Austin Startup

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Austin has shed some of the innocence of its youth as a city circa 1970 through 2000 and replaced it with socio-economic stratification and segregation of its growth, post-2000. The only time we let the national conversation drive anything here in Austin is when we are topping a list or p **g off conservatives.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. And is moving the company into augmented reality and conversational AI. It’s possible that betting on the phone as the platform for conversational AI may not be the winning hand.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. And is moving the company into augmented reality and conversational AI. It’s possible that betting on the phone as the platform for conversational AI may not be the winning hand.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Conversion right: In Germany, there is generally no conversion right entitling the holder of preferred shares to convert them into common shares at any time. However, the lack of a conversion right also has implications for anti-dilution protection: in the U.S., this is usually done by adjusting the conversion price.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2020

Speech analytics is becoming more common, particularly as conversations are increasingly recorded and stored as part of interactions with call centers, as well as with each other. million books from 1800 to 2000 to let anyone analyze cultural trends. Datafication of speech.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

There are a number of trends concerning IPOs and capital formation to note: First, the raw number of IPOs has declined significantly: From 1980-2000, the US averaged roughly 300 IPOs per year; from 2001-2016, the average fell to 108 per year. 1999-2000 51.6% Time Period IPO Pop % Above IFR 1999-2000 51.6% 1999-2000 37.5%

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

They are likely to center around increasing your brand awareness, translating that awareness into conversions, and calculating the return on investment of what you have spent on the campaign. So, for example, if there were 2000 impressions on your advert and 25 clicks this would work out as a 1.25% click-through rate. Conversions. .

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2009

My competitors from those days STILL love to talk about how much money we raised in February 2000 (get over it already!). Having a conversation. Keep your conversations confidential. Goldman Sachs (an investor in our company) told us we’d IPO within 18 months for $1 billion so not to take any offers. We were hot.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 18, 2013

Fast-loading sites perform better on all fronts: better user experience, higher conversions, more engagement, even higher search rankings. Only 25% of the Alexa 2000 uses a CDN. Impact on conversions. Main point: faster sites get higher conversions. Improving site speed is part of conversion optimization.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 11, 2022

Make sure you’re welcoming others into the conversation—a conversation that others can actually participate in. 4) Don’t push for me to say yes or no right then—because I see 2000 things in a year and do 8-10 of them. Don’t hog the conversation, but don’t just let everyone else crowd you out. 6) Break in.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 12, 2010

Leave a comment and let's continue the conversation. They were the disruptors, but they didn't profit from the disruption. But neither is it wrong to have more modest goals, and modest goals are much more likely to be achieved. You must have your own thoughts on this subject!

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Responsible for driving industry-leading conversations and creating unique gaming experiences, Estevan leverages his extensive background in the game industry alongside the explosive creativity of SXSW to create one of the most unique conferences in the country.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

I have conversations with entrepreneurs and other VCs on a daily basis about fund raising, the prices of deals, how much companies should raise, etc. It was early 2000. I said both in the article but felt compelled to provide a statement up front for the skimmers. I thought I’d post on one of the topics before hand.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

The stories he told me during our conversation, somber as they are, show the truth of that belief. You can listen to our conversation on Apple podcasts , Google podcasts , or wherever you like to download. Here's my conversation with Carl Liebert. He shared his reflections on why these approaches work. It's member-owned.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

We often talk about online conversion optimization without mentioning that many businesses, especially B2B, rely on offline sales to produce revenue. Conversion rate. Lead conversion to customers. A 2015 global study of 2000 B2B buyers and sellers by Accenture shows that B2B buyers have high expectations for engagement.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Wired did that conversion in a “mere” 18 months. For example, there are advanced marketing techniques that would never make sense with a smaller company, that are fascinating, challenging, and impactful to the top line at a larger company. It never works like that. StackOverflow took 4 years to get everything converted to HTTPS.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 23, 2023

2- Personal inspiration Photo Credit: Terina Nicole I launched my business 23 years ago in the year 2000. After several brainstorming sessions and conversations with industry colleagues, pkgmaker seemed the obvious choice and checked off all these boxes perfectly! We wanted to say no to Tingo! Thanks to Parry Bedi, Tingono ! #2-

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2013

It’s fair to say, this impromptu conversation helped change the course of both my personal and professional life. All in a 2000 sq ft shared workspace. That of a British startup which naively arrived for three months in Tel Aviv and hasn’t looked back since. For me, this is the magic of Israel.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2012

There’s so much talk over the last few years about conversations in marketing when I think a great deal of what still goes on are monologues infused with good listening data. Click on this search for “ markets are conversations ” and you’ll get an even grimmer sense of this.).

