A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

It’s often said that you shouldn’t talk about price during customer development interviews. Consider the consequences of these monthly pricing possibilities: $0/mo means your goal is to maximize growth (trust and usage) instead of revenue. simple enough to be self-service). Again, like shared hosting companies.)

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Jeff Bezos’s private space technology company Blue Origin was founded back in 2000. And yet, revenue went up by 45% YoY. Share content exploring what it’s like to work at your organization, such as remote working, away days, professional development programs, etc. In 2002, Elon Musk created Space X. 30% Culture-level messaging.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

I have been working with my Partners since November 2000. We were witnessing, firsthand, the dramatic shifts in B2C e-commerce, and the resulting incredible experiences and benefits brands were delivering their retail consumers. The differences between B2C and B2B within the same brands were staggering! 14- A number of reasons.

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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. Going B2C was daunting and not in our core DNA,” Kaufer remarked.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

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. To achieve friction-free revenue (and who doesn''t want friction-free revenue?), 3) Developer Driven Sales.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

By the end, 99 percent of the B2B marketplaces had cratered and only B2C eBay was left standing and thriving. it’s really a software business, not liquidity driven) and that B2C marketplaces could not be built under the giant momentum of eBay’s “ network effect. Investment stopped, and entrepreneurs focused on other categories.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. If failure is defined as failing to see the projected return on investment—say, a specific revenue growth rate or date to break even on cash flow—then more than 95% of start-ups fail, based on Mr. Ghoshs research. Software. -

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