ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The New York Times, January 2001. Finally, in December 2001, came the big reveal: Ginger was the Segway. . Complex products and decisions—rife in the B2B world—encourage us to default to our heuristic judgment. Secrecy can manufacture scarcity: timed or limited releases for physical products, exclusivity for services.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Facts: Many popular startup companies are tech companies because they can create highly specific products quickly and distribute it to a large audience fast, but a startup does not necessarily have to be a technology company. Create a specific product that satisfies the needs of your target market. million after five years.

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Brandanew

JULY 15, 2015

While the brand/ products had found organic mentions all over the Internet and who’s who media of their particular industry, the brand itself had little presence on social media or Google. Digital natives was coined as a term in 2001 by Marc Prensky. Marketing leader Michael Hyatt posted a very critical post last year- here.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

By contrast, Staples closed down some underperforming facilities but increased its workforce by 10% during the recession, mainly to support the high-end product categories and services it introduced. Use that intelligence to inform product portfolio and investment choices.”. Where do your consumers fall? Premium-brand market leaders [.]

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

Due to competitive markets we ended up with a pretty good term sheet until we needed to raise money in April 2001 and then we got completely screwed. The more senior members you have (say you already have a CEO, CTO, VP marketing, VP Biz Dev, VP Products) then the less options you’ll need and vice versa.

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Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Combined with the usual summer slowdown, some are already raising the spectre of 2001 or 2008. Normal distributions do not exist; standard deviations are meaningless. Yes, it’s a big risk because the market can turn at any time, but if you believe in your product, and if your customers see the value, stop worrying about VCs.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

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. We started building the product 18 months ago so we are in better shape than 99% of start-ups. Free product. I wasn’t feeling it. Folksonomy.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2020

Founded in 2001, VisionSpring’s mission has always been to provide eyewear to the 2.5 Now, the company and its CEO Ella Gudwin are taking that a step further—offering their resources and capabilities to assist in the manufacturing and distribution of PPE for essential workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 effort.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

Secondly, developers are more productive. In 2001, Stewart Butterfield abandoned plans to build a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) after costs became too great; he built photo-sharing service Flickr instead. We have over 60 companies in our portfolio and none of them use any products from the current software leader, Oracle.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Founded in 2001, VisionSpring’s mission has always been to provide eyewear to the 2.5 Now, the company and its CEO Ella Gudwin are taking that a step further—offering their resources and capabilities to assist in the manufacturing and distribution of PPE for essential workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 effort.

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Mucker Lab

DECEMBER 2, 2015

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. For the first time, entrepreneurs could build consumer services AND distribute them at scale with almost no physical middle men and inventory costs.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Startups needed millions of dollars of funding just to get their first product out the door to customers. A hardware startup had to equip a factory to manufacture the product. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. Software companies had to buy specialized computers and license expensive software.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 6, 2013

Others claim that it’s unproven , unscientific and gets your product to market in a haphazard way that is ungrounded in quality. WebVan went bankrupt in 2001 after burning through $1 billion on warehouses, inventory systems and fleet delivery trucks. Lean startup engineering seems to work for consumer products. Absolutely.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 18, 2010

According to TechCrunch , it may very well be Paypal, who has been collaborating with Magento on product development since 2008. Varien was founded in 2001 by CEO Roy Rubin and is based in Los Angeles. Below is a video of Roy Rubin presenting the Magento products: Roy Rubin, State of Magento, deel 1 from Guido Jansen on Vimeo.

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ConversionXL

MAY 8, 2017

Most product descriptions are awful. Product copy and product descriptions seems like such minor parts of a website in the grand scheme of conversion optimization , so many brands brush it off. In fact, some companies do product copy so well that it’s almost a feature of the product itself. Or worse, non-existent.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

We come in after a product has landed and found product market fit and has some escape velocity. So there’s a product side and a business side. . So this has always been our most significant focus area, whether in 2022, 2021, or 2001. . The first one is the pre-product-market fit which we don’t do. .