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Jeff Bezos’s private space technology company Blue Origin was founded back in 2000. Drift is a conversational marketing platform with the mission: “to use conversations to make business buying frictionless, more enjoyable, and more human.”. In 2002, Elon Musk created Space X. With enough resources, products can always be copied.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2017

We just closed out in 2017 our 10-year early-stage venture fund started in 2000. Disturbing was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. Yes, that has multiple meanings!) Do the math. I wish you all the best for the New Year.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Conversion optimizers are in the business of attention management, just like magicians. What does any of this have to do with increasing your conversion rate? Once they get to checkout screen, you shouldn’t have ANYTHING on the page that doesn’t directly contribute to conversion.” A 17% decrease in conversions.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

2000+ Illustrator Symbols for Illustrators and Animators – [link]. 13% of all adult leisure conversation is swearing – [link]. These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Inspiration: 50+ Vector-Based Book Covers – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

2000+ Illustrator Symbols for Illustrators and Animators – [link]. 13% of all adult leisure conversation is swearing – [link]. These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Inspiration: 50+ Vector-Based Book Covers – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. It is the new cocktail party conversation. When the masses start all running one way without questioning “why?&# – and when it defies any logic I can figure out in my head – I call bullshit. It is slowly becoming Florida Condos.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

Thanks To Facebook, Strongest Year For IPOs Since 2000 With $21.5 Lots of great insight in this Hacker News Conversation about MVPs and getting started - [link]. Why You Should Give Yourself Permission to Screw Up - [link]. Good discussion about the tension between being a maker and manager … Becoming A Boss - [link].

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Not in a 2021 tweet covering Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of the metaverse, but in an early 2000’s magazine article forecasting a rosy future for the virtual world Second Life (SL). “THIS IS GOING TO BE THE 3D INTERNET” a tech reporter boldly wrote. When was this claim made?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 17, 2017

Siloing is so 2000 and late. SXSW 2017: Connecting The Great Disconnect was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. Well converge or die is its cool little sister and it won’t be ignored.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2015

First, your average human today is inundated with over 2000 outbound marketing interruptions per day. And native ads that include rich media boost conversion rates by up to 60%. We think outbound marketing techniques are getting less and less effective over time, for two reasons.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

What I experienced in Afghanistan really stayed with me, and one of the things that I noted was that meat prices have been steadily climbing since about 2000. The challenge is very similar to conventional animal agriculture, where farmers often think about how much their feed costs and the conversion rate of that feed to meat.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2019

Buzzfeed sees their quizzes shared an average of nearly 2000 times each, helping them to reach more than 580 million people in 2017. Startups that use quizzes’ built-in lead generation see immediate, measurable results – automatically sending each lead personalized follow-ups based on their quiz responses for better conversion.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Our team members have literally been at the bleeding the intersection of real-time AI and computer graphics since 2000. My first was AI.implant in 2000, which allowed non-programmers to create and simulate huge crowds of interacting autonomous characters. It boils down to our culture. This is my third startup.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

And while the internet created both tremendous reward and tremendous investment carnage leading up to and after the 2000 tech bubble, it’s created long run disruption of broad sectors of media, advertising, business software & computing, and retail commerce and VCs that missed this shift have faced real struggles. [link] leehower.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 29, 2017

And at the root of all cultures and so many conversations is food. So I went home to my comfortable 2000 square foot UWS apartment and thought, what can I do myself, from home, and still make a good living. I started my business to connect the world. Food and food culture tells a magnificent story of a region. Aha–ghostwriting!

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 14, 2020

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. These should be very brief and conversational. Have a conversation and use a whiteboard or flipchart if appropriate. It causes tunnel vision.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

John (04:23): Yeah, we had a 2000 page site that we did just that to 1400 pages and immediately lifted their results. When you're asking, for example, your Amazon device, I'm not going to say the word begins with an A and she's listening right now for it's wake word and it's going to start chiming in on this conversation.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 1, 2023

We go into, in this, uh, sheet that I'm sharing the prompts, I'm sharing lead generation and lead conversion. There are a lot of people out there that are producing all these, you've seen them 2000 prompts to do blah, blah, blah, and they, you know, the prompt says, write a blog post , or, it's just random stuff. (17:04):

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