Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

Most begin by doing the product development, marketing and sales alone, but struggle making the transition to hiring and coaching others, defining repeatable processes and focusing on future strategy. 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

MAY 5, 2015

From 2002 to 2011, she worked for ACS, a Xerox company, and rose from General Manager to the Vice President of Sales and Integration. As an executive, she guided 6,000 front line employees located in 12 global sites. Her success has come as a result of communicating to her employees that they are part of something bigger.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2019

On the road to launch, you’ll pitch your idea to dozens – maybe even hundreds – of people, from friends and family to potential employees. But in 2002, Anytime Fitness succeeded by introducing just a couple of fresh components – 24/7/365 access for members and convenient locations in neighborhood strip malls.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Look, if you work in sales, wanna learn how to sell or just peek at the latest sales news. Check out the sales podcast where host will Barron helps sales professionals learn how to find buyers and win big business in effective and ethical ways. Well, brand naming is for sale on Amazon and elsewhere that books are sold.

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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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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Of all your hires, if you have commissioned sales people, those will give you the most problems if they’re not all given an equal chance to make their quotas and achieve their personal earnings goals. Startups often hand out shares, options, and warrants for employees and for contractors rendering needed services. Not really.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2017

Outcomes from a national study conducted by the Center for an Urban Future that reported a dramatic 52 percent growth in woman-owned business formation from 2002 to 2012.( This implies a lack fundamental skills, including leadership and confidence to grow a business and hire multiple employees. Avg # of Employees. 11,313,900.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 20, 2015

A population of founders, employees, investors, advisors, and others all aligned in trying to build large disruptive businesses is naturally prone to lofty, even over-the-top language. I saw this firsthand with my own experience as an early PayPal employee. We went public in 2002 and eBay bought the company later that year for over $1.5

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Early this year Amie Fineberg, who has been my amazing assistant for over 10 years, mentioned that she and several other employees at Benchmark had fallen in love with a new ecommerce service, and that I might want to check it out. Fundamentally, we share the common concern that many of the new “Ecommerce 2.0”

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. Employee Benefits. SALES & MARKETING. Jumpstart wasnt much at the time, just four employees working from home offices. But as Arizona Bay grew--it now has 40 employees and more than a dozen clients--Graham began to worry that he was missing out. Finance | Tuesdays. Tools & Research.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 21, 2015

A population of founders, employees, investors, advisors, and others all aligned in trying to build large disruptive businesses is naturally prone to lofty, even over-the-top language. I saw this firsthand with my own experience as an early PayPal employee. We went public in 2002 and eBay bought the company later that year for over $1.5

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Up and Running

APRIL 4, 2014

Ford’s advertising agency—Foote, Cone & Belding—solicited its employees to suggest names for the new car, offering the winner a car of their own as the prize. Gayle Warnock, got wind of the decision, he sent a one-line memo to project head Richard Krafve: “We have just lost 200,000 sales.” What Went Wrong?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

Has 85 employees in London and Nottingham. Founded in 2002 and expanded after founders graduated from CMU in 2006. Has 150 employees and is opening a HQ in SF and a supply-chain office in LA. Woot was one of the first one-per-day item sales site with a humorous and not always PC content. TechCrunch. Total raised: $1.3mm.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

In addition, freelance development requires a lot more mental energy than being a salaried employee. 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).

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

We started with three employees building up an e-commerce platform in Nigeria. Now, we have more than 500 employees and we deliver the widest range of products in the country,” said Raphael Afaedor, co-founder of JUMIA, at the time of funding. “We The company now has more than 17 million users. Konga, Jumia and Gloo.ng

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The mom-and-pop business became an instant success and its annual sales continued to skyrocket each year. In 2002, the Glacéau, line of beverages became the top-selling enhanced water brand in America and it raked in $350 million in revenues in 2006. The following year, Coca-Cola bought out Energy Brands for $4.1 Burt’s Bees.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

And for ones that do get sold often most of the employees don’t really make huge upside gains. It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. I remember an employee asking me whether I’d fill out their paperwork to get a home loan when we only had 3 months of cash in the bank.

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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! Include a clear sales funnel that encourages people to get in touch.

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

If I honor your NDA, and I meet a great investor or potential employee or valuable partner for your new venture, I wouldnt be able to tell them about it. I would love to be plagiarized and embroiled in a lawsuit--the curiosity factor alone would boost my sales and name recognition exponentially. Ideas are cheap. Execution is hard.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

And for ones that do get sold often most of the employees don’t really make huge upside gains. It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. I remember an employee asking me whether I’d fill out their paperwork to get a home loan when we only had 3 months of cash in the bank.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

But that's just part of the rejection of doing sales. So I started in 2002 and in 2006 we took financing in. And it's true that, you know, know at that time we had close to 4,000 employees, which is a big difference in. John Jantsch (06:05): Yeah, yeah. Learning how to code myself was the investment.

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Gust

MAY 24, 2012

As a quick review, most startups begin life as corporations with a single class of equity securities, referred to as Common Stock , issued to founders, employees, and outside service providers. Options and warrants, when issued, are also typically exercisable for shares of Common Stock.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

First thing’s first, make sure you scale and center your data if you have certain variables that are much larger than others (we have answers on a scale of one to five, but also employee counts that go into 50,000+). A research-based archetypal representative of your customer based on various attributes, attitudes, and characteristics.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 7, 2017

One of the best definitions I’ve found, which expounds a bit more, comes from Tony Zambito circa 2002 : Tony Zambito: Buyer personas are research-based archetypal (modeled) representations of who buyers are, what they are trying to accomplish, what goals drive their behavior, how they think, how they buy, and why they make buying decisions.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

I was on an airplane 2-3 times / week meeting potential customers, investors, employees, business partners and the press. I stayed up late every night after a day of meetings doing email until 3am so that I didn’t feel out of touch with our product and sales pipelines. By the time of my wedding in July 2002 I was super fit.

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Growing his original pizzeria from a meager $2,000 per week to over $1 million dollars a year in sales in a town of only 8,000 and opening his newest pizzeria at the $1.2 million sales mark in a town of 13,000 with an advertising budget of nearly zero. Train your employees so they can function fully without you there.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Then from a bottoms-up standpoint what you said is exactly right, I think, which is that the new generation of employees grew up on smartphones and tablets and touch and everything, social networking and Twitter and everything else. And increasingly they might not buy their laptops, because their employees will just bring their own devices.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

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. I know it would be time for me to leave, and that I would have failed our company culture if we started erecting walls between our team members.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

2002, the stock price went from $17.5 china tour beijing tour beijing travel china tour tibet tour tibet travel computer monitoring software employee monitoring. sales and marketing. (10). Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan. per share to $8.0

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Hearpreneur

MAY 9, 2018

When I started the business in 2002 we mainly sold portable air cooling and heating products. We sell and license custom phone numbers, so our name sprung naturally from the results we aim to create for our customers: we get your phones to ring and, in doing so, boost your sales. Thanks to Julie Ann Wood, E-seedling LLC ! #10-

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Designmantic Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

She is also the author of Social Media Mastery: A Comprehensive Guide to Strategic Growth and is the founder of “The Authority Matrix”, which is a powerful tool used by Fortune500 executives that utilizes employee advocacy and influence. Website: themarketingnutz.com. Tamara McCleary. Website: tamaramccleary.com.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). This whole thing sounds like the “fresh-outta-school” employee still stuck with the “i-am-31ee7″ mentality. Thank you.NET for making me and my employees successful.

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