BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

No matter what economic cycle we go through, Fortune 500 companies need to invest in software.”. Along these lines, we are starting to hear serverless more and more from the Fortune 500 and see this trend reflected in the sales pipeline at iopipe which has gone from mostly startups to larger companies. Ed Sim, Boldstart Ventures.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2023

Tiffani emphasizes the need for a balanced approach to company strategy that involves all stakeholders, including IT, Marketing, Sales, Operations, and HR. Every year inbound brings together leaders across business, sales, marketing, customer success, operations, and more. That's right.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In 2001 companies IPO’d very quickly if they were working, by 2011 IPOs had slowed down to the point that in 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures astutely called billion-dollar outcomes “unicorns.” If we wanted to we could have sold > 2x the fund easily in the secondary markets with significant upside remaining.

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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. Consumer approach to software for business users. My blog was wiped out. Page 2: What’s unique about Koral. Folksonomy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. You don’t need to buy hardware – there’s Amazon AWS.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

Huge structural under-employment in much of the country and full employment in some niche tech markets where it’s impossible to hire developers, designers or sales professionals. An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Bplans and Palo Alto Software are strong supporters of entrepreneurs and small business owners. A durable, trendsetting presence in the industry since 2001, the Atlanta-based firm sends over a billion emails per day and is the go-to choice for over 14 million organizations and individuals around the world. Live by your sales.”.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

It could be studying entrepreneurship in school or it could have been working with a government contractor or maybe someone had a sales job. 1 – Medical Device Sales. As a sales representative I noticed that the promotional efforts for Plastic Surgeons were held by a few large firms that overcharged. Sales Account Manager.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

But what made the overwhelming impression for me was finding an entrepreneurial software cluster on par with the Internet software portion of Silicon Valley. China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall.

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Mucker Lab

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Still, that tilt towards consumer startups was limited to software and services. Before the iPod debuted in 2001, MP3 players became a billion dollar business led by companies such as Creative Technology. The company made all the software and core hardware you needed to enjoy an iPod. Take the example of MP3 players.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

At the beginning of Coremetrics in 1999, the market risk was whether or not companies would embrace the outsourced model (what we called ASP, or Application Service Providers, back then, and are now called SaaS, or Software as a Service, or “cloud” providers). and negative?—?voice

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Are Twitter and Facebook Killing Blogs? I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. at 5:05 pm [.]

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 26, 2014

Or why, in an entirely different industry, did German software giant SAP blow up the management framework for its 20,000-person development department and replace it with small teams? For example, just consider that team-oriented selling and sales commissions outperform individually focused sales teams by 30 percent.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 23, 2015

I was pretty good also, but limited to BASIC and Pascal, which were the two languages I used to write the commercial software I was working on for Petcom. Petcom, the company I worked for, wrote PC-based oil and gas software. He was Course 6 and easily one of the best coders around, even though we didn’t call them coders there.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

But what made the overwhelming impression for me was finding an entrepreneurial software cluster on par with the Internet software portion of Silicon Valley. China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

No manager in their right mind would fire the technical lead of a big software project. Show Up Early, Leave Late I’ve talked about how crunch time should be the exception in software projects. Back in 2001 I worked with a consultant who was a developer when times were really good, and a trainer when times were really bad.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

billion for a company with less than $50 million in sales. My experience of 2001-2004 is very remote from what you are describing. 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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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. My company had raised venture capital in April 2001 but we were told that there may never be any more coming. But in these years I learned how to sell software – necessity is the mother of all invention.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

He focuses on investments in fintech, the internet, and software. The startup didn’t work out, but I found ways to be around it, whether it was on the sales side in Goldman for a few years. The beauty of software, in general, is that you have this concept of MVP. I never had to focus on building a sales team.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 19, 2016

I began my career at McKinsey and when the Internet bubble burst in 2001, I made a shift towards online software (ASP at the time). SaaS startups need to have a VC that understands the SaaS model, including market development strategies, upsell dynamics, sales incentive plan, etc. What makes a good VC for a SaaS startup?

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37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Over 1 million people use 37signals simple web-based software to collaborate on projects, track contacts, and organize their business with an intranet. I was initially unfamiliar with project management software, and the name helped me understand why exactly I should give basecamp a shot. Doesn’t seem to have hurt sales though!

