A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 12, 2010

Google was the 11th major search engine, not the first. Their technology proved superior, but "a better search engine" was hardly a new idea. In retrospect we say that Google transformed how people find information, and further, how advertising works on the Internet. They were the disruptors, but they didn't profit from the disruption.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Social media is seen as something new that can be bolted onto existing CRM and loyalty management platforms. Engineers initially failed to understand the new possibilities of the new paradigm. In 2000, we launched a loyalty program for a bank in Turkey, Akbank. The most common approach is to give bonus points for social sharing.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Without it, the page will take longer to load, which can damage the user experience and, ultimately, search engine rankings. A slow site means a poor user experience, and search engines will respond accordingly. Often, removing the scripts is as simple as disabling a tag in Google Tag Manager. Image source ).

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

As we collect more and more data, it’s becoming increasingly hard to piece together and manage that data, and more importantly, to use that data in real-time to build better campaigns. Contact Management: The Beginning. launched a contact management software. Data Management Platform ∩ Marketing automation capabilities.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 23, 2023

2- Personal inspiration Photo Credit: Terina Nicole I launched my business 23 years ago in the year 2000. The primary objective was to devise a business moniker that is readily memorable and efficiently optimized for search engines, while concurrently possessing a branding advantage due to its simplistic nomenclature.

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Transformify

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The teenagers work as freelancers while Via Codigo manages the communication with the clients. Since December, Via Codigo's clients can query for Via Codigo as a special skill using Transformify's search engine, and easily hire Via Codigo developers. “It’s like hiring an agency at a freelancers rate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2019

They know leadership is all about managing their own complicated, illogical, and fallible human foibles, as well as the people they depend on. Thankfully, most mistakes won’t be as spectacular as the America Online merger with Time Warner for $350 billion, back in 2000, engineered by then superstar entrepreneurs Stephen M.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 I understand his frustration. in Computer Science.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The emerging “industrial Internet” revolution, enabled by the convergence of networking and information technology with engineered physical systems and associated services, is enabling a new generation of “smart systems” and an innovation-based growth engine for the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. If you don’t manage what is said about you in social networks it could be detrimental. So tools in the areas of social CRM, social customer support & real-time data management will emerge. ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google].

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Ben's Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

How is it possible that when you lose a top-rated employee before you can say “unwanted attrition”, the manager carefully explains how her performance fell off? . “We When the facts don’t align with the good news, a clever manager will find the narrative to make everybody feel better—until the next meeting.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

Good discussion about the tension between being a maker and manager … Becoming A Boss - [link]. Good discussion about the tension between being a maker and manager … Becoming A Boss - [link]. Thanks To Facebook, Strongest Year For IPOs Since 2000 With $21.5 Facebook Has Some Tips | Search Engine Land - [link].

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

He is a co-founder and managing partner of Relationship Impact , a consulting firm focused on helping great leaders build great leadership teams. And I really wanted to get into management consulting field. We rode the re-engineering process, re-engineering craze in the 1990s, but we did it from a change management perspective.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2020

A graduate of SAIT Polytechnic with a diploma in electrical engineering and a bachelor’s degree in Applied Systems Technology, Ali spent several years working for several major corporations in the information technology sector. Then, in 2000, he shifted gears and founded a successful commercial property development company.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

While all your competitors are trying to copy your model, you’re already on to the next thing on your engineering team. And the product itself is invite-only so they can control volume and everybody has expectations managed. I know because I did this in early 2000.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

He holds a Bachelors in Electrical and Computer Engineering with University Honors and a Masters in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University; and a Ph.D. Another company which is going to have widespread impact is eShares, eShares is going to change the way the private companies manage their equity.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Instead, the product manager should keep iterating on the press release until they’ve come up with benefits that actually sound like benefits. Great product launches manage those expectations; failed ones let them run wild. Suspense piques potential customers’ interest while also managing expectations. Test launch tiny products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

They know leadership is all about managing their own complicated, illogical, and fallible human foibles, as well as the people they depend on. Thankfully, most mistakes won’t be as spectacular as the America Online merger with Time Warner for $350 billion, back in 2000, engineered by then superstar entrepreneurs Stephen M.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2017

They know leadership is all about managing their own complicated, illogical, and fallible human foibles, as well as the people they depend on. Thankfully, most mistakes won’t be as spectacular as the America Online merger with Time Warner for $350 billion, back in 2000, engineered by then superstar entrepreneurs Stephen M.

