Guy Nirpaz

DECEMBER 12, 2011

From a client to client perspective the owner should be a post-sales account manager, often referred to as a Client Advocate, Client Account Manager or Client Success Manager who is measured on retention, and not new sales revenue. Do you know how to measure your Customer Engagement? Increase your sales revenue!

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2011

Once you are able to achieve some real “traction” with your business (paying customers, revenue stream), it may seem the time to relax a bit, but in fact this is the point where many founders start to flounder. The key is to make decisions from data and feedback, once your business has real customers and real products.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2018

The “advertising is dying” drumbeat started in November 2002 when Gallup released this study that proved traditional advertising expenditures were not generating results. Secondly, creating demand requires that you find ways to engage your satisfied customers in telling your story. Impact is the key. Give it up.

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Marketing Entrepreneur Demand Advertising 92

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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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. During her tenure, her department’s annual revenue jumped from $60M to $250M. “I despite the sense it might be otherwise.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2010

Once you are able to achieve some real “traction” with your business (paying customers, revenue stream), it may seem the time to relax a bit, but in fact this is the point where many founders start to flounder. Way back in 2002, John Hamm published some early work on this subject in " Why Entrepreneurs Don't Scale."

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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

MARCH 25, 2015

Be insanely customer-centric. A customer is a customer for life. At its core, customer relationships start with recognizing the values of your audience. Let those closest to the customer make the key performance decisions. billion in annual revenue. Let them feel like they own the business.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Why Arizona Bay started taking stock from its customers instead of cash. But with the help of Grahams company, which specializes in creating tech systems for start-ups, Jumpstart grew to more than $50 million in revenue--enough to make it an attractive acquisition for media conglomerate Hachette Filipacchi. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 25, 2004

Having talked to a number of bankers, we always thought that one needed $6-8mm of quarterly revenue, profitability for at least 1-2 quarters, and good visibility for the rest of the year in order to go public. Revenue for FY03 was $26mm up from $12mm the previous year. Concerns could be the concentration of customers via Microsoft.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already raised early-stage capital and are well into revenue growth. Allows customers to select potential inventory through Be the Buyer program. Founded in 2002 and expanded after founders graduated from CMU in 2006. TechCrunch. students. -Is

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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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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Being enterprise scale means that your representatives have regular dialogue at CXO or at least VP level with Global 2000 accounts are they are bringing in millions of revenue from those accounts every year. In simple terms the customer's risk of doing nothing has to be higher than the risk of buying software from an unknown startup.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

It has made and wasted billions of dollars in oil revenues and outside Lagos the country is corrupt and doesn’t even run a Postal service for its people. We focus every day on delivering a fantastic shopping experience for our customers – fast, secure and stress-free.”. Moreover, investment in the country has been slow to accelerate.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Mastering your pitch to a VC, prospective customers, new hires or partners is part art and part science. 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. Talk about passion and commitment!

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, also known as “The Bean” to loyal customers, is a Los Angeles based, family-run coffee and tea company that’s owned and operated by International Coffee & Tea, LLC. and sells products through a wholesale customer network of nearly 20,200 stores. Wrigley Company.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 1, 2015

Social media (2002). Businesses everywhere have hopped onto this particular bandwagon, believing that their customers are active in social media, so what better way to reach them. There are dozens of examples of new ideas, inventions, and machines that launched a small business that grew and grew into business powerhouses.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 5, 2020

Products lack customization, and the pricing models behind the scenes don’t have the granularity you’d expect in a world of big data. Companies now have apps where you can view the car, put down a deposit, send your photo id and call it – like an Uber once you clear customs. parents and students) remain engaged.

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Technical Review Software Review Entrepreneur China 156

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Nudge is a fast pace, but still insightful with real world examples that you can apply her recent issue, talked about the, the idea of getting your customers, your prospects, in the habit of buying from you, or listening to you or following you. You have to balance that because without restaurants you kinda ha not gonna have customers.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Groupon was so successful in drawing local customers in such markets as Chicago, a national promotion by the Gap last summer drew $11 million in revenue on one day and temporarily shut down Groupon’s server, the New York Times reported. If enough people sign up for it, the offer is good.

