Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

This can often happen when there is a good product built but no real customer adoption yet. million which closed the first week of March 2000 – a week before the market crashed. We built 4 products simultaneously with no market feedback. We had 6 developers, 1 head of product management, 1 QA in India and me.

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 18, 2022

While the Gen Z and millennial populations have a few differences, what they have in common is their love for technology. The right technology will be an incentive to recruit younger generations to work with your nonprofit. The millennial generation was born between 1980 and 2000. We’ll look at them one at a time. Millennials.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

But, increasingly, the Apple hype-fests are a marketing—not a product—showcase. For product launches, long-term success relies on cornerstones of marketing research and execution, like a strong value proposition and full-funnel campaign. Yet while product launches are a risk, they’re not as risky as you think. Image source ).

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2011

Chris Dixon is one of my favorite people in tech and writes one of the few blogs I read religiously. If you don’t read it and you care about tech & entrepreneurship, you should. He’s thoughtful about markets, investors, products and is always very well reasoned in his arguments.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

OCTOBER 16, 2019

We will today look at a few solutions that can increase productivity and efficiency. While people often think of automation as a complete technological take over of all work-related tasks, this is not the case at all. You only have to look at production factories to see that this is not the case. Implement Automation.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

But VC is an “illiquid asset&# so funds didn’t disappear quickly - In 2000/01 the stock market quickly adjusted punishing investors in the NASDAQ and in individual public technology stocks. side note: our last fund at GRP Partners is currently ranked as the 5th best performing fund of the year 2000.

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2018

I was thinking about some of the cool things I saw, read, noticed and digested around the world of tech for 2018. You’ll notice underlying the top 10 is what I regard to be the biggest shift in tech at the moment is the realisation that we have a technology wildfire raging. A bonus blog post for your holiday perusal.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. I believe that huge financial, productivity and technical gains come from new innovation rather than derivative thinking. He said that data suggests people prefer to “buy high, sell low.&# And so it goes in tech investing.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2017

There’s a lot you can say about the cohort born between 1982 and 2000. A generation brought up with constantly evolving technologies, Millennials are the most digitally aware and technically savvy of any preceding age group. They share constantly. Millennials heart online shopping. They’re just doing so in a thoughtful way.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Price is as important as any other feature to determine product/market “fit.” Or seen a review of an iPhone app hung up on pricing trivialities: “It would be pretty good at $0.99, but it’s not worth $1.99.” But I disagree. simple enough to be self-service). . $1/mo simple enough to be self-service).

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Berkonomics

MARCH 23, 2023

We use gestures or our voice to control our engagement with our technology. With 7 billion people on the planet today, there are more than 6 billion mobile subscriptions, up from just 720 million in 2000. None of this could be mined successfully in the past generation of technology. 62% look at online peer reviews.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Not unless you’re Elon Musk and Governor Abbott has a smile as wide as the Texas Panhandle or you’re Joe Rogan and every tech bro in Austin is so pumped to point to your move (and Tim Ferriss’ move) here as some kind of stamp of approval that they never needed Silicon Valley. Truth be told, if I didn’t welcome you, it’s possible no one would.

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View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2016

Researching relevant job boards for particular positions can help cut down on the resume clutter, but founders should also work to actively reduce the number of resumes they review with each person they interview. The resume-to-interview metric is simply a measurement of how many resumes startups review for each person interviewed.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2012

President Obama plans to support this recovery and growth with the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership initiative, working to ensure that innovative products are created in the United States. Additionally, the IT tech industry in India has paid more than $15 billion in taxes to the U.S. India-based firms. economy and job growth.

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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. We decided that if we were not going to sell, we were going to really up our game,” says Abbie Moore, chief product officer. The result was a reframing of how they understood their mission. We were a mess,” says Moore. “We

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NZ Entrepreneur

APRIL 5, 2022

When you own a business nearly every day is a busy day, dealing with customers, troubleshooting, strategising for growth while you work diligently to make things bigger and better. Hyperfibre offers speeds of 2000 Mbps, 4000 Mbps and 8000 Mbps. Consideration 4: DO YOU HAVE WORLD-CLASS SPEED?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 12, 2010

