Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 17, 2020

In 1999 he helped found LatinWorks, an agency that has consistently bent the rules of the Hispanic market by creating thought-provoking campaigns for some of the major advertisers in the space. More about Sergio Alcocer: To find out more about Rest of The World Agency. Marketing Podcast with Sergio Alcocer. Like this show?

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The company has over 1,500 branded foodservice locations across 40 states and is best known for their Champs Chicken franchise brand which was started in 1999. Developing a culture of continued education and continuous improvement is critical if you want to retain your staff and provide them with advancement opportunities.

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Balance Sheet America Employee Programming 162

Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Mike helped Ev Williams and Jack Dorsey capitalize Twitter, and the rest is history. We started Coremetrics in 1999 selling to dot-coms. Those who make the news set the tone for the rest. Much like Cotter’s Divorce360.com, com, Twitter started out as a failure?—?with Odeo needed to pivot, it simply wasn’t working.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

You should seek to get people who are respected by others in your field and who will therefore make it easier to raise the rest of your angel round.&#. These are the people who make the early commitment to you to fund your round before having any social proof.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

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. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million. There are 20x more consumers online.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2013

Whereas I may have seen a dozen companies in 1999 with a point solution in a particular area, now I see multiples. The only way to build a successful best of breed solution is to create significant value for your customers by solving a big enough problem in a way the rest of the market can’t.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

When I started my first company in 1999 we spent more than $2 million on technology infrastructure including Sun servers & Solaris operating system, Oracle databases, EMC storage, load balancers, app servers, back-up devices, disk mirrors and on and on. I’m just listed who I perceive as the market leaders.

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Cloud Technical Review Database Semantic 343

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Coupled with my participating preferred from 1999 and 2000 I had more than $55 million of liquidation preferences. 2)&# it’s not fair to the rest of the employees who don’t get to take money out. In my first company I had to raise money in April 2001 or die. Two answers from me.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

But the Innocent backstory is on-point too – while selling their home-made smoothies at a music festival in 1999, the firm’s founders put up a sign asking punters if they should give up their day jobs to switch to the juice business and asked them to vote by placing empty cups in a ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ bin.

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Architecture Restful Customer Founder 96

Transformify

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Psychological safety is ‘‘a sense of confidence that the team will not embarrass, reject or punish someone for speaking up,” wrote Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson in a 1999 paper. This not only helps new employees: taking the time to integrate someone also makes it easier for the rest of the team.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 30, 2019

The Cheskin Research & Studio Archetype found as far back as 1999 that the six-most important factors in building trust with an ecommerce company are : Brand; Navigation; Fulfillment; Presentation; Up-to-date technology; Security logos. more years than the rest. ZMET Technique In Marketing Research from Taylan Demirkaya.

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Jeff Hilimire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Sometime in the summer of 1999, I received an email from Raj telling me to get ready to answer the phone because a guy he’d been talking to in Queenstown, NZ, was interested in us building a website for him. (Uh, Raj and me in New Zealand in 1999 wearing our Sunday best. Raj canceled the rest of his trip and moved to Atlanta.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

One of the successful investments was a company called Nigenisis, which ended becoming a public company in 1999. I was an early investor in a company called Harmonics which ended creating Guitar Hero … that got bought by Activision and then the rest of the company got bought by MTV and they created RockBand. “.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

Austin Startup

AUGUST 11, 2017

I founded Volusion in 1999 out of my childhood bedroom, and stayed on as CEO until 2011, when I left for a few years to focus on my family. The wrong word can mean the rest of it doesn’t work. Here’s what we did and I hope that you find inspiration in our process. And like writing technical code, each word counts.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

App is one step forward, two steps back – In 1999 I launched my first company, BuildOnline, a SaaS-based (back then we were ASP’s) content management platform for large-scale engineering and construction projects. But I’m with Jason Calacanis. We’ve already seen it once in the PC era.

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Flash Mobile Application Development Cloud 326

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

A study based out of Babson College via The Diana Project looked at venture capital investments in women between the years 1999 and 2014. Unfortunately, Babson also found that the number of women involved in venture firms has dropped; as of 2014, it was 6 percent, compared to 10 percent in 1999. What about “leaning in”?

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Venture Capital Lean Cofounder Technical Review 82

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

The world has changed much since I started my first company in 1999. Many people at a young startup are trying to manage their finances like the rest of their user base. Turn Your Organization Inside Out. This is part of my ongoing posts on Startup Advice.

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Customer Technical Review Software Review Mexico 280

David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

In 1999, we sold that business and I started angel investing. For the rest of our lives, we’ll all remember this global pandemic that changed everything. I started my first business in 1993, right in the middle of the recession, because I didn’t know any better. I didn’t really see how it would affect me. Or even working for one?

