ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

Has your company’s customer retention rate increased, decreased or remained status quo over the past five years? Have you outlined and initiated a formal customer retention strategy? In a study by Harvard Business School , it was found that increasing customer retention by even 5% can increase profits between 25-95%.

Retention 98

Retention Customer Developer Programming 98

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Lyft requires you to be at least 23 years old and have your own four-door car (2000 or newer) in good working condition. Gigs vary in categories like advertising, video and animation, graphics and design, programming and tech, music and audio, gifts, fun and bizarre, online marketing or writing and translation.

Securities and Exchange Commission 263

Securities and Exchange Commission San Francisco Miami United Kingdom 263

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

I explain in the video what happened in my first company (e.g. The A round was done in February 2000 (end of the bull market) and my B round was done in April 2001 (bear market). In the video I also covered why you shouldn’t raise too much money too early in your company’s existence. Minutes 11-16 in the video. <<

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Venture Capital Term Sheet Valuation Stock Options 282

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Jeff Bezos’s private space technology company Blue Origin was founded back in 2000. In this article, you’ll understand how to build a memorable brand that your customers want to buy from. Your brand is your reputation – that intangible thing that determines whether your customers trust you above the rest.

Marketing 109

Marketing Social Media Non-Compete Audience 109

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 1, 2023

So by following these prompts, by seeing how we've broken up the prompts into certain pillars, brand industry leads, CX customer experience, it, it really gives you a, a very good feel for how we view strategy in general. Typically, what we find is that some 20% of of a customer's clients produce close to 80% of their business.

Marketing 82

Marketing ChatGPT Framework Technical Review 82

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 11, 2013

They can be you (the teller), the listener, customer, product, location, tribe, or any other entity so long as they’re appropriate for the goal. Towards the end of the book, Guber acknowledges that storytelling technologies like blogs, YouTube videos, Facebook, Twitter and other social platforms could change how storytelling evolves.

Technical Review 133

Technical Review Audience Social Media Media 133

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

In this time, building a successful business meant building a company that had paying customers quarter after quarter. It did not mean building a startup into a company to flip or hype on the market with no earnings or revenue, but building a company that had paying customers. They taught you about customers, markets and profits.

Silicon Valley 217

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). MySpace didn’t handle images or video well. Social Networks: Past, Present & Future. Social Networking in Web 1.0.

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Social Network Networking Internet EC2 297

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2011

I think you’ll really enjoy this video , but as always I have summary notes for those with less time. 3. We then addressed competition in the context of SiteAdvisor and how it is important for journalists, customers, and the companies themselves. Hopefully it will entice you to come back and watch the show at a later time!

Technical Review 281

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Cofounder API 281

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2020

Businesses see this as the Holy Grail for finally being able to predict who, where, and when customers will buy their existing solutions, and what their future solutions must look like to be attractive. million books from 1800 to 2000 to let anyone analyze cultural trends. quintillion bytes a day.

Social Media 312

Social Media Analytics Global Finance 312

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 16, 2014

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Top 10 Factors – crowdspring.co/1jWAkij.

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

“The idea is that when you work backwards and start with the press release, it’s easier to put yourself in the customer’s shoes.”. Internal press releases are centered around the customer problem, how current solutions (internal or external) fail, and how the new product will blow away existing solutions. Image source ).

Product 110

Product Campaign Acquisition Social Media 110

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

They do more of the same with less, often lowering quality and customer satisfaction. Companies in this category add features when customers desire greater value. The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly.

Marketing 121

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2011

If you have a webcam, you can connect to a notary over video chat without leaving your desk! It’s a lot easier to tell customers “Try our FREE signing website, you can sign documents with a mouse or on your iphone!&# than it is to explain how the 1999 UETA and 2000 ESIGN Acts and our https framework help keep us secure.

Small Business 105

Small Business New Jersey Internet Bootstrapping 105

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 11, 2017

Sometimes called “Gen Y”, millennials are the much sought after generation born between 1980 and 2000. Hello, Video Marketing. Use blogs, social media posts, podcasts, ebooks, and especially video to publish content that is meaningful and actionable. Millennials.

Small Business 60

Small Business Marketing Social Media United States 60

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Paulina Cabrera, Operation Coordinator for Solar Winds and Latinitas Volunteer Paulina Cabrera Paulina Cabrera grew up in Arlington, TX, but had the wonderful experience of living in Neiva, Colombia from 1997 to 2000. She attended Full Sail University in Winter Park, FL to learn about art and design for video games.

Colombia 49

Colombia Texas Startup Arlington 49

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 8 Rules for Creating Effective Typography – [link].

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 8 Rules for Creating Effective Typography – [link].

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Reporting in the Harvard Business Review on a major study of growth stalls they conducted, Olson and his colleagues cite the case of the iconic brand Levi Strauss, which hit a historic high mark of sales in 1995, reaching revenue of $7 billion, but then, starting in 1996, saw a decline in sales so precipitous that by 2000, revenue was down to $4.6

Technical Review 127

Technical Review Algorithm Channel Analytics 127

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I don’t believe that search is the only answer in 2010 as it was in 2000. It kicked Google Video’s ass. Stitcher - San Francisco-based service that lets users customize talk radio programming on their mobile devices. So my guess is that Tweetup needs to go “multi-stream&# (as in Facebook, MySpace, etc.).

