A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 11, 2017

I started Smart Bear in a recession (2002) and it went great. I started WP Engine in a boom (2010) and it went great. The answer is always yes. But it’s the wrong question. I’ve been explaining for eight years why recessions are a great time to start a company. When the economy rushes back, you ride the wave.

Bootstrapping 156

Bootstrapping Engineer Sales Cost 156

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Decades later, in 2002, Dutch marketing professor Ale Smidts coined the term “neuromarketing.” Back in 2010, Ariely and Berns cautioned that the profit motive may incentivize companies to misuse neuromarketing—encouraging them to try to cross from persuasion to manipulation. Are we treating people like people with hopes and desires?

Software Review 105

Software Review Advertising Stealth Campaign 105

The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Founder Kevin Systrom launched Instagram with 25,000 beta users on October 6, 2010; two years later, the app continues to see massive growth, recently reporting 150 million active users. Systrom, now a multi-millionaire after selling his company to Facebook for one billion dollars, turns 30 next month.

Cost 168

Cost San Francisco New York City Ruby 168

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Zhitao runs Hangzhou Liaison Interactive, which is a Chinese technology-based company founded in July 2002. Then Collision co-founded another company known as Stripe in 2010. He invested in a new division in his company in 2009 and has expanded significantly since then. He owns a substantial amount of shares in the company.

Cofounder 142

Cofounder Venture Capital India Valuation 142

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Between 2002 and 2012, enterprises with over 1000 employees lost over a 1 million employees. In 2010, he was named one of Business Insider’s Silicon Valley 100 and in 2011, as one of BusinessWeek’s 30 under 30 Best Tech Entrepreneurs. . During the same time, the US labor force lost over a million private wage and salary workers.

Silicon Valley 217

Silicon Valley Non-Compete API Vertical 217

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The first iPhone came out in 2007 but didn’t make its way mainstream until 2010, when apps were released for purchase on iTunes. Digital music has also changed over time, thanks to streaming services like Spotify or Pandora, which took hold since their introduction in 2006 and 2002.

Startup 127

Startup Social Media Global Incubator 127

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

In 2002 I became exposed to the idea of “agile software development&# and subsequently was a first round investor in Rally Software which is now the market leader in Agile application lifecycle management software. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

Lean 68

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC 68

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

In 2002, I met Libba and Gifford Pinchot, cofounders of Bainbridge Graduate Institute , at a retreat. However, a 2010 study found that “reduced self-control after a depleting task or during demanding periods may reflect people’s beliefs about the availability of willpower rather than true resource depletion”.

Technical Review 195

Technical Review Technical Cofounder Software Review Cofounder 195

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Trevor Blake , author of “ Three Simple Steps: A Map to Success in Business and Life “, was founder and CEO of QOL Medial LLC, a specialty pharmaceutical company he started in 2002 with a few thousand dollars and sold in 2010 for over 100 million.

LLC 195

LLC Small Business Developer Founder 195

David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

By 2002 the NASDAQ had fallen by nearly 80%. The market sucked until around 2010 when everyone and their sister decided they wanted to create an accelerator too. We raised a lifetime grand total of $100,000 for that business in the form of advance payment from early customers. In 2000, the Internet bubble burst. You must be nuts.

Founder 174

Founder Valuation Startup IP 174

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Trevor Blake , author of “ Three Simple Steps: A Map to Success in Business and Life “, was founder and CEO of QOL Medial LLC, a specialty pharmaceutical company he started in 2002 with a few thousand dollars and sold in 2010 for over 100 million.

Entrepreneur 254

Entrepreneur LLC Customer Hiring 254

dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

May 7, 2010. May 8, 2010 12:54 AM. May 8, 2010 1:00 AM. May 8, 2010 7:55 AM. May 8, 2010 9:55 AM. May 8, 2010 12:06 PM. Anil Dash. A Blog About Making Culture. About Anil Dash. Most Popular. More Info » One More Time: No NDAs. How should we creatively deny them ? Nishal : SilverCrux.com. kevinshay. |

NDA 52

NDA Technical Review Non-Compete San Francisco 52

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 14, 2014

The two week trips turned into three week trips and we ultimately bought a house in Homer in 2002. We spent between four and six weeks a year there in the summer until 2010, but haven’t been there in the past three years. After moving to Boulder, we continued to spend a few weeks in Alaska each summer.