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Cofounder Chicago Founder IPO 61

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 4, 2014

If you just go ahead and redesign your site, chances are that it will fail – conversions / revenue per visitor actually go down. 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. Customers said they loved the change.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Customer personas are often talked about in marketing and product design, but they’re almost never done well. A research-based archetypal representative of your customer based on various attributes, attitudes, and characteristics. can all benefit from a better idea of the customer. This post contains video, click to play].

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

When it was spun out as a a separate company, Iridium’s 1990 business plan had assumptions about potential customers, their problems and the product needed to solve that problem. They made other assumptions about the type of sales channel, partnerships and revenue model they would need. A Business Plan Frozen in Time. Their mistakes?

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Business Plan Customer Business Model Forecast 335

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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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Past (1985-2002). billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king.

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Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

ConversionXL

MARCH 7, 2017

A research-based archetypal representative of your customer based on various attributes, attitudes, and characteristics. They’re also known as buyer personas, customer personas, customer profiles, or just personas depending who is selling the idea to you. can all benefit from a better idea of the customer.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 10, 2018

My father and I started the business back in 2002 with the following dream: “our mission is to support USA families and jobs by producing high-quality clothing, in the USA, at an affordable price. Everyday I am proud of the work our team does and of the success our customers have had making the change. Photo Credit: BJ Nickol.

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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. In other words, alot of these companies were based on cool technology and not on making customers happy.

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www.humbledmba.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy. Ran if for two years before we shut it down with almost no revenue achieved. Oh, and what was the company? It was yet another Web 2.0 Shocking, I know. It was called BrightMail.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

We spend money on things that help in improving the experience of our customers, our readers. In the early days, my belief was that blogs (or as I called them micro-pubs back in 2002) would grow really fast and it would allow me to aggregate large subsets of audiences around specific niches. but it was a miserable experience.

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Designmantic Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

It is apparent that the United States has the highest performing entrepreneurship, but what is truly amazing is how women contribute the biggest growth in revenue, employment and financial efficiency. E-commerce and customer service run deep in Marsha Collier’s blood, heart and soul. Background Image: Unsplash/Rawpixel.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

The Deutsche Bank report has a very interesting chart on the topic presenting the Free Cash Flow margins vs. the revenue growth four years post IPO for select software leaders: As you can see, with 20% Free Cash Flow margin and a 50% growth rate, Salesforce is well positioned in the pack! 2002, the stock price went from $17.5

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

When we started our company in 2002 we decided that Sonjara would make a great name for our company or product; meaningful and unusual, as well as easy to pronounce and spell. We find that customers love to find out that there is a meaning behind it and that it is a cute play on words! Thanks to Siobhan Green, Sonjara, Inc !

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

MANAGE MY SUBSCRIPTIONS By clicking the Subscribe button, you agree to the Privacy Policy Fintech products ease more Americans into the stock market The percentage of Americans who own stocks is falling, according to the Wall Street Journal : only 55 percent own stocks today, compared to 67 percent in 2002. in addition to home ownership.

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ConversionXL

JULY 11, 2016

The quote first surfaced in 2002. Either way, user feedback is not about asking your customers how to solve problems. Three techniques to write better copy: Surveys – learn customers’ challenges and questions via surveys. Spying – spy on customers by putting yourself in their shoes. performance.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

I had been selling large content management systems and storing documents for industrial-scale customers. Many of the biggest customers wanted to be able to physically walk through our data center – how could I give up something so strategic? I was dead set against it. Especially to a company that sells books! Think about it.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

There’s been ample coverage in the popular press of course highlighting everything from the company’s revenue growth, lack of profitability, and the well-publicized fact that founder/CEO Jack Dorsey is also CEO of Twitter so would theoretically be running two public companies simultaneously. Revenue Composition. Starbucks Deal.

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