Venture Capital 271

Venture Capital Affiliate Valuation San Francisco 271

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2014

What you’ll see if you watch the video is an unscripted and unfiltered look into how Scott Kupor & I see some of the changes and challenges of the venture industry. Here is the video of the presentation that I gave that preceded our debate. Each of the two videos is about 10 minutes long. tl;dr version.

Valuation 309

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Later Stage Non-Compete 309

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. President Bieto, Dean Sauquet, members of the faculty, distinguished guests, and ladies and gentlemen….Thank Thank you for the kind introduction. Now look around.

Private Equity 325

Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. This was possible because in 2000, Donna and Handspring were in an Existing Market.

Customer Development 196

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 196

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

And even the above mentioned difficulties notwithstanding, it’s completely unclear how to pay those customers we’ve rented computing resources from. To the customer, the price in question would be really low: for instance, if we divide the price of renting the CompecTA supercomputer for one month by 10 000, we’ll get no more than 6 cents.

Search 179

Search Aggregator Distribution Framework 179

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2019

No longer just an auction site, eBay introduced the “ Buy it Now ” option in 2000. What You Can Do: Collect feedback from your customers and prospects to learn what elements of your brand are misaligned or lacking. For more on this, read 16 Crucial Website Design Factors That Help Your Small Business Increase Customers and Profits.

Design 173

Design Audience Small Business Naming 173

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Consider what followed since November: New foundational models, more efficient ways of training models etc An explosion of open source models, the rise of HuggingFace Breakthrough research across voice, video, text, multi modality, etc Billions of dollars invested in thousands of startups at the application layer of generative AI.

Generative AI 78

Generative AI ChatGPT Artificial Inteligence Cofounder 78

ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

Content management, sharing and tracking: Allow teams to manage, share and track engagement on their content (documents, videos, webpages, images etc.) Teams can customize follow-ups based on the engagement level and potentially close faster. Lead conversion to customers. Outbound prospecting. Attract relevant people.

B2B 48

B2B Sales Technical Review Software Review 48

www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

The dot-com boom of early 2000 saw a proliferation of similar anything-at-your-service start-ups. The fleet of cars in Getaround has grown to 10,000 from 1,500 a year ago, and suburban customers make up about a quarter of its bookings. Thats real money." Struggling to manage costs, the start-up closed shop as quickly as it opened.

San Francisco 105

San Francisco Technical Review Zimbabwe New York City 105

Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2013

Prism provides the NSA with access to data on the servers of Microsoft, Google, Facebook , etc, extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, etc. Since 2000, Intel has put out 29 microcode updates to their processors. Filed under: Customer Development , Secret History of Silicon Valley.

Silicon Valley 335

Silicon Valley Russia Security Customer Development 335

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion. Try charging customers for your product when you have 12 competitors giving the product away free finances by $20 million of VC. The Funding Problem. The Exit Problem.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

But a certain amount gets lost in the headlines – especially when not everybody actually heard the video and knows the nuance of the message. 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. Fair enough.

Saudi Arabia 309

Saudi Arabia Valuation IPO Technical Review 309

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

What if I take those lectures and turn them into videos, cut out all the fulfillment costs? ” And that turned into, at its culmination, the $2000 course kind of paradigm. It’s your customer, your audience, it’s their job to tell you what they’re thinking. For that you need education. John Jantsch: Yeah.

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Bandwidth Cost Audience Video 36

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In 2021, the startup landscape looks much different than it did in 2000. MOOCs are online education courses that mix video lectures, exercises, and assessments. Tech Startup dedicated to custom jeans circa 2013. For starters, there are more startups. What’s behind this boom? What Has Changed Over the Past Ten Years?

Startup 127

Startup Social Media Global Incubator 127

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 22, 2019

I mean there’s probably 2000 words on that page, but then links off to in a very logical way. Yeah, the B2B software company I would 100% focus on creating content that your customers, around keywords that your customers search for. You’re a SaaS company, you hopefully [inaudible] and customers all the time.

SEO 60

SEO Kansas City Kansas Missouri 60

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

I bought a family-run business and we made some great strides to turn that around, bought some new equipment, brought on some customers like Unilever and Hershey and Godiva and did some great work. A lot of our customers brought their packaging back in-house, there wasn’t as much demand. We started off with Gangbusters in 2000.

Leadership 73

Leadership Developer Curation Hiring 73

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Why Arizona Bay started taking stock from its customers instead of cash. Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. And his vendors ended up with nothing when his company, OpenAuto.com , went out of business, in 2000. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. Leadership. Advertising.

Arizona 40

Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 28, 2020

Yes, in the 2000’s you could get away with slow page speed… but these days, you only have a few seconds to catch your potential customer. Creating title tags and meta descriptions for each page is important for your customers to understand what the page is about when they do a search, but also Google. Website speed.

SEO 66

SEO Social Media Engineer Search 66