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Alaska Colorado Boston Cofounder 110

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Facebook Fans Recent & Upcoming Events 2010 I am experimenting with using Plancast to track my 2010 event schedule. It was a disaster.

Lean 60

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Software Review 60

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

Since 2002, the law form of Fenwick & West has conducted a venture capital survey, a response to "the burst of the 'dot-come bubble' and a desire to provide the entrepreneurial community with objective information about the status of the venture environment."

Preferred Stock 115

Preferred Stock Silicon Valley Seed Stage Venture Capital 115

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Today Rally is a 150 person company that plans to add another 75 people in 2010 on the heels of Rally’s $16 million financing led by Greylock. And – since their birth in 2002, Rally has had 17 babies (well – people that work for Rally have had the babies, but you probably figured that out.)

Software 102

Software Agile Leadership Finance 102

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 30, 2012

By 2002, I was down to 54. When I retired from the company in 2010, my leadership score was back above 90. Tieto gave managers a leadership score (formal name: Leadership Index/VCC Value Creation Capital) every year, based on surveys of the people who worked for and with them. It was a true leadership nightmare.

Leadership 168

Leadership China Russia Wiki 168

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. But there were others, too: In 2010, Okta had only ten customers on board. This post surveys what people have done in the past—and what marketing leaders are doing now—to make it through tough times and thrive in the post-crisis era. What the big studies have shown. recession in 2009.”.

Marketing 121

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Home Books for Startups Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Resources Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Categories Air Force (9) Ardent (9) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (29) California Coastal Commission (3) Conservation (2) Convergent Technologies (1) Customer Development (98) Customer Development Manifesto (..)

Product Development 143

Product Development Developer Silicon Valley Product 143

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

The iPad wasn’t the first tablet PC and yet Apple may sell more than 10 million of them in 2010. Apple may sell 48 million iPhones in 2010. Apple’s Think Different campaign (which ran from 1997 to 2002) focused on the brand and not on specific products. Today, nearly everything that Apple touches turns to gold.

Marketing 126

Marketing Social Media Campaign Advertising 126

Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 21, 2013

cents in 2005, down 2 cents from 2002. Census Bureau, Statistical Abstract and Net Worth Report, 2002. Both African-Americans and Latinos are three times more likely to be poor than whites. ~ Source: US Census, 2010. ~~~~. Census Bureau; United for a Fair Economy. Wilson, D.J. I’ve come to realize that MLK, Jr.

Memphis 60

Memphis Washington DC Atlanta 60

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Cecelia did this in 2002 which makes me think of the chaos that was in my head as I continued to unwind the mess that was my world from the collapse of the Internet bubble. It lists for $950 so with the 30% November 2010 discount it’s only $665.

Programming 82

Programming Email Internet Media 82

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

I’ve been to a World Cup (South Korea 2002), gold medal Olympic soccer matches (men & women Beijing 2008), English Premier League, MLS, heck even AYSO. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. But as I said, we had to put NextView’s ethos in our own words. Read More ».

South Korea 124

South Korea Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate 124

Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/29/2002: 82.5. 3/31/2010: 18.8. So, the average company on the S&P 500 IT index with $10M in annual earnings would be worth $210M in March of 1995, $820M in March of 2002, $310M in March of 2004 and $155M in March of last year. One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0. 3/29/1996: 22.3. 3/31/1997: 23.3. 3/31/1998: 30.8.

Down Round 78

Down Round Marketing Preferred Stock Post-Money Valuation 78

Campus Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 18, 2012

From Kevin Kiley of Inside Higher Ed : In inflation-adjusted dollars, total state support for the top 101 public universities declined by 10 percent between 2002 and 2010, with nearly 75 percent receiving cuts. . — sound like its time for the Lean University.