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 26, 2015

Mobile technology is ubiquitous, software is eating the world, sensors are proliferating – and with much of the world yet to come online, the bulk of tech growth is ahead of us. As someone who invested through the 2001 and 2008 crashes I can assure you that down rounds and fire sales are not fun for anyone involved.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 26, 2015

Mobile technology is ubiquitous, software is eating the world, sensors are proliferating – and with much of the world yet to come online, the bulk of tech growth is ahead of us. As someone who invested through the 2001 and 2008 crashes I can assure you that down rounds and fire sales are not fun for anyone involved.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 26, 2015

Mobile technology is ubiquitous, software is eating the world, sensors are proliferating – and with much of the world yet to come online, the bulk of tech growth is ahead of us. As someone who invested through the 2001 and 2008 crashes I can assure you that down rounds and fire sales are not fun for anyone involved.

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Up and Running

JULY 21, 2016

You could also invest in gym attendance software to automate much of your tracking. In fact, according to a 2001 study by the Fitness Industry Association, the more often people attend initially, the lower the reduction in attendance. Set the right hours.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 25, 2003

If you take a closer look, “equipment and software” spending was at a 15.4% We have a number of companies in the Enterprise IT space selling security, storage, network management, wireless, and other related software. In general, sales pipelines are building momentum giving better visibility for the next two quarters.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Years later, he bounced back from that situation has built multiple successful companies including AppSumo – a great place to get deals on software. So they solved it by each department manager, the sales manager, and the owner running their own schedule and telling the junior employees what to do. Thanks to Bruce Harpham. #3-

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Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

The first article that we wanted to talk about is one written by the founder of Palo Alto Software, Tim Berry. Your accounting software, you’re entering those numbers. Cody, the VP of Sales wants this lead form on the front page. That’s some 2001 stuff right there. Jonathan: Yeah, that’s right.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 19, 2017

We can talk about that, but Sony came after GoPro once it started seeing this five years of 90% annual sales growth between 2010 and 2015. Then also of course the desktop software, the smartphone app, the social media site, all that stuff and that’s how they held off the competition from Sony and other players.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Software development wasn’t giving me the satisfaction I craved from working, and I had recently been part of a startup that was now a smoking crater after the Dot Com crash. At the time (2001), digital cameras were very much maligned by “real photographers&# , and certainly by the general public. Photo by mpclemens.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 14, 2014

Not too long ago, German software giant SAP blew up the management framework for its 20,000-person development department and replaced it with “mini-teams” of roughly 10 people. I definitely know that those jerks from Sales have their own selfish agenda.

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David Teten

AUGUST 1, 2020

The movement was born at the 2001 World Racism Conference at Durban as an attempt to pressure Israel, despite the ongoing support of Israel’s government and citizens for a two-state solution. . 40% of Intel’s sales are from chips developed in Israel. Boycotts can be effective when buyers have an alternative.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

Our direct sales group markets and sells our solutions primarily using the telephone and web-based demonstrations. From April 2001 through June 30, 2006, we achieved 21 consecutive quarters of revenue growth. According to the S-1 filing: Salary.com is a leading provider of on-demand compensation management solutions. million, $0.9

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

So the question is, does emotion play a role in making more sales online? Before we look how emotion affects sales, we have to ask if emotion plays a role further up the marketing funnel – specifically for driving awareness and getting more reach. Emotional Design Influences Sales. As it turns out, yes. image source.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Klaviyo is a platform that helps growth-focused eCommerce brands drive more sales with super-targeted, highly relevant email, Facebook and Instagram marketing. We forget, we think this is ancient history, it was 2001, I mean it wasn’t that long ago. Transcript. This is John Jantsch. But they never really dropped the idea.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 18, 2009

This was soon after the bursting of the dot com bubble – in early 2001. That was our first year of sales. It was the worst year in history to be selling Enterprise Software and worse yet we were selling SaaS software, which was still experimental in buyers’ minds. But we did $2.1

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

After I left academia (too slow moving) and the consultancy company I worked for (lack of vision), four friends and I applied that puzzle-solving passion to creating software for solving supply chain puzzles. In 2001, I came home to find my apartment on fire. My long-term objective is to bring sales for jewellery back to Australia.

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