A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 12, 2010

That phrase died during the tech-bubble along with "portal" and "think outside the box," yet the concept has returned. It's hard to think of disruptive technologies or products that didn't take many millions of dollars to implement. Most technology we now consider "disruptive" wasn't conceived that way. Don't follow along.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Narayana Murthy pulled a Michael Dell when he called time on his two-year-long retired life and retook charge at Infosys, the Indian information technology (IT) giant he had founded three decades ago in a small apartment with six others. Infosys would now be a technology solutions provider. All the way from 1993 to 2000.

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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. A big technical challenge we studied was piping streaming video over networks.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

RFP-EZ and Innovative Contracting Tools Making it easier for the government to do business with small, high-growth tech companies, and enabling the government to buy better, lower-cost tech solutions from the full range of American businesses. ProjectMyUSA on Twitter. The objective of the RFP-EZ 2.0

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

In the early 80’s he left academia to work on venture capital investing with Jim Simons, Renaissance Technologies. Infonautics went public in 1996 and Half.com was sold to eBay in 2000. 100 get serious due diligence where the entrepreneur meets with several people from the firm. and Half.com. Investing Strategy.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Make extra cash to help with those expensive holiday costs and maybe even help you put some money back in your wallet so you don’t start the New Year off broke! Lyft requires you to be at least 23 years old and have your own four-door car (2000 or newer) in good working condition. An online marketplace offering 3.5

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

I had been working on research that focused on regenerative medicine and also training in cardiology, and started to wonder if some of the emerging technologies of stem cell biology, tissue engineering, and our understanding of how cells become complex tissues, could be applied to fields beyond the biomedical sciences.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&# Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

OCTOBER 16, 2019

While people often think of automation as a complete technological take over of all work-related tasks, this is not the case at all. Workers will always be needed as technology needs the assistance of a skilled hand. Imagine printing off 2000 documents, only to find they needed repeating due to a quality failure.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. Responses ranged from, “hey, they’re in a HUGE market&# to “it is an amazing company and their technology rocks.&# But everything has intrinsic value.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it. Notice that none of those five reasons deals with TDD or automated testing, which have changed the game. Automated testing dramatically reduces the cost of certifying changes, because it removes all of the grunt work QA traditionally does in software.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

There are many ways to measure technical skills and check work histories and achievements, but assessment of team chemistry is a high art form. Make your choices only after you’ve done some due diligence with other companies where they’ve served. Can you acquire them at a sustainable cost? Are the logistics manageable?

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Tech: Blogs. Technology Live. Talking Tech. Talking Your Tech. Sponsored Links Americans with heaps of stuff, skills and time are connecting online with tech-savvy and early adopters eager to share and rent homes, cars, tools and services in exchange for deep savings. Skip to Main Content. Game Hunters.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Technological progress has significantly altered our lives, specifically by increasing carbon dioxide emissions from various corporations. Now, let us imagine that 10 of them took the bus due to the lack of their own car, 5 used car sharing vehicles, and another 5 purchased bicycles. Carpooling is one such corporate mobility service.

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Ben's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Building a technology company is hard. So much so that our diligence found him working round the clock, running a hyper-intense environment and looking very much like a 20 year old entrepreneur on a mission from God. With these costs radically reduced, companies today deploy 10X as many applications as they did just 10 years ago.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Key Takeaway: There are economic, technological, and social parts of our world that are changing rapidly today more than ever. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Gain Grow Retain is built to inspire SAS and technology leaders who are facing day to day. You know, the cost of labor, but also consumption.

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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). People buy companies for 3 primary reasons: 1) they want the management team / talent 2) they want the technology or 3) they want the market traction (revenue, customer base, profits, etc). Do it early.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

I wanted to find a way to vastly simplify loyalty programs, eliminating most if not all of the costs and making them much lighter to deploy and manage. We experimented with tap and go technology, both on cards as well as embedded in mobile phones. In 2000, we launched a loyalty program for a bank in Turkey, Akbank.

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Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

This growth is due, in large part, to an aging U.S. percent in 2000 to 19.6 To date, North America has dominated the home health care global marketplace due mainly to a more sophisticated health care infrastructure and more resources committed to research and development. Technological upkeep and maintenance. population.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

Technology is changing the way sales is conducted. And as I mentioned, technology is making sales generally more sophisticated. Cost per lead. A 2015 global study of 2000 B2B buyers and sellers by Accenture shows that B2B buyers have high expectations for engagement. cost per download. Image Source. Site traffic.

