Growthink Blog

MARCH 28, 2011

Try this on for size – an analysis of over 300 patents acquired between 2002-2008 found an average price per patent of $383,000 ! They Are “Cleanly” Managed and Run. Companies rich in intellectual property in all its forms – patents, processes, and people – attain purchase offers on factors other than last year’s earnings.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. 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. Knowing your customers—and how they may change—is key. What the big studies have shown. Promotion. Pragmatic.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Let’s circle back to Latinitas’ first interaction with IBM, back to our start in 2002. We thank IBM Customer Architect and Master Inventor Janani Janakiraman, Software Engineer Karen Siles (now a Latinitas board member!), and others they brought to help.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

In the last five years, I’ve managed to find the time to write, publish and promote multiple books, including two award-winning bestsellers , develop a web application, maintain a blog, and present at conferences. In 2002, I met Libba and Gifford Pinchot, cofounders of Bainbridge Graduate Institute , at a retreat. Enter the Craziness.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 10, 2017

Firstly, your existing customers must slowly and seamlessly be transitioned to your new business proposition. Secondly, your target customers must begin to identify you by the new values and positioning of your business. So between 2002 and 2007, Compaq continued to use their logo with little change. HP Merger With Compaq.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Even when you do sign-up initial customers it’s still not clear that your company will be a success and you’re still likely paying yourself under market rates. Maybe they were in their 20s in 2002 when being a startup CEO wasn’t really available to most? the standard 4-6% for a hired-gun CEO).

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

It is only when we revert to selfish gains that we neglect the most important entity of entrepreneurism, which is the customer. Can your customers really trust you and your company? Do you care more for your customer’s satisfaction than making a sale? Companies go awry when the leader stops listening to the customer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

Good entrepreneurs are all about managing change, but too many forget that they have to change themselves as their dream evolves from a startup to a scalable business. For example, there once was a social network called Friendster , often credited with starting the social networking boom way back in 2002.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 29, 2018

In conclusion, whatever your business, there are lending solutions out there that are right for you and a much better option than having to plead with the dreaded bank manager. Mike now directs a company that provides independent businesses with business cash advances – with repayments, crucially, tailored to customers’ incomes.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Yes, there are a few self-taught naturals, like Bubba Watson, and, uh…Sam Snead (1912–2002). They learn how to talk with potential customers and de-risk their plans from the start. They may have the magic first or second order connections you need as a founder to sell your product or service to your most preferred customer targets.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 16, 2017

One of the most memorable campaigns was launched by Sony Ericsson back in 2002 in the early days of cell phones with a digital camera. Giving out free stuff to your potential customers surely has the intention to show them the functionalities of your product, and it allows them to see all of its benefits for themselves.

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Guy Nirpaz

DECEMBER 12, 2011

In a successful Client Lifecycle program, the leaders in departments such of Sales, Marketing, Product Management and Client Services all have a role to play at some point. Do you know how to measure your Customer Engagement? Each Department Leader has a key role to play. This executive owner should be responsible for client retention.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Customers are first asked to fill out an in depth profile to help identify their size, style, and preferences. Then, on the customer’s requested date, the company sends a personally styled offering (a Fix) of five items (previously unseen) to the individual to try on in her own home. Katrina herself is equally impressive.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Your original business plan will probably go out the window when you land your first customer. Customers are choices made by your startup. Customers pay you money so you can keep the lights on. Your business works as intended if you can attract customers that fit into the context of your operation. Not really.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2019

As your idea takes shape, you’ll increasingly zero in on the audience of potential customers whose problem your offering solves; for everyone else, your idea may not generate excitement, but don’t let that discourage you. And having a familiar basis for your offering will help customers recognize why it’s worth buying.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. Managing Creativity. Leadership and Managing >. Why Arizona Bay started taking stock from its customers instead of cash. Quality Manager Job Description. Quality Manager Job Description. Recruitment Manager Job Description. Leadership.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

The founder and CEO of Blinds.com – a leading Internet retailer of custom window treatments on the internet, specializing in blinds, shades, shutters and draperies – confesses that he was a jerk of a boss who used to terrorize his employees and micro-managed every detail of his business. Transformation.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2015

Many customer service locations are still located in the U.S. From 2002 to 2011, she worked for ACS, a Xerox company, and rose from General Manager to the Vice President of Sales and Integration. It is another component in the overall brand management piece,” says Tubbs. despite the sense it might be otherwise.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 27, 2019

B-Ho and Cam have even managed to release a new song every weekfor the last 100 weeks and each one is copyright free with no licensing fees. I’ve built my business from the ground up and there were/are many times where you relate to what Billy Beane went through in the 2002 season. Thanks to Maruxa Murphy, PerkPerky ! #20-RX

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2015

You must have the guts to manage your organization so that it creates the products and services that will allow your company to be successful five to ten years from now. Be insanely customer-centric. A customer is a customer for life. At its core, customer relationships start with recognizing the values of your audience.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

I thought Id share a little bit of that, too: I’ve been interested in different approaches to software development going back to 1987 when – in my first company Feld Technologies – my partner Dave Jilk and I started talking about “semi-custom software development&# (way ahead of its time).

