Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

The A round was done in February 2000 (end of the bull market) and my B round was done in April 2001 (bear market). But most importantly I lectured founders that you can’t avoid the admin of setting up your ESOP. I’ve heard every excuse in the book and you’d be surprised how many people put this off.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2015

First, your average human today is inundated with over 2000 outbound marketing interruptions per day. For example, businesses that incorporate personalized inbound marketing software are more likely to see greater return on investment. Having the right technologies in play can go a long way in accelerating business growth.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Dan is an entrepreneur, and angel investor and became a highly sought-after coach in the SaaS industry and founder of SaaS academy after exiting three technology companies within a ten-year period. He’s the author of the book – Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire. [22:52]

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Microsoft entered the 21st century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. 16 years later it’s just another software company. After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. Here’s why. Filed under: Corporate Innovation.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Microsoft entered the 21st century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. 16 years later it’s just another software company. After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. Here’s why. Filed under: Corporate Innovation.

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. Mostly, I sell software. ” What does “execute arbitrary code” mean? Literally, it means that the attacker can choose to have your server execute any code they can dream up.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

He’s the author of a new book we’re talking about called – The Bezos Blueprint: Communication Secrets of the World’s Greatest Salesman. Questions I ask Carmine Gallo: [1:57] Why did you choose Bezos to focus your book on? [6:20] 6:20] You start off the book with – “Simple is the new superpower.”

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

August 20, 2017: This is another in my series of posts all leading up to a book on Startup Decision Making. Kalanick, former investor BFF turned highly disappointed by founder behavior. Usually the founders duke it out among themselves as to titles and responsibilities and relative shareholdings. How about your Investors ?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2022

Melissa is the CEO and Co-founder of Webinar. As a revenue-driven founder specializing in sales and business development, Melissa has learned how to build companies with very few resources — by automating what she could, outsourcing wherever possible, and inspiring talented people to join her team with shared focus and enthusiasm. [22:06]

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Joel on Software Fog Creek Compensation by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 30, 2000 At Fog Creek Software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder. So all Fog Creek software engineers are ranked at one of several different levels, level 8 through level 15.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

I’m a huge fan of William and his writing as you can see from my review of his book Avogadro Corp. There seem to be two schools of thought on how to predict the future of information technology: looking at software or looking at hardware. By day he works on web and social media for HP. Streaming video had finally made it.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

by Aneace Haddad, CEO & Founder, Taggo. I used to think that the success of my last startup was due to our software quality, thought leadership, patents, etc. In 2000, we launched a loyalty program for a bank in Turkey, Akbank. Sure, lots of features were added over the years. Inflation: The Next Big Opportunity?

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ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

And sales enablement software helps arm sales teams with the information they need to close sales. Examples: Clearslide , Salespatron (I’m a co-founder) and Brainshark. A 2015 global study of 2000 B2B buyers and sellers by Accenture shows that B2B buyers have high expectations for engagement. Image Source. Generate more leads.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Memorable Postcard from a New Mechanic My Report on StackOverflow DevDays → Are Twitter and Facebook Killing Blogs? Check out my book Like this post? Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 19, 2023

Previously, Rob was the founder and publisher of The New York Enterprise Report, a media company that served small and midsize businesses. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! If you do the math 2000 hours in a year, that's a hundred dollars an hour. And you can listen to it all on your lunch break.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

With the goal of increasing the conversion rate I read piles of books on internet marketing , web analytics , and copywriting. As a software developer I want things in neat little boxes. But the problem is that marketing isn’t like coding. Marketing Isn’t Coding. I want solid answers. Marketing is Design.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Also worth a read after you review these startup failure post-mortems. A month ago, half way through my angel funds raised from family members, I decided to review the progress I’ve made and figure out what still needs to happen to make this a viable business. You should sign up for our newsletter here. During this year they.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

I'm a big fan of Professor Bob Sutton, who wrote the book Scaling Excellence , and he's- Eric Ries : Amen to that. It's one of the books that I cherish. And I think one of the leaders, a mentor of mine and dear friend, General Stanley McChrystal wrote a book called Team of Teams , and it's one of my- Eric Ries : Great book.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

I ruffled a few feathers with my recent post The Software Product Myth. The unrest surrounded my statement that making $2500/month from your software product wouldn’t allow you to quit your day job. As I said in The Five Minute Guide to Becoming a Freelance Software Developer , an accountant is not an optional expense.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

And thus it is with the majority of open source software: Open source software is free if your time is worth nothing. I’m bracing my inbox for emails from disgruntled Gimp users explaining how charging for software is bad, commercial software is evil, and my mother dresses me funny. Check out my book Like this post?

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Books, mentors, advisors, entrepreneurial friends, conferences, dinners, meetups, etc and it’s usually real time meaning you learn what you need today to solve your biggest challenges. Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? Read great books / especially business biographies. Non of this academic stuff.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! So about, this was like around 2000 ish, I think, or something like that. And, you know, you wrote about this in one of your books. There is a founder called Priscilla side. [24:13] What resources do you want to share with listeners? Like this show? I have an example.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 22, 2019

He is the founder of Backlinko.com a place where you can get actionable SEO advice. I mean there’s probably 2000 words on that page, but then links off to in a very logical way. My favorite marketing book was Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch: Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

Before this occurs, the sales process is a craft or an art - custom-made by the founder or evangelist sales VP. 80-90% software products vs. 40-50% advertising products) and company maturity (e.g., For example if you have a 90% gross margin SaaS software product and assign a $1.1M customer acquisition cost or CAC).

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

No manager in their right mind would fire the technical lead of a big software project. Show Up Early, Leave Late I’ve talked about how crunch time should be the exception in software projects. How much would an extra $1000 or $2000 per month help during that time? Check out my book Like this post? The average U.S.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 9, 2017

They’re pulling in things like critical reviews so if a business is on [00:03:32] or Eater or some of these other — depending on your industry you know maybe it’s something like Superlawyers if you’re a lawyer. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast. David thanks for joining me.

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