Lean 34

Lean Colorado Texas Revenue 34

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

In Afghanistan in 2002 U.S. In 2010 Colonel Peter Newell took over the REF and turned its focus into what we would call a Lean Startup. After being ignored for decades, Boyd’s OODA Loop drove the U.S. war fighting strategy in both Gulf Wars. The OODA Loop was the Lean Startup philosophy before lean.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Afghanistan Iraq Kuwait 120

finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Overall, the fund-of-funds is 97% called for 45 funds raised between 1999 and 2002. MPM BioVentures III (2002): 76% (44%). Dan Primack joined Fortune.com in September 2010 to cover deals and dealmakers, from Wall Street to Sand Hill Road. JK&B Capital IV (2001): 85% (15%). Lightspeed Venture Partners VI (2000): 112% (80%).

Naming 49

Naming Term Sheet Private Equity Equity 49

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

We do not develop a product until we get a paying customer," says Orit Pennington , who co-founded the six-employee company with her husband in 2002. We do not develop a product until we get a paying customer," says Orit Pennington , who co-founded the six-employee company with her husband in 2002. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

San Francisco 137

San Francisco Product Lean Continuous Deployment 137

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Past (1985-2002). Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. A bit laughable in 2010, just 12 years later. The Present Era.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/29/2002: 82.5 3/31/2010: 18.8 So, the average company on the S&P 500 IT index with $10M in annual earnings would be worth $210M in March of 1995, $820M in March of 2002, $310M in March of 2004 and $155M in March of last year. One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0 3/29/1996: 22.3 3/31/1997: 23.3 3/31/1998: 30.8

Marketing 46

Marketing Preferred Stock Post-Money Valuation Down Round 46

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

He was named among the World’s Top 100 Young Innovators by MIT Technology Review and received the TR100 award in 2002. Alex Vukajlovic, is CEO of Zurich based asset management company Cape Capital which he set up in 2002, and Chairman of DealMarket which he founded in 2010. Moderator: Robert Savage, CEO, Track.com.

Technical Review 128

Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

See the March 2010 edition after the jump. Israel’s ranking in the’s Global Competitiveness Report 2010-2011 increased to 24th place from 27th the year before. Leading financial magazine Global Finance named Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer among the top ten World’s Best Central Bankers for the year 2010. in August 2010.

United Kingdom 96

United Kingdom Austria Global 96

Spencer Fry

APRIL 17, 2015

While Lynda began offering online classes in 2002, my first taste of online education came from seeing Skillshare grow from it’s founding in 2010 from within the Carbonmade office (shoutout to the Skillshare founder, Mike Karnjanaprakorn).

New York City 28

New York City Video Internet Cofounder 28

The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

From starting the company on a AUD $10k credit card in 2002 to raising $60m from Atlas Partners in 2010, Sydney-based enterprise software firm counts Twitter and NASA among their clients.

Australia 146

Australia San Francisco IPO Cofounder 146

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 16, 2010

and I have been a.Net consultant since then at Readify. Note: I don’t want to sound arrogant in the next paragraph (bloody Frenchman) but it is important to explain the breadth of my experience with.Net for you to understand why my productivity increase is such a big deal to me. Its really easy.

Ruby 32

Ruby Developer Product Caching 32

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 4, 2014

User experience guru Jared Spool was talking about the dangers of radical redesigns already back in 2003, Louis Rosenfeld was ranting against it in 2002, and so on. When Digg went through a radical redesign in 2010, it suffered a whopping and mind-blowing 26% loss of site traffic. This happens to big sites too. Remember Digg.com?

Conversion 124

Conversion Technical Review Design Framework 124

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 16, 2010

and I have been a.Net consultant since then at Readify. Note: I don’t want to sound arrogant in the next paragraph (bloody Frenchman) but it is important to explain the breadth of my experience with.Net for you to understand why my productivity increase is such a big deal to me. Its really easy.

Ruby 28

Ruby Developer Product Caching 28