Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job. He tripled Microsoft’s sales to $78 billion and profits more than doubled from $9 billion to $22 billion.

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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. billion for a company with less than $50 million in sales. Yahoo would hit $104/share in March 2000 with a market cap of $104 billion.)

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

There’s a question on whether all this GPU hogging, and building capacity is not just a bubble waiting to pop, similar to the Telecom crash in the early 2000’s. Seth Rosenberg at Graylock published ‘ Product Led AI’ – pointing to opportunities for founders building AI-first companies.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 16, 2018

One thing led to another, and my husband and I ended up getting an exclusive distribution contract in Canada for a major French brand. After being successful distributing other companies’ products, the next logical move was to create our own–bblüv baby essentials. 11- Solve reporting tools issues. Photo Credit: Oscar Macía.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. My blog was wiped out.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Jeff Bezos’s private space technology company Blue Origin was founded back in 2000. If you spam the non-buyers with sales CTAs, you’ll only annoy them. Build systems and processes that enable your team to create and distribute content seamlessly. They show original sales intelligence data and they post relatable memes.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

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. Their recommendations derive from sales and EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) for the companies in their study: ( Image source ).

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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

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

Though it wasn’t intended, the last two articles I wrote on the PlainFlow blog have formed a series: The Modern SaaS Stack and the Unexploited Amount of Data is a walkthrough that shows how companies use Modern SaaS Stack to cover their Marketing/Support/Sales activities from day-0. All manual operations. Eloqua was the proof of that.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 3, 2015

The content creation and distribution aspects of inbound get most of the attention. This post will tell you what else you’ll need to create an inbound strategy that results in more sales. The Difference Between Getting Leads And Making Sales. A Few Tips For Turning Inbound Leads Into Sales.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

s form of no-holds-barred capitalism, our financial markets were slow to adopt the idea, with the trend really only taking hold during the heady securitization period of the mid-2000’ s. Sometimes buyers are able secure continued tax revenue, applied either as a property millage or sales tax. Ironically, given the U.S.’s

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Genuine VC

AUGUST 3, 2012

CEO Anne Raimondi and my partner Rob were colleagues together at eBay in the early 2000’s before she went on the lead product and/or marketing at many household internet names like Zazzle, InsiderPages, and SurveyMonkey. children’s apparel annually, and online retail sales overall are growing 10% year over year.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

SailPoint also signed a strategic partnership with BMC Software, enabling BMC’s worldwide sales force and distribution partners to resell SailPoint IdentityIQ™ as the identity management component of BMC’s business service management portfolio.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. SALES & MARKETING. 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. The Goods: Your Business Toolbox | Thursdays. Finance | Tuesdays.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. SALES & MARKETING. Copyright © 2000 inc.com. CDW your 1-stop resource for configuration, activation & distribution. The Goods: Your Business Toolbox | Thursdays. Finance | Tuesdays. Innovation | Fridays. Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. Todays Small Business News | Daily. Tools & Research.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2020

Now, the company and its CEO Ella Gudwin are taking that a step further—offering their resources and capabilities to assist in the manufacturing and distribution of PPE for essential workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 effort. He arrived at the project site as a young optometrist to find 2000 people waiting to have their eyes checked.

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001. The percentage is the 12/31/11 portfolio value (including cumulative distributions) divided by the called capital. Accel Partners VII (2000): 122% (97%).

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Now, the company and its CEO Ella Gudwin are taking that a step further—offering their resources and capabilities to assist in the manufacturing and distribution of PPE for essential workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 effort. He arrived at the project site as a young optometrist to find 2000 people waiting to have their eyes checked.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. Yet despite literally patenting ride-hailing in 2000, his own venture, Sidecar, lost out to the more aggressive scaling of Uber and Lyft.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The mom-and-pop business became an instant success and its annual sales continued to skyrocket each year. In 2000, global giant Unilever bought out Ben & Jerry’s for about $326 million in order to eliminate competition with the corporation’s brands, Breyer’s and Good Humor. Energy Brands was founded in 1996 by J.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Join others who code to change the world for the better and explore distributed computing, examine the confluence between businesses and technology, and debate the power of technology on urban development. Don’t miss the small business sales and marketing event of the year! Hopefully we will see you there! FutureStack.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

