View from Seed

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

That’s why in order to reimagine the way humans consume protein, Aryé Elfenbein and Justin Kolbeck created WildType , an engineered protein company. 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 second is cost.

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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. The primary objective was to devise a business moniker that is readily memorable and efficiently optimized for search engines, while concurrently possessing a branding advantage due to its simplistic nomenclature.

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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]. Facebook Has Some Tips | Search Engine Land - [link]. Why You Should Give Yourself Permission to Screw Up - [link]. Billion Raised | TechCrunch - [link].

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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. WP Engine – Web hosting made for WordPress. You should.

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Ben's Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Just because we missed the intermediate milestones doesn’t mean we won’t hit our product schedule” – In engineering meetings where there is great pressure to ship on time—a customer commitment, a quarter that depends on it, or a competitive imperative—everybody hopes for good news. I’ll bet you can’t.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

I’m never surprised when I see product development driven by engineers proceeding at top speed developing the next cool thing. You value creativity in your engineering staff, but it translates into profits only when pointed in the right direction. One of my engineers once told me my favorite color was plaid. Paisley is OK.)

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2019

Here is some of our conversation: 1. When I first heard about it a few years ago, I had to look up the prior three revolutions — caused by the growth of steam engines, then electricity, and then the internet. And then in the middle 2000’s Domino’s began a sharp decline.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 28, 2020

You probably know that SEO stands for “search engine optimisation” and is the process of driving traffic to your website from organic search engine results such as Google, Yahoo and Bing. The fact of the matter is that search engine optimisation can be game changing for any business if done properly. Website speed.

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

However, we needed a head of engineering to recruit and lead a larger team to accomplish our larger goals. I felt that I had to re-educate myself on the engineering talent landscape given how fast it is evolving, and had a deep curiosity regarding what the best engineering leaders of right now looked like.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 24, 2024

In this regard, yes, it was James Watt who brought us the steam engine. But it was Thomas Savery who patented the steam engine 60 years before. Watt built from their efforts to make steam engines more efficient. And turns us into a fellowship. And Thomas Newcomen who got it to work at atmospheric pressure. Let me explain.

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Ben's Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

This conversation ultimately became the inspiration for Andreessen Horowitz. They might know executives, but not engineers. These presentations resulted in more than 3,000 introductions between portfolio companies and prospective Fortune 500/Global 2000 senior executives. As founding CEO, one tends to be busy.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 27, 2015

Innovations in SaaS have made core VSB functions like lead conversion, scheduling, CRM and secure transactions available online for the first time ever. Scott Petty co-founded Signal Peak Ventures (FKA vSpring Capital) in 2000 and has been a Managing Director since its formation.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 12, 2017

Chances are, you will go online and enter your query into a search engine, such as Google & Bing. Thanks to Search Engine Watch ). According to Search Engine Land , “SEO stands for “search engine optimization.” Search engines are getting smarter and smarter. Not optimizing your home page for conversion.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

I grew up on a family potato farm in SE Idaho and I have a PhD in Engineering from Stanford (also known as The Farm). Additionally, in Colorado and elsewhere, there is a shortage of students entering STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. So I feel I have pretty good mix of horse sense and formal education.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 17, 2018

I had my own agency for a dozen years and then I did business development for a couple other agencies after I sold my agency 10 years ago and so I had developed a way to look at what were companies … what were prospects doing before we talked so I could have a more intelligent conversation with them. Louis Gudema: Yeah.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 28, 2005

Luckily, I have 2 portfolio companies that I respectively invested in during 1999 and 2000 which survived the nuclear winter and are having an opportunity to contribute to this innovation by helping make search better and easier for users. There is obviously lots of innovation happening in the search space. You can read more about it here.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Real-time search engine. TRUSTe claims that 82% of all users recognize the meaning of a TRUSTe seal on a web site, resulting in increased conversion rates, order values and engagement. Founded in 2000 in New Brunswick, NJ. But it’s a real phenomenon. You can listen to Om, Paul & I debate the topic in the video.

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Accel Partners VII (2000): 122% (97%). ARCH Venture Fund V (2000): 41% (11%). Commonwealth Capital Ventures III (2000): 110% (56%). HIG Venture Partners (2000): 44% (22%). Insight Venture Partners IV (2000): 169% (119%). Lightspeed Venture Partners VI (2000): 112% (80%). Onset Ventures IV (2000): 31% (4%).

