We at the SpinLab have really enjoyed pushing video content creation in the last quarter. We get great responses from our audiences, and it's also a ton of fun to create these videos. We can definitely recommend it, especially for new startups out there!
Shawn Segundo
Recent posts by Shawn Segundo
10 min read
Startup Blogs in 2019: How you can get yours up and running in 20 minutes or less
I am fortunate enough to enjoy writing. I do it a lot professionally for the SpinLab blog, and I write a lot in my free time as well. This is a really big advantage in 2019 because creating content to leverage good SEO tactics is more important than ever. Your customers are getting smarter, and they expect the best information online.
Topics: Startup Tips
9 min read
Effective landing pages for startups: Evaluating the latest Neil Patel offer
Let’s start with the basics here, what actually is a landing page on a website? Well, a landing page is basically a URL on your site that people land on with the hopes of taking a specific action on that page. Said action may be something like:
Topics: Startup Tips
1 min read
No Equity, No Costs - A SpinLab Rap
We've been ramping up our efforts lately with video production to offer more digitized versions of our workshops and trainings to our startups, but it also motivated us to fuse that new medium with some marketing forte. So we took a popular rap song, wrote our own lyrics to lay on top of it, filmed the content, and put it all together in one day.
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How to pitch a startup: Breaking down one of our best startup pitches
How to pitch a startup is a key skill for all founders, and something all founders need to practice constantly. On April 18th, 2018 we hosted our first ever HHL SpinLab Investors Day in the Leipzig Zoo.
Topics: Learnings
13 min read
Startup Logos: 6 tips to design them properly from the start (2020)
Successfully running a startup accelerator can be tricky business as there are typically a myriad of things we are trying to accomplish all at once. But developing a good startup logo should not be something that provides too many challenges for a young company.
Topics: Startup Tips
8 min read
First impressions for a startup: 6 ways to perfectly present your logo
We’ve seen a lot of startups come through our startup accelerator's doors, and make no mistake about it, new founders have a lot to do. In fact, they have a ton to do, and there’s normally not enough hours in the day for them to accomplish all of their daily tasks.
8 min read
What do you think is the number one reason that startups succeed?
Here in the SpinLab, you can imagine that we run into a lot of challenges that startups are having. These problems can have very extensive reaches and range from financing issues to overall construction of a basic business plan.
Topics: Learnings
7 min read
4 Reasons why startups should always create pitch decks as a PDF
There are quite a few moving components that all interlink with each other when determining reasons for startup success. Right off the top of my head, certain elements come to mind such as the interoperability of the team, the concept itself, the timing, the competition, the saturation, the innovation, and pretty much every other buzz word in the tech/startup industry you can possibly think of.
Topics: Startup Tips
13 min read
Why Do Startups Struggle With Online Marketing?
If you’re a newer startup that has a marketing plan that is already successful, consider yourself very fortunate and in a very small percentile. What exactly defines a successful marketing plan? Well of course, there are many individualized definitions for this, but basically at this stage your marketing should be bringing in more money than it costs you to have. In essence, you should have some kind of return on investment (ROI).
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