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gigaom.com

JULY 10, 2012

Tech News and Analysis. AT&T promised in April to open Watson up to general development, but on Monday AT&T SVP for technology and network operations John Donovan made the launch official in a blog post , revealing seven different “contexts,” or language libraries, that app builders can access to speechify their products.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. We have also been very busy with our next release, which is due out by December 11th (but I’ll save that for a different post). Reasons: cost of sales executives, long sales cycles, deep functional requirements. Biggest lessons ….

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. The Funding Problem.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

By 2011, the number of subscribers worldwide had surpassed 5 Billion and cellular communication had become an unprecedented technological revolution.” ( article via @trengriffin ). I don’t think very many people put young kids into taxis (due to trust), but they are quite comfortable doing this in an Uber. The Atlantic (3/25/12).

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 3, 2016

2 – Our Flagship Technology. When filing for incorporation ATLAS Technologies was already taken, so Mobile was added since that’s our focus. Thanks to Steve Wood, ATLAS Mobile Technologies. #3 Naming a company is always a time consuming process that requires due diligence. 3 – From Blah to Moi.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 20, 2022

According to an Accenture study, companies are increasingly becoming invested in creation, with 62% of high-growth companies planning to invest in technologies that lead to higher rates of innovation study. Ironically, the founder of Netflix, Reed Hastings, made an offer to Blockbuster to buy out Netflix for $50 million in 2000.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Technology | Thursdays. TECHNOLOGY. Technology. Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. Like a venture capitalist reviewing business plans, he now weighs the potential of every company Arizona Bay works with. Join our community. Forgot login ?

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Yet in expansionary periods, successful leaders spent significantly less on [selling, general, and administrative costs] than did their former peers. A Harvard Business Review (HBR) study of 4,700 public companies looked at the three years before, during, and after recessions. Promotion. Image source ).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Just ask anybody who was trying to close funding the fateful week of September 11, 2001 or even March 2000. High burn-rates fueled by over investment – One of the most damning things that happened to the start-up markets in 97-00 and 05-08 was the overfunding of technology companies. I only had one board with this problem.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 16, 2018

Despite practicing law and building tech startups, there was a big part of me that was unsatisfied in each of those roles. At that time, in the year 2000 there were no spam filters so it was pretty easy to contact other translation companies to setup cooperation. Thanks to Alison Bernstein, The Suburban Jungle ! #9- 9- I HAD to.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Ian McAllister of Amazon offers greater detail on the process: The target audience for the press release is the new/updated product’s customers, which can be retail customers or internal users of a tool or technology. I see this happen far too often when people submit products to me for review to post on Product Hunt.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

This drop in public valuations basically means that private companies lost half of their value in a comparable way and therefore the cost of capital doubled in the past month, pushing much higher the hurdle for any additional investment, be it in sales, marketing or R&D. How long will the downturn last? So were do we go from here?

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

economy: “… Sarbanes-Oxley compliance costs, Eliot-Spitzer’s stock analyst settlement and the economic downturn have created an historic drought in venture-backed companies going public. . It boggles the mind that Washington would enact new policies sure to prolong this (IPO) drought and strike at the heart of American innovation.”

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 19, 2023

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! The MarTech Podcast share stories from world-class marketers who use technology to generate growth and achieve business and career success. 03:29): And of course you have a big cost of living difference in Latin America as you do in the States. John Jantsch (06:32): Right?

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 4, 2011

We didn’t assume our students had any existing tech knowledge and just wanted to watch our videos and copy what we did and then get a result. Become A Blogger Goes Premium Due to the success of the free videos Gideon and I decided to team up and form a partnership to create a premium version of the videos that we would sell.

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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. How much would an extra $1000 or $2000 per month help during that time? Right now companies are cutting costs and letting go of their $125/hour development shop. A lot of contract work is out there looking for mid- to low-cost providers.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. Figure, back in 2011 the Speciality Coffee Association of America found that the average 16 oz cup of coffee costs around $1.17 image source. before tax, giving them $0.96 profit on each cup.

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