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

But once the company has honed in on a strong value proposition and found initial product-market fit, what is the best approach to scaling it? Interestingly, the company’s founding vision was not a lean idea, but rather a big idea: to accelerate and manage Internet traffic on a global, highly scalable, highly distributed scale.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

And a company culture and values need to be design and engineered just like the product. . Their first product aims to make meetings more productive. Just as important as the product) we did not pay a lot of attention and we’re not particularly intentional about how we were building the company (and its culture.) .

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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. In the past ten years there have been several dramatic changes in venture capital.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Was being “on-stage” an easy transition for you – are there photos of young Julia starring in her high school production of Cats? Fortune and CNN had a partnership; I first appeared to talk about an article I’d written in 2001 about the bubble bursting. How have these products become part of your toolbox?

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

For a technology startup company to launch an initial product and survive long enough to gauge its success, requires two-orders-of-magnitude less money today than at the start of the previous decade. 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.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 5, 2013

The council has issued 63,000 credit transcripts since 2001. Also, while we are talking Amazon, lets think Kindle/ebook model — digital products served on demand with few physical activities and interactions before, during or after the sale. These days students can get transcripts for ACE’s credit recommendations for $20 a pop.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Meanwhile, Google has been rolling out subtle, smart user-interface streamlining of its remaining suite of products, from Google Docs to the publishing back-end for Blogger. Since Page took Google’s reins in April, the pace of change and innovation at the company has been truly breathtaking.

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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 can extend our clients' reach tremendously, and for low cost, by using the internet and social media to distribute and link to the "assets" we create. Having fun again. Our name Reality2 stands for Reality2.0. Absolutely.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

And content distribution. We forget, we think this is ancient history, it was 2001, I mean it wasn’t that long ago. John Jantsch: Yeah, and you’re right though, the model changes so much in terms of distribution, and assets, and hard costs, that it really allows for that kind of innovation, doesn’t it?

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Smith identified that when men and women specialize their skills, and also importantly “trade” with one another, the end result is a rise in productivity and standard of living for everyone. Launched in 2005, Etsy is a leading marketplaces for the exchange of vintage and handmade items. annual GMV.

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

million, indicating a somewhat normal distribution. Product/Technology 0-15%. Some are surprised to find that investor rankings of product and technology are below those of the management team and the size of the opportunity. Product/Technology. TARGETCOMPANY.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

It recognizes that forces that create chaos and confusion also upend deeply rooted habits and patterns of behavior — the status quo – that often block potential innovations and more productive ways of living. It had a fancier-sounding title: Product Manager. Now, with so much in flux, where do we go from here? Who flourishes?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. Yeah, I mean there's a lot of that because when we think about how we invest in companies, we’re not thinking about just a product that people want. They’re products that are applicable to the people here now.

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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. Instead, I wanted to focus on what I knew best — product and editorial strategy.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

When you can proudly use your product or service and find the value in it on a daily basis, you know you’re on to something. With the recent wave of on-demand offerings from taxi cabs to mobile dry cleaning, consumers have started to rethink the way they book and buy products and services. Thanks to David Wachs, Handwrytten ! #5)

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

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. Sometimes it makes sense to insulate entrepreneurs from pressure to make money while they build their products, Mr. Siegel said. Personal Technology.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

Hand reared, growing into a cheeky, unique little character, full of personality and attitude… what better name for our product than ‘Oska. The name for my independent film production company, Corner Piece Productions, was inspired by a motif of puzzle pieces in our first feature, West of Her.

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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. A positive by-product of growing their business organically is founder happiness.

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VC Cafe

MAY 3, 2012

Following the acquisition, the company will become part of Covidien’s oximetry and monitoring product line. Advertising management and distribution platform company Digital Generation Inc. (DG) (SWX: ORIDN) an Israeli manufacturer of capnography respiratory monitors and modules was bought by Ireland’s Covidienplc.(NYSE:

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aweissman.com

APRIL 17, 2016

I’ve seen this before, as one of my first investments ever in 2000 was leading the first financing in SmarterChild , where that product and company faced many of these same questions. Given that it was 2000-2001, SmarterChild launched on the then dominant (only?) What did they see and do?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru.

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