finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Exclusive: Returns for brand-name VC funds By Dan Primack August 20, 2012: 12:15 PM ET. FORTUNE -- Its no secret that venture capitalists were hit hard by last decades dotcom bust, considering that median returns for 1998-2001 vintage funds are all underwater. Join the Conversation. Beyond the dotcom-era benchmarks. Think fast!

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

With standard conversions, people receive value immediately. When we intentionally or unintentionally hurt our relationship partners, we apologize.” ( Estrada-Hollenbeck & Heatherton, 1998 ). Reveal certain details about yourself: Your name. Publicize the Names of Potential Donors. Crowdfunding is painful.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

in 1998 and eventually became Yahoo!Store. The startup’s name? Run an Adwords campaign targeting keywords that are relevant to your idea – make sure to set up conversion tracking or the whole exercise is pointless. Sold to Yahoo! Pied Piper. You’re solving a problem! This is also called value creation.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 29, 2016

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. I started thinking about my company’s name by being honest about the criticism in my industry. 1 – Clear Company Value.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

How do you feel like this book will bring structure to the conversation? [19:32] So really, my book, The Blueprint is not based just on Bezos, but it's based on interviews and conversations with former Amazonians who have adopted the leadership and communication strategies that Bezos pioneered to build Amazon. It was just an idea.

Seattle 62

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

Much of what I have found effective is counter-intuitive, because it requires investing more effort in each hire - all in the name of efficiency. Given that most recruiting channels are pay-for-performance, its usually cheaper, too, because it has a lower conversion rate.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

Now you go: Name (required). I am a “business person” – I’ve been in the Internet space since 1998 when I co-founded GoTo.com/Overture, and I have deep product and marketing expertise and a track record of building successful consumer companies and brands. I’ve had many conversations with entrepreneurs.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 26, 2020

The name of the last part? First, just to provide a foundation here, Bazaarvoice was named after Chapter 4 of “The Cluetrain Manifesto” (available for free online), “ Markets Are Conversations ”. Do yourself a favor and read “Markets Are Conversations” if you never have?—?it it was amazingly prescient.

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Up and Running

JULY 29, 2015

Kickstarter has the name recognition, but it also has a lot of campaigns. This grant was launched in 1998 by Womennet to help entrepreneurs succeed. It has the name recognition in the field, with $3 billion given out in loans. If you fall short, your donors get their money back. Amber Grant for Women.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 7, 2016

or later, Windows® 10 A simple Amazon search for VR PC led me to the Cyberpower Gamer Extreme VR  — and based on the name alone, I was sold. Looking into the belly of the beast The Cyberpower Gamer Extreme is like a PC from 1998 that time-traveled to meet us in 2016, it is not Wifi enabled. DisplayPort 1.2 Enjoy the ride!

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

During that conversation, we talked about some of my favorite philosophers and how I’ve applied their ideas to my own career. The Harvard Business School’s business plan competition has been running since 1998; the only competition winner that has achieved any sustained success is Cloudflare (2009).

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

During that conversation, we talked about some of my favorite philosophers and how I’ve applied their ideas to my own career. The Harvard Business School’s business plan competition has been running since 1998; the only competition winner that has achieved any sustained success is Cloudflare (2009).

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aweissman.com

DECEMBER 18, 2006

A common topic of conversation these days seems to be whether or not we are in another tech/Internet bubble. Famous industry names have weighed in such as Forbes/Karlgaard (not sure), Scoble (yes but its different this time), Kedrosky (not only is it not different, its actually riskier this time).

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Back in like 1998? Facebook wrote how, one day, you won’t have to use phone numbers to reach people—you’ll just type in names to connect to them. Ever try searching for someone with a common name in Facebook? Conversation history by person really doesn’t make a lot of sense to me either. Do you even check that?

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

During our conversation, I told him several of the stories I’ve included in my book: the Pokémon launch, twelve days to build a store, Bono and Product (RED). But as I started to write down names, I was horrified to realize that in the ten years of doing this, I could only remember ten people.

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David Teten

MARCH 24, 2014

We had an email conversation about the rationality, or lack of rationality, of professional investors. We over-weighted small cap value stocks in 1998-2002. My recent post on “ Asset Management is a Bizarre Industry Ripe for Disruption ” got one of the most interesting reactions I’ve received. It was a nutty thing to do at the time.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 23, 2022

Challenges of scaling Jeff and Jay share conversations about grow growing and scaling subscription businesses with a customer first approach, check out all the episodes. And I think it was 1998 and I saw him of 2016 once a year in Omaha. Enter your name and email address below and I'll send you periodic updates about the podcast.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2016

He wrote: “Life is conversational. Thus, well structured navigation and content organization goes hand in hand with having a good conversation.” Category names are relatively short and predictable, both in terms of position and copy (i.e. The entire tab should be clickable, not just the category name (text).

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

All of you people who haven’t seen my blog, please remember my name or that website address. I managed to visit Seattle as part of the Australian national Magic The Gathering team in 1998, so that was the highlight of my career as a professional Magic player. I changed the name, by the way, to MTGParadise.com. He’s German.

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ConversionXL

MAY 31, 2017

It has always seemed like a given that if your conversion rate is slumping, you could fix it by making some adjustments to your forms (e.g. And while making incremental changes to your forms can boost conversion rates in the short-term, what happens when there’s a fundamental shift in the way people prefer to buy? Image Source.

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www.paulgraham.com

AUGUST 1, 2008

The way to get really big returns is to do things that seem crazy, like starting a new search engine in 1998, or turning down a billion dollar acquisition offer. The greatest value of universities is not the brand name or perhaps even the classes so much as the people you meet. This has traditionally been a problem in venture funding.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

1990-1998 13.3% Time Period % Below IFR % Within IFR % Above IFR 1980-1989 30% 52% 13% 1990-1998 27% 49% 24% 1999-2000 18% 38% 44% 2001-2019 33% 45% 22% [ source ] When we combine the data from the two charts, we can discern some conclusions. 22% 1990-1998 13.3% 1990-1998 10% 6.3% Time Period IPO Pop* 1980-1989 6.1%

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

My name is John Bates. 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. That’s why,” or “Wow my conversion rate is not what I thought it would be by now.

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