ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Nowadays nearly every online shop utilizes some sort of product recommendation engine, which is no wonder, as these systems, if set up and configured properly can significantly boost revenues, CTRs, conversions, and other important metrics. Popular products”, “Customers who bought this also bought…”, etc.).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. He later changed the name to Facebook. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. million.

Initial Public Offering 277

Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 277

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

In 1999 I was in Japan doing a strategy project for the board of directors of Sony. It’s important to quantify the value of your product or service. With no numbers as proof points few people will buy your products. Numbers are important. I’d rather make decisions with uncertain numbers than no numbers.

Investment Bankers 415

Investment Bankers Mobile Software Review Japan 415

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). I’m typing this from the lawn of Alan Patricof’s “Greycroft” home in East Hampton – my first time in the Hamptons. I’m going to save that for a future blog post.

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PR Technical Review Portfolio Customer Development 279

ithacaVC

OCTOBER 30, 2014

The resulting product adapt-N has become the initial offering of Agronomic Technology. There are actually four people named on the IP and it was a multi-disciplinary project…This was the first product to come out of our department.”. Today that same type of utility can be executed at a very small percentage of that cost.

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Technical Review Technology Software Review IP 65

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. 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.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

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. My company name is 3 Leaf Tea. The name is from when tea leaves get picked there’s often one two or three leaves and a bud.

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Naming Entrepreneur Green LLC 97

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Improve the whole customer experience, as well as the product. Back in 1999, Amazon patented a feature and changed their own process and on-line commerce forever: One-click purchasing, versus re-entering name, address, and credit card information for every transaction.

Artificial Inteligence 205

Artificial Inteligence Reputation Viral America 205

Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

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 The market for the product simply wasn’t a good one.

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B2C Austin Cofounder IPO 51

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

I kept pointing to the artificial gains in the Nasdaq in 1999 and said, “just because you bought in Feb ’99 and sold in Sept ’99 for a large gain doesn’t meant the asset was correctly priced.&# My message to everybody at the time, “Sell! .&# It is the new calling card. It is slowly becoming Florida Condos.

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Florida Technical Review San Antonio Los Angeles 299

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

Back in 1999 when I first raised venture capital I had zero knowledge of what a fair term sheet looked like or how to value my company. I told them that True Ventures had stuck to their brand name and submitted a totally clean term sheet. It was accept the terms or go into bankruptcy so we took the money. No gotchas.

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Valuation Liquidation Preference Pre-Money Valuation Term Sheet 405

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2014

That’s because every hour you spend managing your employer-provided health insurance is another hour you are not spending managing and improving your product or service. suppliers of personalized employee health benefits, Extend Health (1999) and Zane Benefits (2006). Develop a defined contribution solution.

Software Review 224

Software Review Employee Retention Government 224

www.volkside.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Great ramp-up experience on the new Flickr photo page » < Blog < Home How to name your product, service, or startup. Great ramp-up experience on the new Flickr photo page » < Blog < Home How to name your product, service, or startup. When creating something new it is essential to name it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. He later changed the name to Facebook. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. million.

Initial Public Offering 297

Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 297

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

I saw it myself in 1999-2002 when it was hard to charge for my product because all of my competitors raised large rounds of capital and were giving away their products free fueled by large VC rounds. Irrational prices and over investment in your competitors hurts your ability to build healthy businesses.

Venture Capital 269

Venture Capital Balance Sheet Early Stage Software Review 269

ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

How their product leaders and CMOs embrace the change adjusting product/marketing strategies based on new technologies. In AI implications on Marketing and Analytics , I placed my considerations explaining how and why Artificial Intelligence (AI) will shape the next generation of Analytics and Marketing SaaS products.

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Customer Marketing Artificial Inteligence Clickthrough 92

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

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. In its decade-long trek to making Wi-Fi ® a household name, the Wi-Fi Alliance has certified more than 9,000 products for Wi-Fi usage and cross-brand interoperability.

