Growthink Blog

JANUARY 19, 2014

The technology age has brought with it a long list of business related success stories. GoDaddy was created in 1997 as Jomax Technologies by Bob Parsons who had recently sold his other company, Parsons Technology Inc., That changed in 2001, however, and GoDaddy.com quickly grew.

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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. On July 27th, 2001 Accenture IPO’s and many of the partners grew fabulously wealthy. The size of magazines seems to be expanding, marketing seems to be up and the number of tech announcements per day is dizzying.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 29, 2017

Although most paper-based breaches and leaks occurred prior to the advent of digital technology, events like this one still occur today. of internal control weaknesses are caused by a lack of management review, also conducive to fraud and information mismanagement. Think again. Think again. The report also claims that 19.4%

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Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2021

Finance, strategy, marketing, human resources, technology, and operations are all fundamental aspects of any business. You need to generate brand awareness and positive reviews from totally impartial parties. Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, didn’t turn a profit until 2001, seven years after it was founded.

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.Net Technical Review Early Stage Finance 123

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Visionary CEOs are product and business model centric and extremely customer focused. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. They know who their customers are because they spend time talking to them. They confused world-class execution with the passion for product and customers, and market insight.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Visionary CEOs are product and business model centric and extremely customer focused. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. They know who their customers are because they spend time talking to them. They confused world-class execution with the passion for product and customers, and market insight.

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Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 3, 2020

By 2001, he was invested in the stock market and witnessed a unique situation where the stock market was in a tumble and, simultaneously, real estate was going up. As loans become due and rates balloon, tenants may decide not to renew the leases at all, or at such long terms, exposing the owner to cash flow problems.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 10, 2017

Today’s enterprise IT organizations are once again experiencing a massive upheaval due to pressure from employee forces. Launched in 2001, it is the world’s sixth most popular website regarding overall visitor traffic. Launched in 2001, it is the world’s sixth most popular website regarding overall visitor traffic.

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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. All of those companies trade at high multiples.

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Working within a network of angel investors also expands the pool of expert resources and helps divide the work of screening companies and investment due diligence. Product/Technology 0-15%. Product/Technology. Other factors (great early customer feedback).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. That is when no customers wanted to work with Internet startups because we as an industry had burned so many customers. I learned how to integrate customers into our product development process.

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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. In this time, building a successful business meant building a company that had paying customers quarter after quarter.

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Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Paul Greenberg recently wrote about the phenomena of companies declaring themselves to be focused on customer experience, and graciously giving them the opportunity to put up or shut up. He is right, and to his credit Paul saw the importance of customer experience and wrote about this in 2001. CEM/CXM: SOFTWARE OR STRATEGY.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Lesson: You dn’t want your customers to feel locked into using your software. But I loved reading them and so did my team.

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Software Review Software St. Louis API 285

Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 23, 2014

I’ve been interested in private company data since I started Feld Technologies in 1987. This kicked me in the ass very, very hard between 2001 and 2004. Sure, we did some more up front work and some formal legal diligence, but in that moment at The Kitchen, Seth and I knew that we wanted to be investors in Mattermark.

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Technical Review Angel Investor Partner Database 154

Austin Startup

APRIL 23, 2020

Customers will need more than permission to return to restaurants and other businesses that were closed because of a virus they know is still circulating. After September 11th, 2001, people were afraid to fly. Customers complained about the added friction, but they accepted it as necessary?—?and It’s easy to scare people.

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Austin Software Review Technical Review Viral 100

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

Responses ranged from, “hey, they’re in a HUGE market&# to “it is an amazing company and their technology rocks.&# It’s like people arguing that there’s a beautiful beach house in 2006 that represents great long-term value due to scarcity of similar property. But everything has intrinsic value.

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Saudi Arabia Valuation IPO Technical Review 309

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2014

In other words, don’t hire solely based on someone’s technical skill set. Here’s an example of how they made performance-based compensation work: If someone sold 100 cases in April 2000, and 100 cases in April 2001 (these numbers are unrealistically small for simplicity), their commission would be the same in both years.

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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. If you hear this lie, try to validate this claim with the actual customer. Some familiar lies. People who got fired. I’ll bet you can’t.

