Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Let me start with Professor Christensen’s definition: “An innovation that is disruptive allows a whole new population of consumers access to a product or service that was historically only accessible to consumers with a lot of money or a lot of skill.&#. They offered a product that didn’t even try to compare with Siebel.

Vesting 376

Vesting Framework Revenue Technology 376

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them.

Retention 98

Retention Customer Developer Programming 98

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 13, 2022

The Profit First Professional organization is designed to support accountants, bookkeepers, and other financial professionals to substantially differentiate themselves in the market. I wanna point out how to make money with your current products, man, such an important lesson about leveraging what you've already done to get more from it.

Employee 90

Employee Design Networking Differentiation 90

Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

percent in 2000 to 19.6 In 2013, North America accounted for just over 40 percent of the global home health care revenue. See Also: 12 Tips for a Wildly Productive Home Office. Unless you have an unorthodox business model, Medicare and Medicaid will be your primary source of revenue. population. percent by 2030.

North America 95

North America United States Technical Review America 95

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Article: Behind Every Great Product. I titled the paper, “Behind Every Great Product” and it was inspired by the classic Good Product Manager / Bad Product Manager by Ben Horowitz. The paper proved popular and helped many teams to get a better understanding of just what product was all about.

Product 60

Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

Hearpreneur

APRIL 3, 2016

The name of our company came from the name of our flagship product. Since we’re a mobile app company we wanted a product name that was short, easily remembered, non-controversial and at least somewhat descriptive of the service. I had actually developed the logo in 1999 and it is now on the back of my entire product line.

Naming 48

Naming Technical Review PR LLC 48

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

The strategy of GigaOm and where they differentiate in the market. An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. Founded in 2000 in New Brunswick, NJ. Paul discussed his perspective having been at SAP Ventures. Competitors: InformationBuilders , DataWatch. 406 Ventures.

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Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Within a year, by late 2000 / early 2001 consulting firms were firing people en masse. Since that date the S&P 500 is up 2.45% while Accenture stock is up 206% with revenue of $23 billion and a market cap of $32 billion. The things that always differentiated Accenture? In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.

Turkey 302

Turkey Differentiation IP Technical Review 302

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. After twelve months Handspring’s revenue was $170 million. They never understood Market Type. Why does Market Type matter?

Customer Development 220

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 220

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2022

As a revenue-driven founder specializing in sales and business development, Melissa has learned how to build companies with very few resources — by automating what she could, outsourcing wherever possible, and inspiring talented people to join her team with shared focus and enthusiasm. There's a recent episode.

Technical Review 81

Technical Review Demand Cofounder Video 81

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 9, 2010

Most people don’t know that Zappos had a very turbulent history when it was founded, or about the many personal sacrifices that Tony Hsieh (and early Zappos employees made) to help Zappos achieve such extraordinary success and $1 billion dollars in revenues in fewer than 10 years.

Social Media 93

Social Media Differentiation Stock Small Business 93

BeyondVC

JUNE 3, 2006

It would have been great if the CEO started the presentation with a clear and compelling message of the company (not the product) on where the world would be 5 years from now and how his product or service today would grow to meet this vision of the future.

Portfolio 60

Portfolio Early Stage Differentiation Revenue 60

ConversionXL

APRIL 27, 2019

Learn why people need your product, which problems it solves, and reflect it back to them. If your main landing pages (homepage, product pages, etc.) Marketing and product teams. They like to compare products by looking at a couple of simple parameters, like price and maybe something else (e.g. You should read it.

Sales 128

Sales Conversion Design Video 128

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Smith identified that when men and women specialize their skills, and also importantly “trade” with one another, the end result is a rise in productivity and standard of living for everyone. In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. The company was acquired by ebay in January 2007.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 13, 2017

The most successful brands in the world spend a substantial amount of time planning future products and services. Today, AWS is on pace for a $14 billion revenue year – just for one relatively new segment of Amazon’s business. Few Brands have the ability to single-handedly create groundbreaking products or services.

Small Business 53

Small Business Startup Global Design 53

ConversionXL

JUNE 14, 2012

Understand why people need your product, what problems it solves for them and reflect it back to them. If your main landing pages (home page, product page etc) don’t have a value proposition or they don’t understand it (see #7), you are losing sales. If you sell mass market products (e.g. Will it break? Will it work?

Sales 129

Sales Conversion Design Technical Review 129

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). might have been a lot less differentiated. The one major thing that Twitter doesn’t seem to have figured out quite yet is that platform thing or at least how to encourage a bunch of 3rd-party developers to build meaningful add-on products.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

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. ” As a result, AdWords boasts over one million customers and over $30B in annual revenue. The best place to focus your efforts to improve conversion are within the product itself. Basic conversion is easy to understand.

Metrics 93

Metrics Conversion Internet Acquisition 93

ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2018

Revenue, downloads, and sign-ups are all examples of lagging indicators. Lagging indicators are often very difficult to change directly, especially if you have an established product or service. Common examples are Revenue and Conversions. A lagging indicator is an outcome. The data point. A/B Testing.

Marketing 133

Marketing Metrics Programming Design 133

Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

The kinds of places where you have to sign an NDA when you walk in the lobby… When I lived and worked in the bay area (2000-2005) virtually all the startups were down on the peninsula somewhere. I think the long-tail (size in terms of market cap, revenue, employees etc – pick one doesn’t matter) is moving towards the city.

Silicon Valley 185

Silicon Valley San Francisco San Jose Startup 185

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

This highest quality of the traffic information, never achieved before, together with the perfect applications generate significant revenues for the operator and maintain customers’ loyalty. Craze Productions. For mobile backhauling applications, FibroLAN is now offering the Falcon SE product line. Fibrolan. -

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

VC Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2011

The company will also receive a single grant of 400,000 shekels to set up a beta-site to prove the product or service’s application in the local market. “ Ophir has a history of impressive revenue growth. PhotoMedex develops excimer laser, LED light systems and skin care products for dermatological applications.

China 90

China Cofounder India 90