Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. It included one firm who I asked not to call Salesforce.com as a reference (they were our largest pilot customer) and in their kindness they called Marc Benioff (the CEO) and asked his opinion. I thought, what would I do if I was trying to sell to a customer.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 14, 2016

See Also: How and Why to Collect Customer Email Addresses. MailChimp is ideal for the startup and small business customer that needs to grow an email list with industry-leading tools and best practices. I use Mailchimp for the distribution of weekly newsletters, and for list growth via opt-ins for multiple types of campaigns.

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Mucker Lab

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Most brilliant “Internet of Things” ideas are quicksand for capital unless you have the branding, vertical integration and customer lock-in that Apple achieved. However, the rise of the Internet equalized if not flipped the ratio as the web (and mobile) created a new product category and distribution platform.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

They taught you about customers, markets and profits. Startups needed millions of dollars of funding just to get their first product out the door to customers. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. VC’s went back to basics, to focus on building companies while their founders worked on building customers.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. Why bother with all the extra costs, people, programs, etc?

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

You’re going out to acquire customers. So this has always been our most significant focus area, whether in 2022, 2021, or 2001. . So they have about 60 million customers now, and they have a view of the net present value of each customer when they’re onboarding them and their models to show it. David Zhang.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

The idea of a social network inside of an organization wasn’t a thing yet so that was a little bit scary and even the linkage between healthy behaviors and saving healthcare costs and becoming more productive and being less absent and all of that, a lot of that research has emerged over the last 10 years. . ” This was around 2001.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

stock market: The change led by NASDAQ in early 2001 to valuing stocks in increments from one-eighth of a dollar down to one cent. With that great decrease in cost to launch something, you have the emergence of all these new funds. The spread he's talking about is the decimalization of the U.S. Two orders of magnitude. "Two

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

We downsized from 35 people in 2001 and are now a size that allows us to work directly with clients. We came up with a positioning strategy that helps them sell value-added when recession-pinched customers are squeezing them for low rates. Having fun again. Same partner all along: Jorge Alonso, Creative Director. Absolutely.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

And content distribution. Rita McGrath: The opportunity for getting close to customers revived again after Apple introduced the first iPod. We forget, we think this is ancient history, it was 2001, I mean it wasn’t that long ago. Well today you can be an Adobe customer for $7.99 Rita McGrath: Right.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. Once again, this is an asset against which the marginal cost to host a dog is near zero. annual GMV. As a result, productivity naturally improves.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

The opportunity cost of the money I have not made on crypto is insane because I first was talking about crypto in 2011 as I’ve been in financial services for a long time. I took on a senior role helping Silicon Valley Bank think about the future of their interactions with startup customers. In general, I am not very long crypto.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

2) Help Others & Improve Upon Customer Service. I started my business namely to help others and to improve upon the aloof customer service being presented in the IT industry. I heard horror stories about how their technicians had chips on their shoulders, belittling customers with their elitist attitudes. That’s it.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

We recently wrapped up our strategy offsite, an annual event that brings together the members of our very distributed team – 12 different cities in four different countries – to discuss what our aspirations and ambitions are for the coming year. So from day one, my knowledge about how to do a startup was zero.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

No venue wants to be told that their product is worthless, and no customer wants to go see a show that’s unsellable,” said Robert Graff. In October of 2001, Webster, McCarthy, and Graff decided to do just that and GoldStar was born. Within a few months they had received positive feedback and around a 100 paying customers.

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