K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

In 1996, when I started my first company, SneakerLabs, Inc., One of our first customers was a stock trading company in NY that wanted to host live stock chats. Another customer was my alma mater, Carnegie Mellon University, who was using it to host online class discussions for its distance education program. Not so fast.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Ensure staff, partners, customers, and board understand the business technological vision. Own and manage the internal IT customer support process, and externally where appropriate. © 1996 - 2010 Reincubate Limited. Work with others to produce graphic design for prototype. XML sitemap. VAT registered #867 0159 09.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 2, 2010

I’m on an Acela train between Boston and New York (listening to Boston’s More Than A Feeling – how recursive) on my way to the TechStars Boston 2010 Investor / Demo day. On the eve of the graduation of the TechStars Boston 2010 class, I thought I’d weigh in with some additional advice to anyone who either is or wants to be an angel investor.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

In 1996 RIM was still in the hardware business selling packet-switched wireless radio modems to OEMs. But RIM decided to hide all of that from their customers. In today’s language of Customer Development , RIM positioned the Blackberry as a segment of an existing market – pager users who needed two-way communication.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

This is a story about starting an enterprise seed fund called Boldstart in 2010 and our journey in enterprise since 1996. What seemed like a big bet in early 2010 was only us pursuing our passion. Despite our firm being a little over 6 years old, our individual stories go further back.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

John Jantsch: Want to quickly send amazing looking emails to your prospects and customers in just minutes? So back in 1996 I wanted to start my own business and I asked my mom, “Hey, what businesses could I do from home?” So that was 2010. Back to Podcast. Transcript. Visit aweber.com for a 30-day free trial.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

They had a phenomenal obsession with customer service and offered free shipping and returns. Believe it or not, three years after founding the company in 1996, Larry Page and Sergey Brin actually tried to sell Google for $1 million. Each one can provide valuable lessons to the entrepreneur. Modest profitability. -

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

We worked together at Andersen Consulting between 1996-99 when the markets were booming. And coming to the end of 2010 I feel a sense of reminiscence of some of the trends from a decade ago. He always was. But his favorite line was, “can you please slow down and explain this again? I’m only a 386 processor.&#.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

Now let’s take a look at the current version of the same inflation-adjusted data: Total venture capital raised from 2008-2010 was just shy of $55 billion, about 0.12% of the national GDP, with the trajectory of capital raising declining in each year. In fact, 2010 venture capital fundraising is at the same level as it was in 1995 and 1996.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. A description of the problem you’re solving for your customers, and your solution to the problem, which is usually your product or service. Solve a problem you can relate to.

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ConversionXL

MAY 31, 2017

What happens when evolving customer preferences for certain technologies make lead capture forms obsolete? The first wave of messaging software arrived with ICQ (launched in 1996), followed by AIM (1997), Yahoo! The Rise of Messaging for Business-to-Customer Communication. A Shift in How We Communicate. Image Source.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Imagine you want to store data about customers, each of whom has "last name" field in your database. Customer data is normally partitioned according to customer id. What about log data about customers? For example, lets say you have data about customers. For example, consider this simple scheme. Easy to understand.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue. A move allows the business to get close to the customer, learn their pain points, and adapt accordingly. So how do Israeli ventures scale up? However, waiting to move to the U.S.

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