YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2014

Their assembly chain approach to construction brought in a level of efficiency, cost-savings and quality that was previously unmatched. The base product is quickly deployed, cost-effective and customizable. The Cost Advantage is Obvious. They’re chopping costs and upping revenue. Build-it-Yourself to Do-it-Yourself.

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Software eCommerce Software Developers Software Development 202

The Startup Magazine

MAY 1, 2017

Acura” has no definition but suggests precision engineering, according to Entrepreneur. This is why Minnesota Manufacturing and Mining became 3M in 2002 and why Kentucky Fried Chicken adopted KFC in 1991. Avoid made up words or acronyms with no apparent meaning. Anything too obscure will be a problem for your audience.

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Naming Minnesota Kentucky Italy 60

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 11, 2015

When Elon Musk received $200 million from the proceeds of the PayPal acquisition in 2002, he re-invested everything to build the next big thing: $100 million in SpaceX and $100 million in Tesla. It occurred to him that he should try and find one of the drivers going his way and offer to share petrol costs in exchange for use of an empty seat.

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San Francisco Churn Rate Silicon Valley Engineer 48

Campus Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 18, 2012

Good piece covering NSF’s new “ Science and Engineering Indicators ” and its data on the funding of research universities in the U.S. According to the report, Colorado’s research universities saw the sharpest decline in per-student funding, dropping from $6,617 in 2002 to $3,148 in 2010. global competitiveness.”.

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Mike Michalowicz

MAY 23, 2016

He moved to San Diego in 2002 and taught Engineering at Morse High School for five years, despite never having an Engineering degree. Receipt-Bank – Software and service to make the gathering, storage & processing of bills, receipts and invoices as easy and as cost effective as possible for businesses.

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San Diego Bahamas Software Review Engineer 96

finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Overall, the fund-of-funds is 97% called for 45 funds raised between 1999 and 2002. Overall, the portfolio value (including realizations) was being held at around 5% below cost. MPM BioVentures III (2002): 76% (44%). Engineering jobs. What follows is performance data for several funds of note. Job Search. Accounting jobs.

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Naming Term Sheet Private Equity Venture Capital 49

Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

The search engines have done a wonderful job of really serving that up. Those things cost me $5,000, $10,000 a build five or 10 years ago. If you invested five or 10 years ago in a static site that was coded, you frankly are just in need of a refresh and unfortunately that’s just a sum cost that you need to invest in.

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SBA Technical Review Software Review Small Business 60

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Then, the company spends no more than a few hundred dollars marketing the product through search engines and to the contacts in its sales database and LinkedIn. 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.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 26, 2020

And, as a result, they lost almost 90% of their market value in a little over three years, dropping from around $7 billion in value as of Q2–2002 (only one quarter prior to Netflix going public) to their current value of $0.73 a recommendation engine). The psychological cost of buyer’s remorse is the highest it has ever been, with U.S.

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Technical Review Campaign Video Naming 62

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 7, 2020

I founded Wings Air Helicopters in 2002, which started out as a flight school with just one training helicopter and has since grown into a premier helicopter company. I continued my day job but I had somebody working for me as an instructor. And then, I bought a helicopter and started doing the same thing. 29- For appreciation.

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Entrepreneur PR Affiliate Social Media 116

Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

2002: Sarbanes-Oxley creates more friction for companies that want to go public, but likely much less of a factor than people think, by imposing accounting and compliance costs for small companies that easily exceed $2 million per year. cents or 6.25 In my view, this is a myopic analysis for one simple reason.

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Securities and Exchange Commission Equity IPO Marketing 31

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Past (1985-2002). They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. This is an awesome trend and will further lower the cost of startup development.

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Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 4, 2014

The development takes way longer, and ends up costing way more. 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. Redesigns often become a resource black hole. Seems like a shitty deal, doesn’t it?

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Conversion Technical Review Design Framework 124

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. These three tools allow startups to focus on the parts of an early stage venture that matter the most: the product, product/market fit, customer acquisition, revenue and cost model, channels and partners.

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Oakland Incubator Lean Customer Development 327

BeyondVC

MARCH 23, 2004

There were a number of attendees who were here during the past few years and their businesses raised a fair amount of capital and somehow they managed to survive the nuclear winter during the 2001-2002 period. What allowed them to do it? What are the challenges they face now? Let’s fast forward to now.

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Bankruptcy PR Revenue Advertising 60

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

When Iridium was first conceived inside Motorola in 1987, worldwide cell phone coverage was sparse, calls were unreliable and per minute costs were expensive. Cell phone handsets were the size of a lunch box and cost thousand of dollars. Motorola Dynatac 8000x ~1987. A Business Plan Frozen in Time. But the nail in the coffin was price.

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Business Plan Customer Business Model Customer Development 335

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

High Cost and barrier for entry means that a lot of people dismiss it without really understanding the true benefits of the tool. It still can do more and can present more value than just about any other tool, but at this point the barrier to get to that value is not worth the additional cost for the tool.

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Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review Conversion 48

Venture Chronicles

MAY 16, 2012

Everything that SAP delivers must have a migration strategy attached to it, which means they will take longer to deliver products and the cost to develop will be higher. Dalgaard presented an organizational model of applications around Customers, People, Money, and Suppliers. SAP knows databases.

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Database Technical Review Cloud Acquisition 39

om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

called The Rise of a Insta-Company, which theorized that open source, cheap bandwidth and increasingly falling cost of infrastructure would result in companies being built at a dramatically lower cost than ever before. All those sites used up our meager resources — monetary, design, engineering and intellectual.

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Founder Conversion Distribution Silicon Valley 80

Hearpreneur

APRIL 22, 2020

Kirei was started in 2002 to bring beauty to the idea of sustainability in construction by selecting beautiful, functional sustainable materials for designers to use in commercial interiors. The name consists of 3 most popular keywords that are searched in Google and other search engines as well. Photo Credit: Jayaram Thapaliya.

Naming 133

Naming Nepal Entrepreneur LLC 133

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

We worked out a plan to merge our company with another European competitor, raise money from both sets of investors, cut the cost base and live to fight another day. I had very little cash in the bank yet the stories were still coming out about how we were going to change the world of online engineering and construction.

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Entrepreneur Silicon Valley San Diego Non-Compete 308

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

It was very educational for a lot of us to go through the dot-com crash, because you remember, in 2002, like there were a number of universal truths asserted in 2002; the Internet didn’t matter, consumer Internet business was dead. I can switch to SaaS for less than the cost of the maintenance on the old software.”

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Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

I am the VP of Engineering at a cutting-edge startup that sells software built on the.NET platform. You whine about how hard it is to find good engineers, then go on and on about how you intentionally avoid at least half of the market for skilled people? It’s also missing the point of engineering anything. Elaine Kenny.

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ConversionXL

JULY 11, 2016

The quote first surfaced in 2002. Use free test software to minimize the cost of A/B testing ( A/B Testing with Google Tag Manager ). Use PPC to promote content cost effectively (choose keywords nobody’s bidding on). Think about cost <> efficiency tradeoffs. ” But he never actually said that.

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PPC Analytics Video Non-Compete 48

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

So I still had to outlay $50-80k for hardware costs. It performed incredibly well and allowed us to grow our costs incrementally as our business grew as well as to massively reduce our overall storage costs – it’s a shared infrastructure in they way that electricity or water is. Processing.

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