That phrase died during the tech-bubble along with "portal" and "think outside the box," yet the concept has returned. A disruptive product causes such a large market shift that entire companies collapse (the ones who don't "get it") and new markets appear. Most technology we now consider "disruptive" wasn't conceived that way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2013

billion from 49 listings, and represented the strongest annual period for IPOs since 2000. Yet 2013 is still projected by The Fiscal Times as a difficult IPO opportunity for startups, due to choppy markets, continuing fiscal uncertainty, and the Facebook fiasco. Don’t try to talk your way to a deal before you have the documentation.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

In the early 80’s he left academia to work on venture capital investing with Jim Simons, Renaissance Technologies. Infonautics went public in 1996 and Half.com was sold to eBay in 2000. 100 get serious due diligence where the entrepreneur meets with several people from the firm. and Half.com.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Within a year, by late 2000 / early 2001 consulting firms were firing people en masse. Investment in training, adherence to process, global knowledge sharing systems, quality control / partner reviews and campus recruitment programs that attracted the right talent. Most of the Internet startup consulting firms went bankrupt.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Key Takeaway: In a recent Texas Tech Survey, out of 2000 consumers, 89% of them claimed they had a business that they loved enough that they would gladly recommend — only 29% of them actually did it. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Why is there such a gap? Like this show? Duct Tape Transcript.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

That is a 65% increase in the number of IPOs over 2012, and the highest proceeds raised since the year 2000. With the key social media platforms today, an entrepreneur can tune a product, build a brand, and grow the business with very low cost and a high interactivity never before possible. Women are a growing force as entrepreneurs.

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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. It’s a situation that causes confusion, stress, and it becomes an excuse for productivity and performance issues. “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” . The perfect strategy doesn’t exist, so keep it lean.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

We are not in a technology bubble. We have not even taken a major step towards a technology bubble. So let us first ask if “a very high percentage of the population&# has bought into a distorted premise about the future growth prospects for technology. In the last bubble, the S&P hit 44x in January 2000.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

As a member of one of these local organizations, I use Angelsoft on the investor side to review business plans, deal flow, and help orchestrate presenters at monthly meetings of the local organization. Keiretsu Forum. The Founding Chapter is in Silicon Valley, California, (naturally), and I have a connection there if you need a start.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Narayana Murthy pulled a Michael Dell when he called time on his two-year-long retired life and retook charge at Infosys, the Indian information technology (IT) giant he had founded three decades ago in a small apartment with six others. Infosys would now be a technology solutions provider. All the way from 1993 to 2000.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Discover the importance of adapting traditional SEO tactics to accommodate the advancements in AI technology, from content creation to technical optimization. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! John (04:23): Yeah, we had a 2000 page site that we did just that to 1400 pages and immediately lifted their results.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

It’s also meaningless if they had four $200 million funds and the last one they closed was in 2000. Unfortunately over the period of 2000-2010 the VC industry hasn’t performed well and therefore the number of funds going forward is likely to reduce greatly. GRP’s last fund was in 2000. What is a VC fund?

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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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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

Lately, everybody seems to be talking about a new technology bubble. A Comparison Between Today’s “Bubble” and the Last Tech Bubble. In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. Are the prognosticators correct? Will we head mercilessly into another crash?

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2013

The first two were prohibitive due to timezone difficulties. By process of elimination & in small part due to my Israeli heritage, Tel Aviv won the day. Tel Avivians are extraordinarily open minded, and if you are in tech, expect to be invited for dinners & tiyulim ( short trips). All in a 2000 sq ft shared workspace.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2022

Her previous startup, a real estate tech company, was acquired in 2019. 17:06] What’s been the hardest part from a tech perspective? [18:37] Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! My first two was in real estate tech. Melissa is the CEO and Co-founder of Webinar. eWebinar.com. Like this show?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2010

Over time, innovations outside the company (demographic, cultural, new technologies, etc.) He believed that large companies handle sustaining innovation – evolutionary changes in their markets, products, etc. Customer and Agile Development may be the methodologies that large companies need to build innovative new products.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

One of the greatest threats to long-term success is when companies aren’t vigilant enough about responding to the changes in their market—whether it’s by failing to spot product or channel fatigue, acknowledge new competition, make needed updates to products or marketing adjustments in a timely fashion, or embrace new technology coming online.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2 preamble issues having read the comments on TC today: 1: I know that the prices of startup companies is much great in Silicon Valley than in smaller towns / less tech focused areas in the US and the US prices higher than many foreign markets. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. I acknowledged this in the article.

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