Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

But the real asset became obvious to me at almost exactly five PM that day, when all eight stopped what they were doing and began using a tool they had licensed from a Florida company to find other Internet gamers to join them in playing intense first party shooter games over the ‘net. Two months after that, a French game company offered $1.5

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 29, 2019

If your shipper doesn’t advertise bulk rates, give their sales office a call and let them know the volume of business that you’re doing and ask how they can help you. A rewards card that offers as little as 2% cashback on shipping-related costs would net you a $2000 discount on $100,000 worth of spending.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 13, 2015

Suppose the goal of this particular company is to achieve $1m in annual revenue for a two-person bootstrapped startup, with a goal to be so efficient as to never have to hire employees, and therefore produce a terrific little business that nets each of them a few million dollars over the next ten years. So what can be shifted?

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

But the real asset became obvious at almost exactly 5 PM that day, when all eight stopped what they were doing and began using a tool they had licensed from a Florida company to find other Internet gamers to join them in playing intense first party shooter games over the ‘net. Two months after that, a French game company offered $1.5

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 29, 2014

AWS sales are off slightly. Second quarter net sales of AWS — or at least the category in which it is embedded– were off about 3 percent sequentially to $1.168 billion from $1.204 billion for the first quarter. “Could Amazon Web Services be feeling the heat from new public cloud competitors?

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

That is because we do not sell, or use, anything other than “canned” software, for which we collect and remit appropriate sales taxes. He said that people who download “standard” software (like TurboTax) from the internet should pay sales taxes, just like someone who buys TurboTax in a box at BestBuy. Citrix Presentation Server 4.0,

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. Since its founding in 2000, its members have invested over $800 million dollars in over 800 companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, real estate and other segments with high growth potential. Keiretsu Forum.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

O’Reilly unwittingly illustrates this point by telling the story of Sunil Paul, a friend and a successful serial entrepreneur who filed a patent on the core elements of GPS-enabled ride-hailing in 2000. Yet despite literally patenting ride-hailing in 2000, his own venture, Sidecar, lost out to the more aggressive scaling of Uber and Lyft.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2019

They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. Since its founding in 2000, its members have invested over $800 million dollars in over 800 companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, real estate and other segments with high growth potential. Keiretsu Forum.

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 21, 2014

It means more customers, more sales, and ultimately more money. Rather than casting a wide net and shooting for a market that reaches across the state or country, aim to grow strong in a tight geographical area, and later spread out from there. Every entrepreneur wants to see their business grow. And why wouldn’t you, right?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 17, 2023

And thirdly, I called cast of white or net and I renamed it a more accurate scientific correct phase, which is build your brand and grow your mental availability. And I always say it's sales or conversion , you know, rate optimization. I think he has a goal of something like 2000 words a day. Secondly, use intent marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. Since its founding in 2000, its members have invested over $400 million in companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, real estate and other segments with high growth potential. Angel investors are people too.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2017

They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. Since its founding in 2000, its members have invested over $800 million dollars in over 800 companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, real estate and other segments with high growth potential. Keiretsu Forum.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. Since its founding in 2000, its members have invested over $400 million in companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, real estate and other segments with high growth potential. Angel investors are people too.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2014

Here’s where we netted out, and here’s to adding to this post in another 25 years! Mr. Wentzo joined Casewise in 2003 and has held a variety of Sales and Operational roles, with increasing responsibility. What have we learned over the past 25 years? Get Clear on Your Mission. Pay Attention to the Trends.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

18 months and 2000 hours later I finished coding the software and released it. With the strike of the pandemic, our leads and sales accelerate ten times fold the pre-COVID. That gave us the safety net we needed to feel as comfortable as possible with me leaving my job. From 9 pm to 1 am I banged away on a keyboard.

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Tim Keane

MAY 27, 2010

Remarks to the Visionary Companies Conference, Billings, MT May 27, 2010 It’s a fact that all net job creation since the 1980s has come    with under 100 employees.   It was sold in 2000 and today is the customer service arm of Fidelity Financial in Florida. People are the whole game. None of this is new or recent.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Over 13 years ago, in March of 2000, I wrote a blog post titled “ The Most Powerful Internet Metric of All. ” No other metric so holistically captures as many critical aspects of a web site – user design, usability, performance, convenience, ad effectiveness, net promoter score, customer satisfaction – all in a single measurement.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Do that – nothing else but one product / company / focus and get to $1M in sales with atleast $15% net profit. Friends & Family – High net-worth individuals with a passion for you and your industry. I also like to get a sale $$$ ASAP. High net-worth individuals familiar with the industry or credit cards.

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ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2018

Better examples of a falsifiable hypothesis might be: I believe my shoe business is losing money because our sneakers are priced too high and by reducing the cost we will increase sales by at least 50%. By reducing the cost of our sneakers, sales will not increase by at least 50%. Check out some examples of null hypotheses below.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 11, 2016

It’s not often that I pull a dusty old marketing book off my bookshelf to talk about a more current marketing topic, but almost 20 years ago I stumbled upon Jay Abraham’s book, Getting Everything You Can Out of All You’ve Got , and I think what he shared in 2000 is still relevant today. So what is the lifetime value of your average customer?

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Designmantic Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Net Worth – $34.3 Net Worth – $150 million – Twitter: @benandjerrys. Net Worth – $150 million – Twitter: @sundarpichai. Net Worth – $2.3 Net Worth – $100 billion – Twitter: @Walmart. Net Worth – $2.7 Sergey Brin – Co-founder of ‘Google’. ” 2. .

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

that did so in 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Jay R. million products as of June, and this year expects to do $140 million in sales. Sales Jobs |. FINS: Finance, IT jobs, Sales jobs. Ritter, a finance professor at University of Floridas business school. BlackRock Inc. My Journal.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

The Point The point of The Software Product Myth is that at some point you are going to have too few sales to support yourself monetarily, yet too much work to fit comfortably into your evenings and weekends. This way you can keep the sales funnel rolling when your knee deep coding. #7 7 Drew on 01.08.09 8 Seb G on 01.08.09

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2011

Net foreign investment in stocks traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) totaled $440 million in June, 9% higher than in May, and well above the $240 million monthly average recorded during the first six months of the year. The company has plants in Israel and the US, and sales offices in the US, Japan, and Europe.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

. - Feedbox is a cellular based console that enables retailers, restaurants and other service providers to gather and analyze crucial customer feedback in real time from multiple points of sale/contact. Improves customer experience during sale, after sale and support interactions while generating revenues and reducing operational costs.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Bates: Josh, it reminds me of when I was doing web sites back in the day in 2000 and 1998 and instead of going and being able to buy a shopping cart you had to code the shopping cart from scratch. One of the things that we’ve done fundamentally I think it creates this difference is that we focus on sales. Bates: You know Josh—.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2012

From sources that the studios at one time claimed would put them out of business: Pay-per view TV, cable and satellite channels, video rentals, DVD sales, online subscriptions and digital downloads. 2000 – Digital Video Recorders (DVR) like TiVo allowing consumer to skip commercials was going to be the end of the TV business.

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