Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

We rode the bubble wave to a successful outcome in 2000 , and after moving away for a few years which included a stint at business school , I returned back to Boston in 2004, and it felt like the web entrepreneurial community had almost entirely scattered after the crash. Today the landscape is very different from 2004.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. The one major thing that Twitter doesn’t seem to have figured out quite yet is that platform thing or at least how to encourage a bunch of 3rd-party developers to build meaningful add-on products.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. As much as it opens you up to negative feedback, including the exit survey can provide you with extra insight as to how you can improve your product, your service, or overall offer. image source.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. As much as it opens you up to negative feedback, including the exit survey can provide you with extra insight as to how you can improve your product, your service, or overall offer. image source.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. As much as it opens you up to negative feedback, including the exit survey can provide you with extra insight as to how you can improve your product, your service, or overall offer. image source.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 3, 2011

In the tech industry, the great Internet bubble inflated between 1999 and 2000 and deflated (or popped) in 2001. However, entrepreneurs just put their heads down and continued to accelerate the current web revolution which started around 2004 with “ Web 2.0 &# being articulated by Tim O’Reilly.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. As much as it opens you up to negative feedback, including the exit survey can provide you with extra insight as to how you can improve your product, your service, or overall offer. image source.

Retention 98

Retention Customer Developer Programming 98

500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. In the past ten years there have been several dramatic changes in venture capital.

Silicon Valley 74

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

My Story: The public coming out for my first company, BuildOnline, was in early 2000. We had scrambled to get a product to market, built our first website, rapidly hired a technology team, raised our seed round of capital ($1.5 We started building 4 products so that our end-to-end, supply-chain services would be complete (MVP?

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The product/service did not satisfy any need in the market. Many entrepreneurs with the enthusiasm to test their idea, downplay this aspect, with the conviction that they can persuade their target audience to buy their product or use their services, which, as we see, does not end up happening. That the product is not friendly.

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Kupietzky held a variety of management roles in marketing, sales and product management at world-class technology companies: Digital Insight (Intuit), Loudcloud/Opsware (Hewlett-Packard) and Siebel Systems (Oracle). Mr. Geleerd has been a member of YPO since 2000. He began his career as a consultant with McKinsey & Co.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 4, 2011

One the factors I like to hammer home to people when they create any kind of information, whether it’s blog or website content, membership content, or any kind of paid info product, is not to underestimate how much of your audience truly are beginners. Everyone starts as a beginner. All these lessons can be applied to your situation.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. The second is distribution —the ability to get product into the hands of customers. Plenty of headroom there!

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 15, 2009

The masses have grown weary of the blog “fad” just as they grew weary of the “email” fad in the late 90s, the “internet” fad in 2000, MySpace and Friendster in 2007/2008, and how they’ll grow tired of the Facebook and Twitter fads in 2010 and move on to something else. When a product is released, almost everyone blogs about it.

Software Review 49

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 30, 2015

Would you be surprised to know that almost half of the dot com companies founded when the boom started in 1996 were still around in 2004--four years after the peak of the NASDAQ? Because most internet business concepts were not capable of productively employing tens of millions of dollars of venture capital does not mean they were bad ideas."

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 24, 2012

The multitude of friends, fans and the likes on Facebook as well as the fact that Facebook is a productivity killer, makes people to scroll through posts rather than read them. You can simply get the viewer in the mood with an abstract image or a metaphor, or it can showcase the company’s products/headquarters etc.

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BeyondVC

JULY 23, 2006

Fred Wilson has a great post on remembering the old wounds from the last bubble in 2000. This is a vibrant area for discusssion – we never know the real answer as hindsight is 20/20 but it reminds me of a post I wrote back in March 2004 called Thoughts from PC Forum – going into attack mode.

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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. Ironically our business started to perform very will by 2004 but by then management had lost the dream of a huge upside. We managed the business because we felt responsible since we raised money.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

The show inspired us to create a product that would help an individual learn something quickly and in small bites. This idea of snackable content format pivoted to a video product in June 2016. Well, we’re a B2B marketing agency that specializes in services and intangible products. Photo Credit: Anurag Dwivedi.

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

I have shared many of these thoughts in earlier posts like " The web-based platform " last October and " Web-based businesses circa 2004." " Web 1999/2000. Building product, marketing $ to acquire users. Critical Mass. GoToMarket Philosophy. If you build it, they will come. Release early and release often.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. The one major thing that Twitter doesn’t seem to have figured out quite yet is that platform thing or at least how to encourage a bunch of 3rd-party developers to build meaningful add-on products.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. Big Data meets travel…in 2000. Magical, really. TripAdvisor’s History: Two Big Pivots.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2014

I’m a child of the 1970s, who was routinely promised flying cars in the future, and wrote school essays about what life would be like in the year 2000. When the first DARPA Grand Challenge, a competition to build an autonomous car to complete a 150-mile route, was held in 2004, the concept seemed audacious and it was.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Your goal is to increase the top end of the funnel (more people using the free product) and increase the rate of conversion to paid. How did you determine the right price points for your product? They never did any PR or marketing to get their videos to first get shown on the news during the 2000 election. It changed everything.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Consumer Products. Paper & Forest Products. 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. Chemicals & Allied Products.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. ignited the current trend by adopting a dual-class voting structure before its IPO in 2004. Enlarge Image Close.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

In 2004 I began blogging. I got out of the university in early 2000 and I never went on to a full-time job, so it’s always been an online business for me. In fact, I based myself in Toronto for a couple months over the summer there and did a product launch while I was there. This is me at Niagara Falls. I’m a big fan of tennis.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

But none of them matter if the product is harder to use, since most people simply won’t care enough or get enough benefit from long-term features if a shorter-term alternative is available. deprecated the old feature-complete product (ACS 3.4) before finishing the new product (ACS 4.x); During this year they.

Software Review 79

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 18, 2014

I produced my first eBook in 2004 or so and now feature ten, including some I’ve licensed from other writers. My blog posts are typically between 1000-2000 words which is much longer than I used to write when I had written posts. These posts are generally 2000+ words (and have gone as high as over 5000 words).

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 12, 2020

Brian's philosophy of building and designing both products and organizations is based on two things: trust and love. To build products that are healthy for human beings and the communities they inhabit. Now start to ask yourself, when I'm designing products, let's look at these principles, let's measure them. So talk about that.

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conversionxl.com

OCTOBER 31, 2011

For one thing people will tell you what they WANT to pay—which is obviously much less than what your product or service is actually WORTH. What will work for you depends on your industry, product and customer. Well, in eight studies published from 1987 to 2004 charm prices ($49, $79, $1.49 Don’t ask, can’t tell.

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David Teten

JUNE 7, 2011

After studying Biotechnolo gy at London University, he worked in over 18 countries on the production side of the film business, setting up desert camps in Jordan, managing huge projects and teams from India to Argentina. In 2004, Roo founded we:nited magazine – a youth politics magazine and website.

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