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How to Radically Stand Out with Brand Marketing

ConversionXL

Jeff Bezos’s private space technology company Blue Origin was founded back in 2000. He was swiftly followed by Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic in 2004. Studies show that only 5% of B2B buyers are ready to buy. At a startup, this can be as simple as defining why the founder started the company in the first place.

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The Golden Age of the Boston Internet Entrepreneur

Genuine VC

There are a couple classic archetypes of internet/software founders, including the genius college student cooking up something quirky but ultimately disruptive in his dorm room who launches his company straight out of undergrad. Today the landscape is very different from 2004.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

Well, we’re a B2B marketing agency that specializes in services and intangible products. I started a consulting firm called Global Marketing Resources, LLC in 2000 as source for additional income while I was a corporate executive. As founder Craig Walker remarked, sometimes a great name just can go unused. 27- Unusual way.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Business Services (B2B).

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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

Both Sides of the Table

My Story: The public coming out for my first company, BuildOnline, was in early 2000. Everybody thought the real substance was going to come from B2B eCommerce players that would deliver “real value&# by disintermediating supply chains … blah, blah, blah. We were it in Europe: B2B. They always need something new.

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April 4-Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO

David Teten

We will discuss liquidity options appropriate for a wide range of people with private company stock, including private equity funds, venture capitalists, angels, founders, and employees with options. David Weild IV, formerly Vice Chairman of The NASDAQ Stock Market Mr. Weild is the founder of Capital Markets Advisory Partners.