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2011

They were engineers, certainly they could do better than that? So during the week they ran more hands-on user testing, A/B tests, landing page conversion tests, and bought Google Adwords. Their first effort didn’t get much traffic: 6 clicks out of ~2000 impressions. If you can’t see the slides above, click here.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

You assign an annual quota to each rep, train them, feed them some sales tools and assign them a sales engineer (particularly for more technically complex products) and coach them along the way. Find a new sales rep with industry experience, a rolodex and a strong track record.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 6, 2019

Since 2011, Kimberly has helped Black Girl CODE grow from a local organization serving only the Bay Area, to an international non-profit organization with chapters in 7 US cities and Johannesburg, South Africa serving over 2000 African/African-American, Latina, and Native American girls. What’s working, and what’s not?

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 10, 2014

most of my peers from the early 2000 days of angel investing are now VC’s (Reid Hoffman, Peter Thiel, Josh Kopelman, Jeff Clavier, Mike Maples, Dave Whorton, etc). Dentists from the Midwest, tech CEOs, Facebook engineers, VC’s and private equity partners. I was one of the few not to raise a fund. Do you let anyone join?

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2016

Having an electrical engineering background, I knew there had to be a better way and I could help build it. Curiously, over the last fifteen years I’ve had the same conversation over and over with other people who felt a similar blankness as to their calling in life. I knew this was not an accurate way to track critical vital signs.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2013

But do colors really matter for conversions? For sure there is some truth to all of this, but can we translate this to lifting conversions? Does red, really, give an advantage in conversion? In their testing with 600 subjects they found that conversions increased by 34% when they used red button. Red means danger.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Over 13 years ago, in March of 2000, I wrote a blog post titled “ The Most Powerful Internet Metric of All. ” The key thesis was this: if an Internet company could obsess about only one metric, it should be conversion. As such, it is time to pound the table again – conversion is by far the most powerful Internet metric of all.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Key Takeaway: In a recent Texas Tech Survey, out of 2000 consumers, 89% of them claimed they had a business that they loved enough that they would gladly recommend — only 29% of them actually did it. Resources I mention: The Ultimate Marketing Engine: Five Steps to Ridiculously Consistent Growth. Why is there such a gap?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 18, 2017

Search Engine Optimization is an essential part of the marketing mix today – few businesses can afford to ignore or abdicate this tactic. – Look for customer leads, sales , and conversions. Most legitimate SEO companies will charge between $2000-$5000/month. written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 21, 2013

written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing I had an interesting conversation with one of the most dynamic free agent entrepreneurs I know. I shared Scott’s amazing story in my book The Referral Engine. What If You Needed to Fire Yourself? A what, a job?

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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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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Sure, when WP Engine launches a new product, the marketing department needs predictability for the launch date, but that’s because it’s a highly-skilled, well-funded group, which explodes with press, events, campaigns, social media, and newsletters, grabbing more attention in a single week than a smaller company might garner in a year.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In our conversation, we uncover how businesses can tap into their SEO marketing potential by harnessing AI to produce high-quality, optimized content efficiently. So everything that I needed in one place, and it's writing really good content all there in five minutes, a 2000 word piece. And this company just passed 2000 users.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2022

16:42] Are you an engineer or programmer yourself? [17:06] You can put in sales notification, but it's based on your conversion pixel, there is a counter, but you could choose live or accumulative, but it's real. You know, from a text import first, I should have asked you in the beginning, are you an engineer or programmer yourself or.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

My company focuses on optimization for the high-end and luxury market, and over the years, we’ve learned there are 5 critical factors that will make or break the conversion rate of a high-end ecommerce store. We’ve done a lot of research to understand the needs of high-end customers, and how luxury ecommerce stores can increase conversion.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2015

First, your average human today is inundated with over 2000 outbound marketing interruptions per day. In order to do this, you need to set your website up like a “hub” for your industry that attracts visitors naturally through search engines , blogging , and social media.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. Invidi is based in New York and founded in 2000.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 26, 2016

Terms like social media marketing, influencer marketing, content marketing and search engine marketing entered the marketing conversation in the last decade. I outline all channels in this Lead Generation System post ). While this may seem to present a golden opportunity for some businesses, it has created frustration for others.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

The conversations usually go down the same path, ending with a you’re how old? I soon found that yoga taught me 2000-year-old strategies, to be more present with my kids, be more patient with my family and feel more calm and energized at the same time! 5 – Old Man Strength. Image Credit: Joe Battisto.

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