Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

The new name, Calxeda , pronounced “Cal-zeh-dah,” is a derivative of the Latin for “Smooth-Stone.” Calxeda is on track with its business and ARM-based product development plans, moving toward providing first samples of its industry-changing technologies in 2011. This is within our reach with technologies we are developing at Calxeda.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

An article on growth and marketing in the middle of a crisis—the current one or any other—can seem tone deaf. This post surveys what people have done in the past—and what marketing leaders are doing now—to make it through tough times and thrive in the post-crisis era. Tim Stewart, trsdigital. But nothing gets better if we stand still.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2010

We learned this weekend that it was named after his East Hampton home. Get your product/market fit working before you ramp up your costs (or raise too much money). The Greycroft event was a 10 out of 10 so I’ve diligently taken notes. And market your brand, not your personality.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Fortunately I was mostly a technology consultant, which meant that I coded computers, designed databases and planned system integration projects. One of our core tasks was “market analysis,&# which consistent of: market sizing, market forecasts, competitive analysis and then instructing customers on which direction to take.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. It became a huge kerfuffle with many VC partners writing to thank me for the post, which exposed those that gave their industry a bad name. And then I was mortified – Valleywag figured out which firm had treated me the worst and published their names. It got worse.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

HomeAway is another one of our five tech IPOs in the last five years. Instead of crying in their beers about it, Cotter and Tom Ball at Austin Ventures decided what to do next and came up with Small Ponds, which later became Whale Shark Media and then RetailMeNot (named after its largest digital property). No matter the name?—?the

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Sometimes with the help of start-up incubators, like the University of Texas’ Austin Technology Incubator (ATI). Before this, it was housed, since inception in 1999, within the walls of ATI, where the Wi-Fi Alliance and ATI built a unique, collaborative relationship. They thought the market could be significant if IEEE 802.11

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Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

Despite Kenya has been named as the fasted growing payments market in Africa, there is still a lot to be done to develop the local business angel community. Sam Gichuru is a lynchpin in Nairobi’s startup community due to his leadership of nailab, a major incubator and accelerator. Sam Gichuru CEO at nailab.

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Pascal's View

JULY 1, 2014

Can you name five benign dictators who have ruled successfully for any meaningful period of time (non-fiction)? Can you name five successful, long serving CEO’s (excluding Warren Buffett ) whose governance histories are free of the “high-beta” associated with outliers such as Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs ? It’s not easy.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

Some wait 5-7 years but usually this is because it’s proving more difficult to raise a new fund due to market conditions or the lack of returns in their current fund. Fred Wilson also wrote a sophisticated analysis of why he believes the market must normalize to smaller amount of money going into VC firms.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

One doesn’t need to carry out thorough market research to understand that a customer will be more willing to make a purchase at a shop where they feel they’re getting maximum help in finding what they’re looking for as fast and easy as possible. Popular products”, “Customers who bought this also bought…”, etc.).

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The company, which the founder cleverly named “Stitch Fix,” had a remarkably unique offering compared to other women’s fashion experiences. Despite Benchmark’s strong association with ecommerce during the late 1990’s due to the success of companies like eBay, we have not been particularly active in ecommerce in the past several years.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 29, 2010

stock market performance and the drumbeat of negativity that passes as business reporting these days has been the massive growth in U.S. By way of anecdote, from the time Dave Lavinsky and I founded Growthink in 1999 through 2008, more than 95% of our firm’s clients and investors were U.S. Almost completely shrouded in the anemic U.S.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Pursue Global Markets 2. Pursue Global Markets. Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia’s share of the world’s Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%. trillion, by 2020, equivalent to bringing a whole new market the size of Brazil online. These are fantastic new markets for U.S.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

In 1999, David Weinberger, a technologist and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto , wrote, “Personalization: the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them so that we can feel that somewhere there’s a piece of software that loves us for who we are.” Show reviews of those products.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 17, 2022

How SEO Has Evolved Over The Years written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Dale Bertrand. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Dale Bertrand. 4:56] Could you talk about something you’ve written about — the end of technical SEO? [5:43]

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 30, 2022

How To Build Trust, Increase Authority, And Rank High With Google written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Dale Bertrand. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Dale Bertrand. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Like this show?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

I left a great job, Director of Marketing for Snapple, to start my own speaking business. For buyers, it is a place to post a creative project, name their own price, watch the world contribute ideas and choose the one they like best. In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

I’ve had the opportunity to work with many impressive teams and product managers from a broad range of leading tech companies, and this has helped me to get a better sense of the what is essential to the role, and to success. At the time, Word for Mac was a relatively small market. The combination is amazing.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. This service is temporary unavailable due to system maintenance. First Name. Loading… Markets. Loading… Tech. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. more in Tech. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. View All Search Results » |. The Wall Street Journal. My Journal.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. All of you people who haven’t seen my blog, please remember my name or that website address. I changed the name, by the way, to MTGParadise.com.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

After thinking about how much I enjoyed helping her business grow and learning all I could about business structure, marketing, SEO and social media to name a few, I decided to take these new skills and help other small business owners. Thanks to Sean Matula, Small Business Consulting Strategic Marketing ! #2-

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous…For All Involved. In late 2015, many public technology companies saw a significant retrenchment in their share prices primarily as a result of a reduction in valuation multiples. With the public markets down, these groups began writing down Unicorn valuations.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2016

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). Category names should be 1-2 words long and written in plain English. This is in part due to design prototypes. they match the prototype).

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Uber recently named Dara Khosrowshahi as its new CEO. For decades, technology entrepreneurs have had an affinity for pirates. It may sound cool to say that you’re disrupting a market, but to the rest of the world, you sound like you’re focused on destroying the old rather than creating the new.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

In 2003 as part of my master’s degree I reviewed over 50 empirical studies in typography and found a definitive answer. Part 2 reviews the evidence for and against the legibility of serif and sans serif typefaces. 5; in Lund, 1999 ). Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). Introduction. Part 1 provides typographical definitions.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

House of Representatives’ Subcommittee on Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship, and Capital Markets (Committee on Financial Services) hearing on “Going Public: SPACs, Direct Listings, Public Offerings, and the Need for Investor Protections” May 2021. IPO market. In the first quarter of 2021 alone, SPACs raised $87.9

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

I spent my days meeting companies, figuring out what areas of the market interested me and trying to get a sense for how VCs thought about fair valuations. I started showing my partners more deals that I found interesting and doing loads of analysis on the future of markets I thought were ripe for disruption. The market had tanked.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Juniper Networks Inc acquired Altor Networks, a company specializing in security for virtualization technology. Virtualization technology is increasingly in demand as large corporations try to cut back on hardware in their data centers. MONOCLE MAGAZINE NAMES HAIFA INVESTMENT HOTSPOT.

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

Fundraising is always difficult for all founders; the median PE/VC fund sources and reviews 87 companies before investing in 1. Technically yes. And the “Uber of Greece” is in Greece – not exactly the next big market. When I was running an Israel-based company in 1999-2001, my location was a significant barrier.

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2019

It’s pretty easy to forget how much a new technology changes our lives once it’s adopted. Sure, some new technologies are like shooting stars, but some change everything forever. The problem was this created a dangerous idolatry of any innovation big tech companies launched at us. Welcome to the Zuckerberg Dynasty.

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