Mucker Lab

MAY 21, 2013

1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. (Internet). Everything).

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

” Here’s the summary of his track record (excerpted from the Fast Company article): Forefront — IPO’ed in 1995 by CBT — CBT stock fell 85% in 1998 and prompted class-action lawsuits. GroupOn’s engine that turned capital into revenue growth was a form of force-feeding rather than building a product).

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

A few of the detailed case studies include: Tech legend Bill Gross building an MVP in 1999 to test demand for online car sales, which grew into CarsDirect.com. PayPal, under the leadership of David Marcus and Bill Scott, re-defining and re-engineering itself by embracing Lean Startup to improve the product experience.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

For example, I quickly learned that when I twittered about the event, more often than not I would make a sale. I’ve often wanted to wire up a bell to sales data, so that when we make a sale, we literally hear the cash register ring. In May of 1998, India detonated several nuclear weapons at a test site near New Delhi.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

The goal is to better understand precisely how they look for jobs, so that you can engineer your approach to advertising opportunities to make your jobs visible to them. The process should have the sales and influence component that work to improve the likelihood of top candidates accepting. WWW search engines. SIG posting.

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

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. Engineering jobs. Sales jobs. Exclusive: Returns for brand-name VC funds By Dan Primack August 20, 2012: 12:15 PM ET. Beyond the dotcom-era benchmarks.

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Up and Running

JULY 29, 2015

Let’s start with a website that functions like a grant search engine. This grant was launched in 1998 by Womennet to help entrepreneurs succeed. You need two years of business history, at least $75,000 in annual sales, and have a good personal credit score. Here’s a list of places to find that perfect grant for your business.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 4, 2004

As you know, I have always been interested in this trend since my first post in October 2003 and since I invested in a number of companies in 1998 and 1999 like LivePerson and Expertcity (GoToMyPC) that subscribed to the ASP business model. For the vendor, it makes it: 1.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

He worked on his MBA at MIT’s Sloan School of Management (leaving in the middle for a job at Microsoft in Israel) and received his computer engineering degree from the Technion in Haifa, Israel. His ability to lead large teams of engineers had made him one of the most influential executives at Microsoft and the world.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The woman in charge of sales was so tenacious that I used to feelsorry for potential customers on the phone with her. Stephen Hawkings editor told him that every equationhe included in his book would cut sales in half. A 10% improvement in ease of use doesnt just increase your sales 10%. Its more likely to double your sales.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 9, 2011

Shechtman, who was born in Tel Aviv in 1941, had previously been awarded the Israel Prize in Physics in 1998 and the Wolf Prize in Physics a year later. Monsanto is the leading producer of genetically engineered (GE) seed and provides the technology in 90% of the genetically engineered seeds used in the US market.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

And this was at a prestigious engineering school. Gran’t is an international sales master, a NY Times Bestseller, speaker and self made multi millionaire. My long-term objective is to bring sales for jewellery back to Australia. So far, I’ve donated nearly $1,700 from sales these past three months.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

But nine months after the first call was made in 1998, Iridium was in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. They made other assumptions about the type of sales channel, partnerships and revenue model they would need. Second, since it knew the solution, it went into a 8 -year Waterfall engineering development process. iridium satellite network.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

The biggest deal I’ve ever done was a sale of a $100,000 website. 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 discovered blogging because I was told it was great for search engine rankings.

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Up and Running

JUNE 5, 2012

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a great way to improve a website’s ranking in popular search engines. That type of search engine authority is invaluable for driving organic traffic to your business site. This is because search engines are very protective of their various search algorithms. Tweak it with Keywords.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

Ratiopharm, a privately-owned subsidiary of German holding company VEM, was founded in 1973 and has annual sales of about $8.6 The acquisition of PBM adds another growth engine for Perrigo, which already has a 75% share of the store brand over the counter (OTC) drug market in the US. and was founded in 1998.

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Diego Basch

MAY 25, 2011

He was referring to the time back in 1998 when I built an mp3 search engine in C, hosted it on my desktop computer, promoted it until it reached 200k daily queries, and made six figures out of it (all in a matter of months). Some things may not be as interesting as others (OH NOES ANOTHER SALES CALL!!), Are you like this?

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

When we sold our startup in 1998 I thought one day Id do some angelinvesting. Suppose its 1998. All the search engines are trying toget people to start calling them "portals" instead. March 2009 (This essay is derived from a talk at AngelConf.) Seven years later I still hadnt started. And doessearch even matter anyway?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 23, 2017

He is a long time featured keynote speaker for things such as search engine optimization and conversion rate optimization, and I’ve had him on the show a couple of times, some of you may recall waiting for your cat to bark… maybe a call to action definitely [buyer legends 00:53] and a number of other books.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

But its stock is trading at twenty-odd times the company’s annual sales.” Another group, launched just before or after 2000, were stable enough to succeed while newer companies like Salesforce (1999), Google (1998), Twitter (2006), and Yelp (2004) have taken off like jackrabbits. There is no E in the P/E.

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