Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Transcript of Developing Important Entrepreneurial and Leadership Qualities written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. It’s relatively small business, but I had a big part in helping build the infrastructure for the firm and hiring people and kind of the whole business development side and just really helping a firm grow.

Leadership 73

Leadership Developer Curation Hiring 73

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. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

I’ve been working with Matt since 2000. Matt Blumberg has a new book out titled Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams. It’s a follow-up to his previous book, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business. That year, we merged two companies: Return Path and Veripost.

Fractional CTO 195

Fractional CTO Cofounder Startup Lead Investor 195

View from Seed

APRIL 20, 2022

Comparisons have been made to the two most recent significant pull-backs of the dot com crash in 2000-2001 and Great Recession of 2008-2009. . semiconductor manufacturing in Taiwan), may be diffused across more places, empowering new hubs to develop expertise and innovations. .

Ukraine 156

Ukraine China Russia Global 156

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. Phase 2 – Develop The Product, Site or New Offers Based On Feedback From Existing Customers. Listen to their feedback & continue to develop the program based on their feedback.

Retention 112

Retention Developer Customer Programming 112

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Benefits of Corporate Car Sharing Software To proficiently manage corporate car sharing and optimise operations, corporate car sharing software has been developed. Founded in 2000, by 2010, the company’s fleet already had 8,000 cars. Ask the program developer for an API key through which the integration process will occur.

Software Review 138

Software Review Software Mobile Technical Review 138

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. Phase 2 – Develop The Product, Site or New Offers Based On Feedback From Existing Customers. Listen to their feedback & continue to develop the program based on their feedback.

Retention 115

Retention Customer Developer Programming 115

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 22, 2012

During the summer, one of the Capital Factory companies developed a plan to sell into the “mid-sized” corporate market. People with $50/mo blogs have many of the same problems as people with $2000/mo blogs but pay us 40x less, which might imply we should focus on the high-end blogger.

Marketing 235

Marketing RSS Employee Software 235

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

million which closed the first week of March 2000 – a week before the market crashed. We hired a head of technology, a head of customer service, a head of marketing, a head of strategy (which no startup should ever hire) a CFO and, ugh, 33 developers. We had 6 developers, 1 head of product management, 1 QA in India and me.

Founder 299

Founder Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 299

Up and Running

JUNE 21, 2021

Since then, more than $30 million in SBIR funds have enabled iRobot to conduct 33 research initiatives to develop new sensors and other robot capability enhancements. In 2000, when a slowdown in the industry forced a sharp refocusing of the company’s efforts, UEC enlisted the SBDC in helping expand into federal contracting.

Columbus 134

Columbus SBA SBIR Utah 134

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. Phase 2 – Develop The Product, Site or New Offers Based On Feedback From Existing Customers. Listen to their feedback & continue to develop the program based on their feedback.

Retention 105

Retention Customer Developer Programming 105

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2019

He has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry and has managed dozens of software development projects. He founded software development company Logic Software in 2000, followed by Easy Projects in 2003, with the aim to enable project managers to create, manage and update projects quickly and easily.

Artificial Inteligence 168

Artificial Inteligence Software Review Management Software Developers 168

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Are you wondering which web hosting service to use, or which programming language you need to learn, or what’s important to look for when hiring a software or web developer? About the developers. She has been working in software development since 2000, with extensive experience in website design and functionality.

Programming 98

Programming Web Oregon Software Developers 98

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

In case you haven’t noticed it, the rapid evolution of do-it-yourself (DIY) facilities for developers, including 3-D printers, SketchUp and makerspaces such as TechShop , have scaled down the cost of prototypes and hardware design by an order of magnitude. Quick low-cost design and fabrication alternatives are extremely valuable.

Technical Cofounder 153

Technical Cofounder Intellectual Property Wiki Cofounder 153

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. Phase 2 – Develop The Product, Site or New Offers Based On Feedback From Existing Customers. Listen to their feedback & continue to develop the program based on their feedback.

Retention 98

Retention Customer Developer Programming 98

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2011

Wireless music sharing must be the “hot new thing&# – right after we wrote about MyStream , Singapore-based mobile application developer Bitsmedia announces and launches Frenzapp Music , an application that allows iPhone and iPod Touch users to share and discover music.

Fractional CTO 174

Fractional CTO Germany France Singapore 174

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Simply tweet @bplans using the hashtag #askadeveloper between 9 and 10 am PDT , and our team of professional software and web developers will respond in real-time. About the developers. She has been working in software development since 2000, with extensive experience in website design and functionality.

Programming 69

Programming Oregon Software Developers Software Development 69

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. Assuming 60 companies are accepted in a specific batch, that would mean around 2000 companies applied. That’s about the same ratio that angel investors claim.

Incubator 231

Incubator Silicon Valley North America Small Business Administration 231

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2023

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. They all forget or ignore the high-profile failures that have resulted from some single-handed business decisions.

