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. Chipmaker Intel Corp has agreed to acquire mobile navigation software maker Telmap. He discovered the Icosahedral Phase of crystals aluminum transition metal alloys in 1982.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Mr. Lindzon continues to manage a hedge fund he started in 1998. He has been granted two software patents, and has multiple patents pending. With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Jack Daly is a master of public speaking and sales and shares with us his tips and processes. Jack Daly is an expert in sales and sales management inspiring audiences to take action in customer loyalty and personal motivation. Two-time Amazon bestselling author of Hyper Sales Growth and Paper Napkin Wisdom. Show Summary.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The year was 1998. The company made little effort to charge for the software or community. I have saved this next story until now because it is one of my favorites, and certainly illustrates the point about timing being a combination of luck and skill as well as anything I could devise from fiction. The background for my story.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2014

I’m not sure where that rule comes from, but by that measure, we should see the first self driving cars on sale in 2017. The ready availability of these consumer-grade autopilots suggests that navigation in open air by software is no more challenging (and may be less so) than navigating ground-level streets.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 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”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. (Internet). Evernote, Dropbox).

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. So where does Salesforces profitability stands today compared to the most successful on premise public software companies? traditional software is like cocaine--youre hooked. Labels: SaaS , software.

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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. I wanted to work in the pure, intellectual world of software, not deal with customers mundane problems. Some believe only businesspeople can do this-- that hackers can implement software, but not design it.

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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 Billing software company Amdocs has acquired mobile payments and messaging firm MX Telecom for $104 million in cash. and was founded in 1998. ISRAELI CABINET APPROVES 2-YEAR MODEL FOR BUDGET 2011-2012.

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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”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. (Internet). Evernote, Dropbox). 2008 – “RIP, Good Times”.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2016

To do so, they reached out to Mercenta (a retargeting software company) to help get more website visitors into their local Mazda dealerships by way of some smart PPC ads. The value of car sales through their retargeting was 98% higher than the offline average. Retargeting Case Study #1 – Mazda & Merchenta.

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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. Video games and software have been targets since their inception. Where did the other $57 billion come from? The reality?

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Michael’s second problem comes from holding software engineers to an unprecedented standard of business savviness: Most software engineers aren’t business people.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 9, 2006

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Paris, November 1998. sales and marketing. (10). software. (10). Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan. Software 2.0:

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Popular games like the Lineage IP, released by NCSoft in 1998, has generated over $4 Billion in revenue over its lifetime, most of it driven by its mobile version. According to MarketWatch, GTA has generated over $6 Billion in total sales since its release in 2013, which makes it the top grossing entertainment title in history.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

By 1992 Research in Motion (RIM) had been in business for eight years, had 16 employees, sales of about $500,000 a year, and three or four business lines. In 1998 RIM quickly followed this up with a next generation product with an 8-line display, ran on AA batteries and would last 500 hours. RIM sales were $15 billion in 2010.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry. In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million. Bottom of the sales funnel.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

The year was 1998. The company made little effort to charge for the software or community. I have saved this next story until now because it is one of my favorites, and certainly illustrates the point as well as anything I could devise from fiction. First here is a bit of the background.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

In fact, at the time (1996-1997) we offered both a downloadable product, that our customers could install on their own servers, and a “hosted-offering”, which came to be known as “On-Demand”, then the “ASP” (Application Service Provider) model, and today we call it “SaaS” (Software as a Service). The product worked.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

For this discussion, we were joined by CEOs Jared Hecht of Fundera, Joshua Reeves of ZenPayroll, Matt Rissell of TSheets, and our own Sabrina Parsons of LivePlan and Palo Alto Software. Then now into TSheets which is a subscription based software with a much different model so again thank you for having us, having me on the panel.

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 offers certain immunities for internet service providers that may lend some form of protection from allegations of copyright infringement, tortious conduct, or defamation. Ask others to share original content without changes or comments. Above all, don’t tolerate repeat offenders.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

After I left academia (too slow moving) and the consultancy company I worked for (lack of vision), four friends and I applied that puzzle-solving passion to creating software for solving supply chain puzzles. Gran’t is an international sales master, a NY Times Bestseller, speaker and self made multi millionaire.

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Tim Keane

MAY 27, 2010

In brief, my own story involves a software company called RTMS in Milwaukee.   We were fortunate enough to have customers like Boston Store, Carson’s, Penney’s, Sears, GNC – and they loved our exceptional customer service and ability to deliver a better value to their customers – and more sales and customer satisfaction to them.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 4, 2004

Adam Bosworth has an interesting post on the evolution of software and why software delivered as a service will be the business model of the future. Software delivered as a service enables that and packaged software does not. ” I have never thought about software in evolutionary terms, but it certainly makes sense.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 4, 2019

As Harvard Business School professor Susan Fournier noted in 1998 , “A brand has no objective existence at all: it is simply a collection of perceptions held in the mind of the consumer.”. The cultural code, sometimes called “cultural software,” defines how sets of images connect to our stereotypes. Semiotics can.

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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. There’s a few sites you can go to and monitor that have a constant stream of websites for sale.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Step #10 – Sorting applications by job — once applications are received, the goal is to ensure that the highest quality applications are sorted relevant to the most appropriate jobs (manually or via software). Sales and Guest Relations Manager for CIS, Eastern Europe & Greece. Olga Kovshanova_MBA_MA. Interesting!

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

So the question is, does emotion play a role in making more sales online? Before we look how emotion affects sales, we have to ask if emotion plays a role further up the marketing funnel – specifically for driving awareness and getting more reach. Emotional Design Influences Sales. 1998) – 120,000+ customers.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Discover the secrets and strategies of how your business can achieve the frictionless sale. I analyzed all the, all of the letters, put them through software tools. If you look at readability statistics or readability software, it's measured by grade level. And here's something remarkable. The writing got better over time.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Romer analyzed every fourth down that occurred in every quarter of every NFL game from 1998 to 2000. We found this out through usability testing and then added the information to the sales copy and the FAQ. We changed the USP, sales copy, and design for the website to reflect this focus on a specific category. A ton of stuff.

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ConversionXL

MAY 31, 2017

True, some companies experimented with social media as a sales channel as well. But for the most part, if you wanted to talk to a sales rep, you were filling out a form and then waiting for a phone call or an email. The first wave of messaging software arrived with ICQ (launched in 1996), followed by AIM (1997), Yahoo!

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Last December when one techie interviewed by an SFGate reporter equated the word with a racial slur, a popular industry blog suggested it be replaced with the term “Software American.”). “Do But its stock is trading at twenty-odd times the company’s annual sales.” There is no E in the P/E.

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