Incubator 54

Incubator Technical Review Austin Texas 54

ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

While the term was new, many of the ideas aligned with “ permission marketing ,” which Seth Godin brought into marketers’ consciousness in 1999 and contrasted with “interruption marketing.” The most underrated piece of marketing advice is that you’ve got to name something,” Drift’s Dave Gerhardt told Leadfeeder. “If

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Naming Conversion Flash Cofounder 119

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

For many years preceding 1999, the 1982 vintage was known as the industry’s worst vintage year. However, none were based in the Silicon Valley and are probably unfamiliar names to today’s practitioners. There are five key risks in any deal: Market, Product (a/k/a technology), Management, Business Model, and Capital.

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Venture Capital SBIC Technical Review Silicon Valley 70

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. He later changed the name to Facebook. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. million.

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Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 148

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 22, 2013

Organized by the National University of Singapore (NUS) Entrepreneurship Society and aimed at encouraging youth entrepreneurship, Start-Up@Singapore started in 1999 as a business plan but has now grown to be much bigger. Preliminary submissions end on 8th February, 2013 – register for it here.

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Singapore Brunei Pakistan Norway 157

YoungUpstarts

MAY 4, 2012

Parents are always willing to spend on their children, so perhaps its not a surprise that one of 2012′s largest growing small businesses is a quirky little product line – Cuddle Covers ( www.cuddlecovers.com ), a series of playful pillow covers that turns a simple child’s sleep aid into a cutesy little soft toy.

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Distribution Naming Small Business Product 145

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

By contrast, Staples closed down some underperforming facilities but increased its workforce by 10% during the recession, mainly to support the high-end product categories and services it introduced. Use that intelligence to inform product portfolio and investment choices.”. Where do your consumers fall? Premium-brand market leaders [.]

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Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

AUGUST 27, 2011

Hahaha, I laugh because later in his talk he mentions another website with a long name. Mickiewicz saw this and decided to build a MVP product within SitePoint. One idea that never took off was NameMyThingey.com where you can crowdsource business names. The name brainstormers got pissed because of this.

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EC2 Social Network Distribution Demand 53

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. He later changed the name to Facebook. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. million.

Entrepreneur 263

Entrepreneur Initial Public Offering California .Net 263

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. He later changed the name to Facebook. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. million.

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Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 295

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

The video above shows Billie Holiday (one of my favorite singers) singing “Strange Fruit”, a song that Time manazine named, in 1999, the “song of the century” The song is a protest against racism. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

After AOL acquired Netscape in 1999, the browser wars ended and browser innovation stopped for many years. In 1996, there was no social networking, no video, no search that worked, no RSS, and no Twitter to name a few. In fact, the search products of the day didn’t work very well, so people didn’t use them very much.

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CTO Internet Illinois Cofounder 74

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Article: Behind Every Great Product. I titled the paper, “Behind Every Great Product” and it was inspired by the classic Good Product Manager / Bad Product Manager by Ben Horowitz. The paper proved popular and helped many teams to get a better understanding of just what product was all about.

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Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

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%. How easy / possible is it for global customers to buy your product – to purchase your service? • Pursue Global Markets. 7 Companies in China have raised more than $1 billion in an IPO this year.

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Africa Brazil China India 104

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.” increase in product views.

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Web Software Review Jordan Technical Review 48

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 6, 2015

One of the big challenges for many new start-ups is separating themselves from the competition and spreading awareness of the brand/product/service. The positive reception of the brand increased to the point of being named Tech Company of the Year by USA Today.

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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. In addition to market concerns, I had the unique experience of working with Dan Nordstrom and the team at Nordstrom.com in August of 1999.

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eCommerce Technical Review North America San Francisco 62

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2012

A big turning point in Target’s success was adding affordable versions of designer merchandise made by big-name designers like Issac Mizrahi, Mossimo Giannulli, Proenza Schouler, Rodarte, and many more. AMF’s decision to streamline production and slash the workforce resulted in labor strikes, low quality motorcycles, and declining sales.

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Bankruptcy Texas Naming Venture Capital 195

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. He later changed the name to Facebook. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. million.

Initial Public Offering 221

Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 221

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

Now my digital products, blog, classes and workshops serves women all over the world teaching them how to use yoga as a tool to juggle their busy life and kids without burning out! At the same time it seemed that whenever I would have a conversation with a friend, family member, colleague, manager, executive–you name it!–about

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Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Green 91

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Other companies in the 1999 PDA market were Palm, the original innovator, as well Microsoft and Hewlett Packard.

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