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How to Radically Stand Out with Brand Marketing

ConversionXL

Jeff Bezos’s private space technology company Blue Origin was founded back in 2000. Your brand is how you differentiate, build awareness , and sear your solution into customers’ minds so they think of you when that time comes. But what if your true mission is to “reduce the amount of boring content on the internet”?

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In a Strong Wind Even Turkeys Can Fly

Both Sides of the Table

Increasingly it became difficult to tell any system integration company apart and there was a whole new breed of competitors in the market helping companies build Internet businesses. Andersen had lost its long-time CEO, George Shaheen, was hemorrhaging staff and wasn’t exactly known as being an Internet pioneer.

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8 Questions to Help Decide if You Should be Raising Money Now

Both Sides of the Table

I’m talking about understanding the norms in the industry of what it historically takes to build a successful Internet business and where you think you fall on that spectrum given the kind of business you are. They get the PR bump. As anyone raising money in April 2000, September 2001 or September 2008 can tell you that.

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Applied Venture and the inexorable rise of value-add VC

The Equity Kicker

From around 2000, and perhaps coinciding with the need to work harder to win deals as opportunities dried up after the internet bubble burst, individual partners at VC firms began adding ‘helping CEOs win’ to their job descriptions. . The most visible symptom of this trend was VCs writing blogs to show just how value add they were.

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

Both Sides of the Table

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. Our 2000 fund is the single best fund of its vintage.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Three years later, you can’t throw a stone on the internet without finding articles starting to talk about the importance of craft in content. Thanks to Niesha Kennedy-Robinson, Kennedy Robinson PR ! #9- I wanted a short and simple business name that could get my point across but also differentiate me. 9- Simply what I do.

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