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Founder Valuation Startup IP 174

Growthink Blog

AUGUST 29, 2010

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. and the rest of the world has allowed for phenomena like an Indian manufacturing company hiring U.S. Almost completely shrouded in the anemic U.S. startups and small businesses.

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Agile VC

MAY 7, 2014

Alibaba’s Genesis Alibaba was founded in 1999 by Jack Ma and 17 other colleagues, and like most startups they began as a small group working out of Ma’s apartment in Hangzhou. I’ll first start with a brief background on the genesis of Alibaba and a top level sizing of the company and its underlying businesses. ==.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

The rest, as they say, is history. This is my 2nd time trying this, first time was in 1999. It was a $4.7M round which closed in November 2003, and the pre-money valuation between $10 million and $15 million. So from start to finish our fundraise took roughly four to five months. Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2014

” You now can do whatever you want with the rest of your life. We figured we could easily live for the rest of our life on consulting income and what we’d managed to save, even if none of the angel investments I was making turned into anything. This was 1995 and the path from there has been powerful and dramatic.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 7, 2017

We took Interliant public in 1999 on the second attempt (the SEC didn’t clear the filing until a week after the end of the first road show, our first of many misfires with Merrill Lynch, who was our lead banker.) I didn’t realize it yet, but that morning fundamentally shaped the way I would think about the rest of my working life.

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SEC New York Venture Capital Partner 148

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

AUGUST 27, 2011

Later, 99Designs was spun off and the rest is history. That’s the story of Matt Mickiewicz the founder of Sitepoint, a site which, back in 1999, was the first online forum for web designers and developers. The design contests were buried in the forums so Mickiewicz knows that he was onto something.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

The rest of the entrepreneur interviews Pat does are very worthwhile listens also. They were critical to winning the rest of the market, which largely followed their moves. Cracking the code on product-market fit is “the only thing that matters” according to one of our largest and most helpful investors at data.world, Pat Ryan.

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Software Review Sales Cofounder Analytics 48

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999. And it’s more important than ever to communicate to their customers, prospective customers, and the rest of their industry.”.

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Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

The CIC, founded in 1999, is located adjacent to MIT and has more than 100,000 sq ft of space for nearby startups that qualify to be housed there. I also had lunch there which was served buffet style with the rest of the office, which apparently costs $5 / day and you just let the office manager know in advance so they can plan numbers.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2014

The collapse of the Internet bubble was not kind to us and by 2005 it was clear that our second fund – raised in 1999 – was a disaster, and our third fund – raised in 2000 – was off to a very rocky start. Fred can ask me for help on anything he wants for the rest of his life and I will always be there for him.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Your suggestion for picking a niche assumes you’ve thought through the rest of the Market Type alternatives. Back in 1999, it all ended very bad. It is related to business model. Not sure I would make the same definitive statements about best bet for Market Type. Great quote.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

My number one goal in 1999 when my wife (fiancé at the time) Abby and I started our firm was to create a business that allowed us to raise and support our family on our own terms—just like my parents’ business allowed them to do for more than 30 years. My parents were also small business owners. Grossman, Frugal Confessions, LLC ! #11-

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Mucker Lab

MARCH 19, 2015

I took it upon myself this week to at least try to solve the first question (the rest will come in the coming weeks) using publicly available (both “leaked” and “released”) data to reconstruct Uber’s topline revenue. How exactly is it doing? How is it worth $40B+? What brand of pomade does Travis Kalanick put in his hair? Much better.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

People ask me if innovation can flourish in places like Africa and my response is that I encounter innovation everywhere there, when people are forced to innovate to survive, often with scarce resources.

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

I can explain why, but if you saw what Brad Feld or Alexander Muse or Fred Wilson or Joel Spolsky or (my favorite take) Andrew Warner write about why they dont sign NDA s, you can skip the rest of this post. Im Anil Dash, and Ive blogged half a million words here since 1999, writing about how culture is made. Comments (HTML is okay).

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NDA Technical Review Non-Compete San Francisco 52

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Subject line like it’s 1999! It’s common sense really: if you don’t write something that gets the customer in then how are the going to read the rest of it? Here are four interesting points that will help you understand what to do and what to test when considering elements of your emails.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Once I started my venture capital career in 1999 after being on Wall Street and an entrepreneur, no one was going to come in the way of my doing what I loved and knew I was good at. I considered it my right and privilege.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 17, 2022

When I started with SEO, believe it or not was in 1999 long time ago. And if you can show that initial uptick, then Google will give you the rest of the traffic and kind of have to help you go along that trajectory help you grow along that trajectory. And, um, even back then we knew where the puck was going.

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SEO Technical Review Metadata Social Media 89

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. You need to build genuine relationships with these portfolio startup founders as well as trust with them and the rest will follow. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud.

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