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 30, 2012

Two years later we made it a full merger, and I joined the Tieto management team. I was used to managing 200 Finnish nerds, with whom my straight-ahead approach (my nickname is “Bulldozer”) got great results. Before long I was managing thousands of nerds in Russia, China, Germany, the U.S., and other countries.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Ingenie claims to help customers (often students) save up to 50 percent of what they would otherwise be paying. I’ll leave you with one last example: consider GoPro , t he camera company that got started in 2002. Palo Alto Software, for example, uses their own product, LivePlan , to manage and keep track of key business metrics.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Here’s some thoughts on how to manage the tricky frenemy relationships. Siebel was something you installed: it was expensive, hard to implement, bloated, complex and hard to manage. In a startup market getting potential customers to take any action at all is the hardest thing you face. You know, frenemies. Them vs. Us.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

The University of California managed research and development of the bomb design at Los Alamos while the US Army managed the Los Alamos facilities and the overall administration of the project. In Afghanistan in 2002 U.S. The Rapid Equipping Force operated with speed and urgency to deliver solutions to real customer problems.

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Up and Running

APRIL 4, 2014

Were there even customers for the home delivery of fake mice and rubber bones? But over the course of the Edsel’s three-year run, Ford only managed to unload 118,000 of them. When Ford’s public relations manager, C. Customers loyal to the brand began a vocal campaign to bring back their beloved Coke. Who cares?!

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Established in 2002 and operated for the first few years from a small single bedroom at their mother’s home, Justin and Jason Korinek have managed to increase their turnover every year for the last 17 years… they are clearly doing something right! With a turnover of £3.5 With a turnover of £3.5 Sell Yourself.

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Reputation Technical Review Lead Generation Customer 164

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Take a look: This full-day Master Class focuses on how to build a startup from the ground up to focus on customers, markets, and speed of iteration. Im working on a future post where Ill share the details of how I used customer development to shape both the content and packaging of this event, so look for that soon. It was a disaster.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2014

The otherwise identical homes could be customized with the interior designs, embellishments and personal touch of the owners. So, we’re moving from expensive, custom-made, in-house solutions to cost-efficient, customizable, easy-to-integrate solutions that perform well in a variety of contexts. Sound familiar?

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 5, 2020

The residential real estate market is ripe for disruption because as millennials enter the home buying market (now they are 30% of all homebuyers in America) they are looking for online tools and apps that will empower them with information and tools to help them manage this extremely stressful, overwhelming, and expensive process.

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Technical Review Software Review Entrepreneur China 156

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

In 2002 after exiting his second company he was attracted to the variety of being a VC. ESPN, Forbes, AOL were customers. Richard’s email address is public but it is hard to manage all the inbound cold emails. The idea was right but the timing was early and required a pivot into being a software company. 9:30 – 11:30).

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

a customer before you try and build a business. That’s in stark contrast to the traditional Product Development Model where it’s expected a customer is already there and waiting and it’s simply a matter of [.] Reply Best books for the lean product managers — Justin Gibbs , on April 28, 2009 at 2:44 pm Said: [.]

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

NetGenesis had raised some money and had created three different products – net.Forms (a web form manager), net.Thread (a web threaded discussion board), and net.Analysis (a weblog analysis tool). In 2002 Jerry retired from venture capital and went on his own personal journey for meaning.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

My Experience Back in 2002/2003 I spent hours writing a sales letter and emailing it to 15 local design firms, offering my services as an outsourced development staff (I coded in PHP,NET and Java at the time). Being a partner of a tool you customize was the best. 4 Matt Doar on 09.29.09 at 6:35 pm Writing a book helped.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Ingenie claims to help customers (often students) save up to 50% of what they would otherwise be paying. They’re a camera company that got started in 2002. At Palo Alto Software, we use our own product – LivePlan – to manage and keep track of key business metrics. Very clever. I’ll leave you with one last example.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

Allows customers to select potential inventory through Be the Buyer program. Founded in 2002 and expanded after founders graduated from CMU in 2006. Is a super-simple online management and admin tool for real-world groups. TechCrunch. Has 150 employees and is opening a HQ in SF and a supply-chain office in LA. TechCrunch.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2010

In 1998, Multi National Underwriters was founded by two entrepreneurs and in 2002 was purchased by the Noel Group in partnership with the original owners. The vision of the company was to provide affordable short term health insurance with a relentless focus on customer service. The Peace Corps, national universities, as well as U.S.

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