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”. 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. (Internet). Evernote, Dropbox). Myspace, Facebook). 2008 – “RIP, Good Times”.

Widget 60

Widget Sales Cycle Social Network Government 60

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

M y company had raised a seed round of capital in late 1999 even before either of us were full time in the company (ominous side note: on the way to pitch our seed investor, Delta Partners, a man walking right in front of me died of a massive heart attack making me late to the meeting. I did all of the sales myself.

Founder 299

Founder Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 299

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. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. Bottom of the sales funnel. Morning in VC.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

The concept of “economic moats” came from a 1999 Fortune article by Warren Buffett: The key to investing is [.] An effective moat doesn’t require Amazon’s distribution network or Microsoft’s monopolistic software strategy. Social networks have their own switching costs. Network effects. Software adoption.

Non-Compete 122

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 11, 2013

We connect them to hundreds of thousands of potential new customers using email marketing, social networks, and display ad campaigns. It’s true they sell a lot of good software, guides, books etc with steep discounts. Borderless world. Their numbers are impressive. In only 18 months, it went from 0 to 500 000 customers.

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Campaign Estonia Social Media Viral 95

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

million in 1999, Zappos is now worth $1 billion. The quota should accommodate the sales targets, and ensure that there are enough items in stock to cover unforeseen demand and any potential lag in production for the following month. Here are a few options: Use available software programs. Go though social network.

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Small Business Non-Compete Europe Philippines 60

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!

Lead Generation 91

Lead Generation Channel IP Conversion 91

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Marc Andreessen: So the computer industry started in 1950 and basically ran for 50 years with the same model, which was a model where all of the new computers, all the new technology, all the new software started out being sold for the highest prices to the biggest organizations. So originally the customer was the Department of Defense.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

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. Think about it.

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Cloud Technical Review Database Semantic 343