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24 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Industries That Are Ripe For Disruption

Hearpreneur

Products lack customization, and the pricing models behind the scenes don’t have the granularity you’d expect in a world of big data. This will lead to a lot of opportunities for insurance companies willing to blaze that trail and for SaaS companies and other partners who can help them do it. 16- Coffee.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. To give you a sense, for 2002 the entire US online ad market was $6B and had shrunk year over year (it was $25B+ for 2010). We three partners are working hard. Great to see you had such a good partner to start with.

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It’s Time to Play Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. And we can offer investors metrics to play Moneyball – with the Investment Readiness Level. We think we can do better. Here’s how.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

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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7 Good Entrepreneurial Habits That Turn Bad

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, there once was a social network called Friendster , often credited with starting the social networking boom way back in 2002. Now you have real customers who can quickly turn off hundreds of potential customers if you ignore their feedback. Trust your gut, and ignore naysayers. Not every entrepreneur needs to scale.

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Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder

Startup Lessons Learned

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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Cracking The Code: Death Sentence for SaaS.or for Lawson?

Cracking the Code

Is that how Lawson thinks about its customers (I assume some of them are using some sort of SaaS application)? Of course not - the CEO has a much better way to qualify their customers as you will see below. ".traditional 2002, the stock price went from $17.5 Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio. Newer Post.