Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

There are Search people and Content people and Landing Page Optimizers and Cart fixers and Attribution Specialists and more. tearsofpain One way of removing silos and focusing on the entire business is to leverage Acquisition, Behavior and Outcome metrics. Lastly, it pains me how often silos quickly emerge in every company.

Metrics 141

Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

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. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble. Tech IPOs were a receding memory, and mergers and acquisitions became the only path to liquidity for startups.

Internet 334

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

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).

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2017

One of our prior investments was an e-commerce company that grew primarily through organic search. I was an early employee at PayPal and back in the 2000-2001 timeframe, and we ended up taking a fairly significant amount of strategic investment (tens of millions of $) from various banks in the US, Europe, and Asia.

Strategic Investors 120

Strategic Investors Post-Money Valuation Seed Stage Cofounder 120

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 17, 2023

In a recent episode, they talked with Kevin Perry about how he goes viral on every single platform. All the search marketing in the world and email marketing in the world will not make you aware of that opportunity cuz they're just not gonna talk to anyone. I think he has a goal of something like 2000 words a day.

B2B 83

B2B Marketing B2C ChatGPT 83

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. The numbers of potential buyers had decreased dramatically both because large companies were shedding jobs and because many past buyers simply lacked resources to make acquisitions.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Until a few weeks ago I owned one of the top ranking sites on Google for the search term “beach towels.&# Back to your beach towel website… does it rely entirely on search engine stats to bring in the visitors, or do you do additional marketing eg adwords, etc? Traffic was from organic search (primarily Google).

Design 51

Design Software Review Marketing Software Developers 51