Leadership 158

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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. They bought distribution and engineering talent. I like EdgeCast and spent time with the management team. So my guess is that Tweetup needs to go “multi-stream&# (as in Facebook, MySpace, etc.). There is also another inherent weakness.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Up until late August, Lightning Labs had capped the channel capacity and payment size for users of their popular implementation of the network to ~$2000 USD and ~$500 respectively to better protect user funds with experimental software. . This could change very quickly, however, with a new bull run.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2013

They know leadership is all about managing their own complicated, illogical, and fallible human variables, as well as the people they depend on. Thankfully, most mistakes won’t be as spectacular as the America Online merger with Time Warner for $350 billion, back in 2000, engineered by then superstar entrepreneurs Stephen M.

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

However, we needed a head of engineering to recruit and lead a larger team to accomplish our larger goals. I felt that I had to re-educate myself on the engineering talent landscape given how fast it is evolving, and had a deep curiosity regarding what the best engineering leaders of right now looked like.

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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The generally accepted hourly wage calculation used by the staffing industry is Annual Salary divided by 2000 Hours. If you sum up these costs and divide them by 2000 Hours then you are looking at $1.15 Adjust the annual average to what it should be on an hourly basis. So for someone making $70k that comes out to around $35/hr.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 16, 2018

At that time, in the year 2000 there were no spam filters so it was pretty easy to contact other translation companies to setup cooperation. Today we work with more than 500 freelance translators every month and offer mothers the ability to work from home as a translation project manager. I always loved languages.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 4, 2017

However, if you chose to work with a partner ensure they offer user-friendly front end, a gaming management system, payment module and access to betting markets and top events. Spend some time forming campaigns that include the use of television ads, magazines, the search engine optimization and many others.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Joel on Software Fog Creek Compensation by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 30, 2000 At Fog Creek Software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder. So all Fog Creek software engineers are ranked at one of several different levels, level 8 through level 15.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Ajeet learned the ropes of enterprise startups at Aster Data Systems , where he was Senior Director of Product Management. We were mostly selling our product to engineers. Selling to an IT person or businessperson in the middle of Chicago is very different from selling to a LinkedIn engineer. You can scale much better.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

In 2010, SailPoint closed two strategic corporate transactions to broaden its product engineering and services teams and further expand its global footprint. As part of this agreement, SailPoint also assumed responsibility for the Control-SA engineering and support team.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Ajeet learned the ropes of enterprise startups at Aster Data Systems , where he was Senior Director of Product Management. We were mostly selling our product to engineers. Selling to an IT person or businessperson in the middle of Chicago is very different from selling to a LinkedIn engineer. You can scale much better.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Are the logistics manageable? I’m never surprised when I see product development driven by engineers proceeding at top speed developing the next cool thing. You value creativity in your engineering staff, but it translates into profits only when pointed in the right direction. Can you acquire them at a sustainable cost?

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

I grew up on a family potato farm in SE Idaho and I have a PhD in Engineering from Stanford (also known as The Farm). Our business is located in House District 44 (Mike May), and Senate District 30 (Ted Harvey) and most of our ~15 employees live in these same or surrounding Districts in the South Denver area. Citrix Presentation Server 4.0,

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2019

When I left Procter & Gamble as VP in Global Business Services and IT after a career of 27 years, I’d been associated with setting up the first shared services operation in the Philippines in 1993 — program managing an $8 billion dollar outsourcing deal. And then in the middle 2000’s Domino’s began a sharp decline.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 4, 2010

In 1998 Goto.com , a small startup (later Overture, now part of Yahoo ! ), created the pay per click search engine and advertising system and demo’d it at the TED conference. Strategic Management Journal, Volume 9, Issue S1, pages 41–58, Summer 1988. [2] Google is a $25 billion dollar company with most of its revenue from AdWords.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Blockbuster is a classic example of how complacent management can lead to a business’s downfall. Ironically, the founder of Netflix, Reed Hastings, made an offer to Blockbuster to buy out Netflix for $50 million in 2000. As well, Yahoo didn’t care to build a robust search engine feature on its platform. Blockbuster.

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