Up and Running

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

On the other hand, if you receive a payment of $2000, that’s considered income or revenue, you’ll generate positive cash flow that can be reinvested in other areas. . As more people went out and bought cars and chips became harder to procure, manufacturers had to account for supply chain issues and resulting sales losses.

Balance Sheet 81

Balance Sheet Management .Net Metrics 81

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. 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. Angel investors are people too.

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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. The forecast also predicted that its 2014 sales were going to be equally uncompetitive.

India 165

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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. It's hard to think of disruptive technologies or products that didn't take many millions of dollars to implement. It's hard to explain" should not be a standard part of your sales pitch. Don't follow along.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down.

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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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Where to Play

AUGUST 18, 2020

We usually tend to think of innovation in terms of advanced technologies. Their root lies in a small ice-cream manufacturing and sale unit which was established back in 1988. In 2000, they included tentage into their portfolio and since then they have established themself as a premium brand in marriage event management.

Pakistan 62

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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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Venture Capital Balance Sheet Early Stage Software Review 269

Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

I''ve been thinking a lot lately about scaling sales. . Before this occurs, the sales process is a craft or an art - custom-made by the founder or evangelist sales VP. How do I build a repeatable, scalable sales process that is like an industrial machine - not a crafts project? 1) Enterprise Sales.

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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. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s 2012 report The Millennial Generation Research Review cites 80 percent of millennials sleep with their phone next to the bed.

Email 141

Email Software Review Technical Review Social Media 141

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. It was early 2000. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. That was market.

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Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Silicon Valley Stock 336

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. Responses ranged from, “hey, they’re in a HUGE market&# to “it is an amazing company and their technology rocks.&# But everything has intrinsic value.

Saudi Arabia 309

Saudi Arabia Valuation IPO Technical Review 309

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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Technical Review Algorithm Channel Analytics 127

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 25, 2012

I’ll let The Newsroom run its course for the first season and if it gets great reviews go back and watch it later. He described his new business in the words of his last successful business, which exited in 2000. I won’t bother watching episode two. VCs use The Formula constantly.

Technical Review 137

Technical Review Partner Email Sales 137

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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Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

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.

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Ben's Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

She left, but we were going to fire her, or give her a bad performance review” – High tech companies tend to track employee attrition in three categories: People who quit. Anybody who has ever run an enterprise sales force has heard this lie before. Some familiar lies. People who got fired.

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Technical Review Churn Rate Engineer Employee 78

Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

There are many ways to measure technical skills and check work histories and achievements, but assessment of team chemistry is a high art form. Make your choices only after you’ve done some due diligence with other companies where they’ve served. If you shoot from the hip, you’ll be shooting your own foot most of the time.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 4, 2011

We didn’t assume our students had any existing tech knowledge and just wanted to watch our videos and copy what we did and then get a result. Become A Blogger Goes Premium Due to the success of the free videos Gideon and I decided to team up and form a partnership to create a premium version of the videos that we would sell.

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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. We have also been very busy with our next release, which is due out by December 11th (but I’ll save that for a different post).

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

What was still missing was a simple way to identify a customer at the point of sale. We experimented with tap and go technology, both on cards as well as embedded in mobile phones. Previously estimated at 5% of sales, Rock and Ash now sees 30% of sales coming from repeat customers.

Programming 150

Programming Turkey Social Media Redemption 150

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In consumer packaged goods, the benchmark for a “highly successful” product launch is no easy feat: $50 million in first-year sales. Successful demand generation campaigns break down silos between marketing and sales. I see this happen far too often when people submit products to me for review to post on Product Hunt.

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Product Campaign Acquisition Social Media 110

www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Tech: Blogs. Technology Live. Talking Tech. Talking Your Tech. Sponsored Links Americans with heaps of stuff, skills and time are connecting online with tech-savvy and early adopters eager to share and rent homes, cars, tools and services in exchange for deep savings. Skip to Main Content. Game Hunters.

San Francisco 105

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

OCTOBER 16, 2019

While people often think of automation as a complete technological take over of all work-related tasks, this is not the case at all. Workers will always be needed as technology needs the assistance of a skilled hand. Imagine printing off 2000 documents, only to find they needed repeating due to a quality failure.

Product 40

Product Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Employee 40

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

As a member of the selection committee on 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. They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes.

Angel Investor 120

Angel Investor North America South America Accredited Investor 120

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 14, 2013

5 New Realities of SEO written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Back in the day, SEO was more technical and less, well, semantic. Google has even created markup standards for in depth articles as long as 2000-5000 words. Who writes it matters too.

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SEO Semantic Technical Review Algorithm 78

Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

To supplement this guide, I interviewed an expert in the home health care field: Carol Byrne is the National Sales Director for 21st Century Health Care Consultants, a consulting firm which serves home health care agencies throughout the United States. This growth is due, in large part, to an aging U.S. percent in 2000 to 19.6

North America 95

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 16, 2018

Despite practicing law and building tech startups, there was a big part of me that was unsatisfied in each of those roles. After serving various sale director roles it dawned upon me that the data entered into the CRM by sales guys working out of the office, was inaccurate. Thanks to Alison Bernstein, The Suburban Jungle ! #9-

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. The Funding Problem. Today’s Normalization.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Just ask anybody who was trying to close funding the fateful week of September 11, 2001 or even March 2000. Three reasons: There is a relative valuation between the price a VC pays and their expectations of what it will exit for in an IPO or trade sale.

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Burn Rate Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Private Equity 263

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Technology | Thursdays. Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. SALES & MARKETING. TECHNOLOGY. Technology. 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.

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Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

A Harvard Business Review (HBR) study of 4,700 public companies looked at the three years before, during, and after recessions. 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.

Marketing 121

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! One when scale started to kick in, when we hit the, you know, 200 employees at the head office, 2000 employees system wide, it started to get complex and a little bit outside of my sandbox. And now we've got technology coming in. More About Cameron Herold: The COO Alliance.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

This drop in public valuations basically means that private companies lost half of their value in a comparable way and therefore the cost of capital doubled in the past month, pushing much higher the hurdle for any additional investment, be it in sales, marketing or R&D. How long will the downturn last? So were do we go from here?

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Valuation Portfolio 48

abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

By 2011, the number of subscribers worldwide had surpassed 5 Billion and cellular communication had become an unprecedented technological revolution.” ( article via @trengriffin ). I don’t think very many people put young kids into taxis (due to trust), but they are quite comfortable doing this in an Uber. The Atlantic (3/25/12).

San Francisco 111

San Francisco San Jose Marketing Technical Review 111

ConversionXL

APRIL 27, 2019

What if there were a method—even a process—that you could apply to increase website sales? Take your website, assess it for any item on the list, make improvements, and your online sales will increase. Increasing sales online: the checklist. Wouldn’t that be swell? Well, there is. I’ve turned it into a checklist.

Sales 128

Sales Conversion Design Video 128

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a recent survey published on HubSpot, it was found that companies who put data at the core of their marketing/sales decisions improve marketing ROI by 15%-20%. In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. image source. image source.

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