After more than 15 years leading Sales and Marketing teams in the Media & Publishing spaces, he’s developed a unique passion for helping creators become more successful by leveraging books as a catalyst for opportunities and sustainable revenue. And again, for a lot of people, that's what they were concerned with was distribution.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Since 2000, the number of IBD shops has almost been cut in half. This could be 4-5 shoppers per day in a typical store and an extra bike sale per day. Tip 6: Focus on the Life of a Cyclist, Not the Initial Sale | Donny Perry. Focus on sales where you create or control the distribution.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Since 2000, the number of IBD shops has almost been cut in half. This could be 4-5 shoppers per day in a typical store and an extra bike sale per day. Tip 6: Focus on the Life of a Cyclist, Not the Initial Sale | Donny Perry. Focus on sales where you create or control the distribution.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Since 2000, the number of IBD shops has almost been cut in half. This could be 4-5 shoppers per day in a typical store and an extra bike sale per day. Tip 6: Focus on the Life of a Cyclist, Not the Initial Sale | Donny Perry. Focus on sales where you create or control the distribution.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Does the photo look like something taken on a mobile phone from 2000? Digital marketers and experts around the world say that content SaaS startups should spend an average of 50% resources on strategic content distribution. Look at your product photo and description. Does the description look as if it was written by a five-year-old?

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. But the second year (2000) was simply astounding: nearly $90 million! Founding Akamai.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 8, 2019

It’ll stand as a silent sales person for you for a long time until they’re ready to say, “you know, I need a new HVAC system. That’s it, 10 chapters, 20,000 words, 2000 words per chapter. Now, anyone can write a book really fast, get it online and start making money and helping people. Anyone can do this.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

As you can see from the chart their data suggests there are about $25 billion of VC distributions per year in the US. In 2000 our industry had more than $100 billion in LP money. Nothing was more heart warming than the photo of David Karp hugging Bijan Sabet after the sale to Yahoo! The top 2% do not drive 98% of the returns.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

They all went away; they got rolled up in 1999 and 2000 into these too-big-to-fail banking operations," Davidson tells us. IPOs by year, 1980-2011, with pre-IPO last 12-month sales less than (small firms) or greater than (large firms) $50 million (2009 purchasing power). Brown & Sons, Montgomery Securities. The question is why?

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

Because of the magical ordering system and the ability to efficiently organize a distributed set of drivers, Uber can operate effectively in markets where it simply didn’t make sense to have a dense supply of taxis. According to this NADA report , total dealership sales (including service) is about $730 billion annually. New Use Cases.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Marketing isn’t scheduling a launch and recruiting isn’t timing the start-dates of the next 50 hires in customer service and sales. We didn’t line up that press and have those sales materials and ensure code-quality high enough to scale on day one, without predictability. This means you can — and should!

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Later on, we’ll dive into research that shows how this type of imagery can increase your sales. Some of the leading ecommerce retailers of luxury goods such as SSENSE, and Mr Porter only have sales about twice per year. We once had a client that would have sales bi-weekly, and this created a huge issue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2019

According to IBM , companies have captured more data in the last two years than in the previous 2000 years. Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. Every day, we create 2.5 Every day, we create 2.5

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abovethecrowd.com

AUGUST 23, 2020

It has to do with the trends in how much effort the investment banks put into marketing and distribution, versus how much effort they put in historically. Twenty years ago, each investment bank had massive sales teams which were 10X larger than they are today. So what have they been replaced with?

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Even worse, DVD sales were starting to lag, and a Hollywood backlash further muddied the situation. The year was 2000, and the hardest part about the AdWords project was simply getting agreement that they could work on it. Legal wasn't used to distribution via IP enabled devices.

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A Crowded Space

JANUARY 17, 2019

There are millions of chess players in the world, and I believe the vast majority of serious players know their ELO ranking and also know exactly what it means to be 1000, 1500, or 2000. Could we rank all of the sales people in the same way? It’s also remarkably accurate and a very good predictor of the outcome of a match.

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