

Marketing Strategy

Global Expansion

Kumar T answered

Where could I learn about CAC, LVT / growth hacking?

The best place to learn is priceintelligently.com

They've done a lot of work on their blog explaining key metrics and helping SaaS companies grow through data driven experiments.

As far as growth hacking, I highly recommend the following:

- Learn how to write well - read On Writing Well - Writing is your analog attack vector for anybody doing growth.

- Participate in online forums that interest you. You need to naturally make it part of your DNA understanding how forums work, feeling the highs, the lows, the no traffic, the high traffic, etc... get obsessed.

- Learn APIs, how they work, and regularly browse sites like Producthunt.com and betalist.com to learn about new products. WHen you see them, try to imagine how they were built and upon which APIs they were constructed.

- Scraping & Crawling - learn the game bit.ly/scrapingmonster

- Build Automation bots leveraging zapier initially, and as you get more advanced, learn the capabilities of tools like ubotstudio.

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Marketing Strategy

Growth Hacking

Revenue & Profit Growth

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How to grow a two-sided P2P marketplace?

This almost always effectively comes down to contact database abuse.

Linkedin Grew and got a 10M USD fine after importing addressbooks of users and inviting a ton of people to the platform.

Ebay and Paypal had interplay requirements.

Airbnb abused craigslist bots in the early days.

There's always platform abuse to grow a P2P marketplace.

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Online Marketplace

Marketplaces

SEO

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How do startups in the digital health space “sell” their solutions to healthcare providers in the US?

It's primarily a relationships game.

- Recruiting someone who has a large rolodex of relationships in the space
- Build something on bing news search api and scrape all of the job postings of healthcare institutions to find "signals" indicating someone needs the solution you have to flag companies.

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Healthcare Information Technology

Healthcare IT

Digital Strategy

Reviews

Very clear, actionable advice on navigating the startup landscape in SF. Highly recommend, Kumar is incredibly knowledgeable yet concise.

David Nape Source: Clarity

Kumar was extremely helpful and vaulted me into more future success.

Nicholas Oliveri Source: Clarity

Actionable and scrappy advice backed by real experience. Kumar continues to help unblock things at critical times.

Jaimeen Dalia Source: Clarity

Kumar was fantastic!

Shri Sukhani Source: Clarity

I had a great call with Kumar. It was amazing to see how quickly he could assess my business positioning and needs then formulate a growth strategy while on the call. Lots of great ideas to pursue. Will use him again!

Connor Mooney Source: Clarity

Sharp, well-rounded in knowledge, and effectively concise per usual. Thank you!

Jaimeen Dalia Source: Clarity

Great call and information! He is very informative and on cutting edge.

Source: Clarity

Kumar is a human wikipedia. The amount of knowledge stored in one human being, along with his creativity is second to none!

Chananya Bineth Source: Clarity

One of those rare people who combines technical chops with an understanding of human nature instinctively. He doesn't bullshit, just drops sincere advice and hopes you get results from it. I will be working with him again.

Sandeep Sood Source: Clarity

Excellent call, tons of info and suggestions. Kumar provided many tools and valuable insight. Highly recommend.

Michael Brombacher Source: Clarity

GREAT call. Kumar gave both tactical and strategic advice. Highly recommend him!

Mark J Source: Clarity

Member since October 2012