SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 I understand his frustration.

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Open Source Business Model Technical Cofounder Southern California 150

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2017

John Imlay of MSA occasionally took me on road shows with analysts to talk about his new acquisition Peachtree Software. Two of them made some major product directional changes based on the founder’s judgment and the feedback he was getting from partners and customers. I got the message. Yes, that has multiple meanings!) Do the math.

Silicon Valley 48

Silicon Valley Atlanta Software Review Early Stage 48

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. Customer segmentation is essential , not just to identify where buyers pull back but also to “reveal products primarily purchased by people still willing to pay full price.

Marketing 121

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. Startups needed millions of dollars of funding just to get their first product out the door to customers. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble.

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Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

One of the greatest threats to long-term success is when companies aren’t vigilant enough about responding to the changes in their market—whether it’s by failing to spot product or channel fatigue, acknowledge new competition, make needed updates to products or marketing adjustments in a timely fashion, or embrace new technology coming online.

Technical Review 127

Technical Review Algorithm Channel Analytics 127

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round).

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Or this: “Apple doesn’t do loyalty because they produce outrageously awesome products.” If you own an Apple product, you know what I’m talking about. Local businesses in Singapore report up to 5x increase in repeat business , up to 7x increase in fan acquisition rates and 10x increase in word of mouth.

Programming 150

Programming Turkey Social Media Redemption 150

K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

After the acquisition of SneakerLabs, he served as the Vice-President of Interactive Technologies for E.piphany. Technical founders, or founders who are capable of building their own product, with at least one founder who is capable of leading and building the team. Manu Kumar is Founder and Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures.

San Francisco 48

San Francisco Early Stage Portfolio Software Engineering 48

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Getting a quote for LTL shipping on large volumes of products is a more cumbersome process than getting quotes for small, domestic parcels. on products. Building your business around a light product could save your company thousands of dollars per year in shipping. If that’s the case, give your customers that option.

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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 115

Retention Customer Developer Programming 115

The Startup Magazine

JULY 4, 2017

The venture requires a massive financial investment due to the numerous expenses that include marketing, payment services, license acquisition alongside an early license fee. The launching of the site took happened in the year 2000, and since then, it continues to leave a mark in the people’s lives.

Securities and Exchange Commission 60

Securities and Exchange Commission Software Review United Kingdom Affiliate 60

The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Here’s a definition of drop shipping from the Shopify blog : Drop shipping is a retail method in which you don’t keep products in stock. Phase 1 – Offline retail – golden period: before 2000. Retailers bought products from wholesalers and sold them via high street stores. Phase 2 – Online retail – golden period: 2000-201?

Stock 104

Stock Acquisition eCommerce .Net 104

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 112

Retention Developer Customer Programming 112

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 105

Retention Customer Developer Programming 105

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

So here are the most common exit strategies and considerations these days for planning purposes: Merger & Acquisition (M&A). For bigger companies, it’s a more efficient and quicker way to grow their revenue than creating new products organically. Initial Public Offering (IPO). Sell to a friendly individual.

Exit Strategy 241

Exit Strategy Initial Public Offering IPO Startup 241

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Today one of our portfolio companies BigDoor announced the acquisition of San Francisco-based OneTrueFan , a community and web check-in company. Recently the market demand has been outpacing their ability to keep up, so they turned to OneTrueFan as a means of accelerating their product development and overall growth.

San Francisco 115

San Francisco Acquisition Cofounder IPO 115

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

Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

In every start-up, finding initial product-market fit is a magical moment. You dive deep into a customer development process, working closely with a few customers who feed you requirements and are willing to trial an imperfect product that is evolving quickly. customer acquisition cost or CAC). I''ll discuss each one below.

Sales 50

Sales Technical Review Software Review B2B 50

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion. Try charging customers for your product when you have 12 competitors giving the product away free finances by $20 million of VC. The Funding Problem. The Exit Problem.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. But with the help of Grahams company, which specializes in creating tech systems for start-ups, Jumpstart grew to more than $50 million in revenue--enough to make it an attractive acquisition for media conglomerate Hachette Filipacchi.

Arizona 40

Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

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.

Product 60

Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

gigaom.com

JULY 10, 2012

AT&T promised in April to open Watson up to general development, but on Monday AT&T SVP for technology and network operations John Donovan made the launch official in a blog post , revealing seven different “contexts,” or language libraries, that app builders can access to speechify their products. Sign up for a free trial.