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Technical Review Churn Rate Employee Engineer 78

Brandanew

JULY 15, 2015

A frequency, far too low for the usual online customer. If an influencer is working with you, you need to be able to use that to propel and amplify you brand presence further and get in-roads into their customers and communities too. Do remember, organic brand searches/ interests ARE your strongest customers/ advocates.

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Social Media Media Technical Review Internet 100

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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Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

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. They do more of the same with less, often lowering quality and customer satisfaction. Companies in this category add features when customers desire greater value. Promotion. Pragmatic. Survey design.

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Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

The Startup Magazine

JULY 4, 2017

Determined to give their customers the best software solutions, they have support structures that give the best experience to entrepreneurs. It is only possible if one has the right technical knowledge. As a business person, one must understand the existing customers and their differences. Nonetheless do not feel limited.

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Securities and Exchange Commission Software Review United Kingdom Affiliate 68

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. If publicly traded technology companies are not at bubble-like prices, then private technology valuations aren’t either because they are roughly equivalent. Are the prognosticators correct?

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Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Database 78

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

The A round was done in February 2000 (end of the bull market) and my B round was done in April 2001 (bear market). People buy companies for 3 primary reasons: 1) they want the management team / talent 2) they want the technology or 3) they want the market traction (revenue, customer base, profits, etc).

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Venture Capital Term Sheet Valuation Stock Options 282

Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Combined with the usual summer slowdown, some are already raising the spectre of 2001 or 2008. It didn’t matter as much previously because venture funds used to specialize in taking different risks at different stages of a startup’s life cycle — technology risk, market acceptance risk, scaling risk, profitability risk, etc.

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Harvest Vertical IPO Early Stage 60

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. There are metrics to review. See Also: 13 Ways to Make Customers Desperately Want to Open Your Emails.

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Email Small Business Marketing Campaign 60

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

In my first company I had to raise money in April 2001 or die. year old boy and another one due in 1 months. The company did well in 2006 as we delivered a phenomenal product that got much industry acclaim at conferences and with initial customers. And importantly you start thinking about your next gig.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. I get approached about clean tech or biotech periodically – I don’t focus on these. In ad tech there’s Seth Levine at Foundry Group and both Dana Settle & Ian Sigelow at Greycroft.

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Developer Silicon Valley PR Las Vegas 366

Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

Great way to get your business represented online and bring in new customers. We like listening to our customers and seeing what they do. Jonathan: Okay, so the homepage must convey that you are caring about your customers and you need to be mobile. Here we’re talking about customer proof. What does the user want?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 2, 2012

The image to the left shows the Lord Howe stick insect, Dryocecelus australis , which was presumed extinct by 1960 but found again in 2001 on Ball’s Pyramid, the remains of an old volcano that emerged from the sea 7 million years ago. How to tell your customers that you screwed up? . “Is this a billion dollar business?:”

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

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. High burn-rates fueled by over investment – One of the most damning things that happened to the start-up markets in 97-00 and 05-08 was the overfunding of technology companies. The deal was done in late 2007.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. Customer Center. This service is temporary unavailable due to system maintenance. Loading… Tech. Personal Technology. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

HomeAway is another one of our five tech IPOs in the last five years. voice of their customers and talk them off the ledge that negative reviews wouldn’t tank their overall sales. There were only around three retailers in the US that offered customer reviews on their websites. As of today, RetailMeNot is worth $1.33

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 19, 2019

I came up with my business name, Kate’s Theatrics at about 9pm April 14, 2001. We wanted to pay tribute to his contributions by alluding to our platform’s state-of-the-art technology and algorithms that allow people with no knowledge of digital marketing to run successful campaigns that drive business results.

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Naming Cofounder Wisconsin Entrepreneur 110

BeyondVC

AUGUST 9, 2006

This is due, in large part, to the overall "bearishness" in the market. Tech stocks, in particular, are once again taking a beating on Wall Street, due in part to some investment banks cutting their ratings on the U.S. technology sector. technology sector. Oil prices are skyrocketing.

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Technical Review IPO SEC Stock 60

Babbling VC

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I believed them when they promised something and it would all pan out in due time. Unfortunately I made the mistake of thinking I knew the customer or user. Unfortunately, when the products were launched, we had realized that they really weren't our customers. I didn't wait and trusted what someone said. It never did.

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