A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
NOVEMBER 29, 2014
Will you ever get 2000? I hope so, but most companies that do get 100 never get 2000. At the low end, maybe there really isn’t a market, or the market really doesn’t want that product, at a profitable price, so you can squeeze out some early sales but it can’t get substantially bigger.
The Next Web
DECEMBER 3, 2013
age group varies according to source, but the generation is roughly composed of those born between 1981 and 2000, according to Pew Research. Marc Apple, owner and chief strategist at Forward Push Media , said that no one is on social networks 24/7, but across generations most people check email every day. “In
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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
APRIL 12, 2010
It's hard to explain" should not be a standard part of your sales pitch. That may be OK for Twitter — today — but what about the 100 other social-networking-slash-link-sharing networks that didn't survive? You just need to try it" and "trust me" don't cut it. Ask them about selling intangible benefits.
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. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 17, 2019
For example, let’s say your business needs to generate $100,000 each month in sales to make a profit. If three percent of monthly sales are funneled into marketing, that gives you$3,000 for the entire monthly budget. It is this duality which impacts where they decide to direct their limited amount of marketing expenditure.
www.usatoday.com
JULY 16, 2012
Dubbed "collaborative consumption" — or "the sharing economy" — this movement represents the newly cemented intersection of online social networking, mobile technology, the minimalist movement and heightened penny-pinching brought on by lingering economic uncertainties. Thats real money." Only 3% were online when I started AOL.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion. Bottom of the sales funnel.
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