API 50

API Technical Review Artificial Inteligence RSS 50

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2011

So here are the most common exit strategies and considerations these days for planning purposes: Merger & Acquisition (M&A). For bigger companies, it’s a more efficient and quicker way to grow their revenue than creating new products organically. Initial Public Offering (IPO). Sell to a friendly individual.

Exit Strategy 231

Exit Strategy Initial Public Offering Startup IPO 231

David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Kevin Barhydt, Head of Acquisitions, RPX. 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.

Naming 122

Naming Government Intellectual Property LLC 122

thebarefootvc

JANUARY 15, 2020

acquisition of Plaid by Visa, in a highly competitive deal, shows how even the largest incumbents are feeling pressure to innovate and need to think outside of their current business models. Along those lines, I have been spending time thinking of the the continued digitization of the financial services sector. The recently announced $5.3B

Disintermediation 69

Disintermediation Aggregator China API 69

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 14, 2020

You may run the risk of overwhelming clients with breathless serenades about your products, services, methodologies, and the details of your résumé. In 1980, when the old AT&T commissioned a top consulting firm to estimate the market for cell phones in the year 2000, they forecast that there would be only 900,000 cell phones.

Sales 147

Sales Conversion Forecast Framework 147

Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2011

Many of the students had heard phrases that fall under Customer Relationships before; “customer acquisition, SEO/SEM, public relations, Social Network, Advertising, Loyalty programs, cross-sell and up-sell” etc., For some of the teams their expectation was if they built the product customers will come. The Nine Teams Present.

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Customer Cloud EC2 Channel 247

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2016

I’ve seen the company go through ups, downs, more ups, near failure, acquisitions, and incredible growth. We did it, and our product ended up evolving as a result. He joined the New York City-based company in 2000 as its first salesperson and quickly rose to Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing.

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New York City Massachusetts New York Early Stage 124

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Whereas when you take a look at a company like Airbnb, if they've taken housing off the market, they haven't replaced it with a new product. And so we're seeing faster product cycles at a certain point that decreases the amount of originality. How do we create products that increase resilience for our customers in the same sort of way?

Technical Review 62

Technical Review Networking United States Artificial Inteligence 62

VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2011

Yair Goldfinger, co-founder and CTO of Dotomi and a prominent Israeli angel investor, founded Dotomi back in 2000, following the acquisition of ICQ by AOL. Yair Goldfinger’s Dotomi sold to ValueClick for $295 million, of which $162 million are in cash and the rest will be paid in ValueClick equity.

Angel Investor 87

Angel Investor Chicago Retention Cofounder 87

Up and Running

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Is it $2000, $3000, five, six, or seven clients per month? From every business dimension, the best mentors have been shown to make a significant impact in entrepreneurial success whether by boosting new business initiatives, increasing revenue, funding, acquisitions, partnerships, and more. Identify the magic number.

Cofounder 125

Cofounder Revenue Valuation Design 125

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

And in order to compete against the big guys, the Deloittes, the McKinseys, the Accentures, our niche became large scale change projects, anything from mergers and acquisitions to large scale system integration work. We started off with Gangbusters in 2000. So how do you bring the people along?

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Leadership Developer Curation Hiring 73

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Pragmatic cost cuts are always possible and often productive.” I learned this lesson 127 times between 2000 and 2005. I started investing in 1994 and while there was some bumpiness in 1997 and again in 1999, the real pain happened between 2000 and 2005. It’s simply not true.

Cap Table 70

Cap Table Down Round Liquidation Preference Founder 70

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2010

But there are also problems / risks: - the funding environment might change dramatically – there may never be a next round (see: March 2000, September 11, 2001 and September 2008). - Google suddenly makes your product category free). - you may hit unexpected bumps in the road yourself making the next round tough. What to do?

Venture Capital 319

Venture Capital Startup Silicon Valley Warrant 319

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. Software Helps companies rapidly convert unstructured online data and content into structured data assets that can be used to create new products, revenue Streams, and enhance current online data sets. 406 Ventures.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 23, 2016

2000 was the Peak of Inflated Expectations. 1995 – 2000 was the climb up to the Peak. 2013 forward has been the plateau of Productivity. Ponder Gartner’s Hype Cycle for a moment. You can apply this to pretty much anything in tech. 2002 was the Trough of Disillusionment. Apply Gartner’s Hype Cycle to it.

Merger 70

Merger Stock Internet America 70

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

In 2000 our industry had more than $100 billion in LP money. And I’ll know in 18 months whether we have product / market fit. This happens at acquisition time, too. VCs often don’t use the products of the companies in which they invest. The industry isn’t dying. It is changing. And reinventing itself.

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LP Later Stage IRR Term Sheet 374