Merger 275

Merger Analytics Open Source America 275

Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2010

If you’ve been reading my book on Customer Development and follow my work on Market Type , this type of innovation is best for adding new products to existing markets. In fact the people a large firm needs for this kind of innovation looks suspiciously like startup founders and the processes needed look like Customer Development.

Search 242

Search Agile Customer Development Technical Review 242

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

We have previously raised funds in 1996 ($200 million), 2000 ($400 million) and 2008/9 ($200 million). And we chose to locate ourselves 3 blocks East of The Third Street Promenade where much new development is taking place. Let’s start with the fund. This month we closed our 4th fund of $200 million. What’s up with that?

Los Angeles 343

Los Angeles Las Vegas San Francisco Baltimore 343

View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2016

Let’s say you’re looking for a junior level developer. You post an open position in three places: a technical college’s website, a national job board with a general audience, and a developer-focused job board. Applicant interest: Proactive outreach-to-response.

Metrics 120

Metrics Founder CTO Hire Technical Review 120

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. Assuming 60 companies are accepted in a specific batch, that would mean around 2000 companies applied. That’s about the same ratio that angel investors claim.

Incubator 398

Incubator Silicon Valley North America Startup 398

Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Waterfall Development. While it sounds simple , the Build Measure Learn approach to product development is a radical improvement over the traditional Waterfall model used throughout the 20 th century to build and ship products. Waterfall Development was all about execution of the requirements document. Microsoft Windows 3.0).

Lean 120

Lean Agile Business Model Customer Development 120

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Take software developers as an example. Coming up with an idea for a new piece of software, developing it, and testing it is expensive. Most of the costs incurred by Microsoft in developing new versions of Windows involve paying engineers to write software codes. This article was first posted in The Financialist.].

Technical Review 170

Technical Review United States Software Review China 170

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In this post, I’ll provide an overview of these recent developments as well as a sense of the grand vision I see forming for Lightning around payments and Web3 applications. In contrast to DeFi’s “move fast and break things” attitude, Lightning development has been intentionally slower and more methodical. 1) Generalizable Payments .

Networking 168

Networking Global OTC Security 168

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

Students will even receive a minor in entrepreneurship as they develop their own business plans. Dysonics secured $750,000 in funding from angel investors to develop products that will reproduce three-dimensional, immersive sound in headphones. Syracuse Student Sandbox. Harvard Innovation Lab. Innovation Depot.

Incubator 202

Incubator New York City Boston Intellectual Property 202

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%

SEC 36

SEC Accredited Investor IPO Technical Review 36

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2018

David Meyer founded Adopt-a-Pet.com (formerly 1-800-Save-A-Pet.com) in 2000 as a way of ending pet overpopulation. The company had no real process in place for developing its product, even as the product was doing well. “We We were a mess,” says Moore. “We

Lean 146

Lean North America Startup Technical Review 146

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

I’ve been working with Matt since 2000. Matt Blumberg has a new book out titled Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams. It’s a follow-up to his previous book, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business. That year, we merged two companies: Return Path and Veripost.

Fractional CTO 70

Fractional CTO Cofounder Startup Lead Investor 70

Up and Running

JANUARY 27, 2020

There is much debate as to whether Peter Drucker actually said to Mark Fields, then CEO of Ford Motor Company in March 2000. Both culture and strategy are equally important, require equal amounts of time and development, and you should continually invest in them to ensure your business is successful.

Lean 107

Lean Technical Review Forecast Cofounder 107

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down. Yahoo would hit $104/share in March 2000 with a market cap of $104 billion.) (No value judgments here, VCs were doing what the market rewarded them for, and their investors expected – maximum returns.) (And

Silicon Valley 217

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2020

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. They all forget or ignore the high-profile failures that have resulted from some single-handed business decisions.

Merger 433

Merger Analytics Open Source America 433

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

From banking software to cell phones, as markets develop and grow, more user-friendly products with fewer but highly-polished features are winning the game. At the same time, tools that until yesterday were considered “less professional” or “not advanced” are replacing the more complex tools originally built for developers and geeks.

PHP 143

PHP Management HTML Framework 143

Transformify

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Via Codigo , a nonprofit organisation teaching high skilled web development and soft skills program at juvenile detention centers is pleased to announce it’s goals for 2019. Training highly- skilled web developers. Via Codigo’s mid-term plans are to expand their development training to new areas.

Peru 64

Peru Non-Compete Web Development Switzerland 64

VC Adventure

JULY 5, 2011

Today there’s another new initiative launching to help young tech companies in our community – Trada is opening CodeSpace , a free co-working space dedicated to startup developers and software engineers. CodeSpace will be located in Trada’s downtown Boulder offices and will have over 2000 sq ft of space dedicated to the effort.

Software Engineering 92

Software Engineering Software Developers Software Development Software 92

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

It’s often said that you shouldn’t talk about price during customer development interviews. 100,000/mo means Global 2000 only, large-scale projects that require multiple departments for decision and approval, long sales cycles (9-18 months) which requires massive cash spend to bide your time.

Bootstrapping 294

Bootstrapping Technical Review B2C Sales Cycle 294