YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2017

Overcoming Challenges of Growing Globally. But going global can be an intimidating prospect for some. There has been a tremendous revolution in software in the last 5+ years that has brought down the cost of setting up a full service, secure e-commerce store to roughly the cost of an bottle of wine (per month).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. They need a combination of capital and experience to separate from the rest of the pack – the low cost of starting a business means it is even more vital to become the market leader more quickly.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Market Type affects your spending and sales ramp after you reach product/market fit. Your best bet is probably taking an existing market and serving a portion of it better than the competition, through lower cost or a different set of features. Back in 1999, it all ended very bad. End of theory.&# See if you can get to scale.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2018

In 2012 she was announced as one of the Young Global Leaders by World Economic Forum. A lot of great minds have amazing products and ideas but not the right (global) network. I am a global citizen, and I understand the global marketplace. My global network, for sure. Women in business are on the rise.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

They all went away; they got rolled up in 1999 and 2000 into these too-big-to-fail banking operations," Davidson tells us. IPOs by year, 1980-2011, with pre-IPO last 12-month sales less than (small firms) or greater than (large firms) $50 million (2009 purchasing power). Brown & Sons, Montgomery Securities. The question is why?

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Getting this right is extremely important, given that according to the Pareto’s rule in marketing, 80% of product sales come from 20% of products. Collaborative filtering in eCommerce product recommendations was first implemented at scale by Amazon (they filed their initial patent for item-to-item collaborative filtering as early as 1999).

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. The first year of revenue (1999) was $4 million – a remarkable achievement. Akamai: The Present.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

For creatives, it is a global stage for creativity where title and experience don’t matter. In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. After paying moving costs and rent I was left with less than $50 in my bank account. Thanks to Mike Samson, crowdSPRING. #3 3 – I was Fired Twice.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Globalization has increased the level of competition and introduced more turmoil to the business environment. If you want to take your business to the next level, you’ll need to be open to the current realities of the new global economy, and get more creative. million in 1999, Zappos is now worth $1 billion.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

I also wanted to future proof my business – to position it for growth, and ultimately sale, so giving it my name was out of the question. The original company name was Scene on TV (going back to 1999), and I expanded into movies, and the name was also confusing to people (Scene instead of Seen). So why Market Expertise?

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

about Moshe Lichtman, and why he is one of few men or women capable of leading an Israeli startup to global billions. He worked his way up the corporate ladder; in 1998 he became VP of the Digital TV platform strategy, which did not pan out, and in 1999 he found an opportunity in Microsoft Internet (MSN) international.

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Venture Capital New Zealand Startup 100

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Of course articles like these are going to inflame people because not everybody who is running their own business (or aspires to) wants to believe that you need to go all out to compete and win on a global scale. But … global tech does require an absolute, singular commitment level. We were based in London.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Has he randomly cost you a small fortune in unintended consequences? Keith Martino is head of CMI, a global consultancy founded in 1999 that customizes leadership and sales development initiatives. He has also published three sales handbooks, Get Results, Results Now, and “ Selling to Americans “.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And now all of a sudden you have got this global market of all these early adopters that have smartphones connected to the Internet, and they can just pick up their things and run with them. And they don’t buy sales-force automation software, they rent on Salesforce.com. Who do we call and where do we send the check?”

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Austin Startup

MAY 3, 2017

Today’s economy is substantially more freelance for one, but as it pertains to technology and innovative entrepreneurship, we find ourselves in an era that is bringing tech to traditional industries that have yet to have fully embraced what the internet has caused: data, connectivity, globalization, scalability, and efficiency. Imagine that.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

For public investors in Facebook to achieve returns comparable to those of Microsoft shareholders, Facebook would need to reach a market cap of $500 trillion, a number that well exceeds the total global market cap of all listed stocks. In fact, if you exclude the Dot Com Bubble of 1999-2000, they have been steady for nearly thirty years.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

has sales offices throughout Korea and over 1,000 retailers carrying its product line, in addition to a local formulation facility. Prestigious London-based Monocle magazine, a global briefing journal covering international affairs, business, culture and design, has chosen Haifa as the city with the most promising business potential for 2011.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

The parallels to the music industry are too obvious even though the industry players, the medium and the cost structures are different. Don’t spend like it’s 1999. We have the inability to hire engineering in Silicon Valley or brand sales people in NYC but the country still has very high structural long-term unemployment.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 31, 2017

A study by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor found that 73 percent of entrepreneurs fund their ventures through their own savings, an average of $15,000. Typically this includes the mortgage, property taxes, and management costs (if the investor decides to hire a property management company). Real estate investment. billion dollars.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

While the global financial crash of 2008 and the resulting Great Recession initially slowed job growth in Silicon Valley, the meteoric rise of smart phones and social media helped the tech industry as a whole to power ahead despite the near collapse of the global economy. A Variation on the Global Economic Crash of 2008?

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Economic Value (EcV) is the value of short and long-term revenue and cost savings. An example of the implication: Don't expect short term sales/revenue from any social participation. The serious point is that when we choose to invest in Social Media, it comes at a cost. The opportunity cost. There is no Do intent!

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Daniel O’Keefe at the University of Illinois collected together the results of 107 different studies on sidedness and persuasion conducted over 50 years which, between them, recruited 20,111 participants (O’Keefe, 1999, Communication Yearbook, 22, pp. Upsell a product that cost 60% less. Image credit. Image credit.

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