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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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

In 2002 I became exposed to the idea of “agile software development&# and subsequently was a first round investor in Rally Software which is now the market leader in Agile application lifecycle management software. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

In addition to market concerns, I had the unique experience of working with Dan Nordstrom and the team at Nordstrom.com in August of 1999. For starters, the business metrics are quite compelling. Also, many of these companies were built with heavy doses of advertising spend, a clear red-flag in our book.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 14, 2012

The more market-savvy professionals already know some of these standard shortened phrases, and business glossaries abound. EBITDA, or Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization, is a metric of measurement of cash earnings that is generally non-GAAP. And the language of business can be hard to understand.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 8, 2014

There is no stand that I have seen on the market to solve my problem – only small stands for a time long past when people bought fewer but more expensive items. They’re a camera company that got started in 2002. He calls it ‘ the secret of the market ’. A jewelry stand. Today, I’d almost describe fashion as ‘disposable’.

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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. We attempted to use Waterfall and market ourselves as B2C. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. What will be covered in the full-day program?

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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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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. You can read the full story here ) #8 Engine Developing a scalable sales and marketing engine is a key element of success for SaaS companies.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Though technically good, you still have to ask you’re speaking to some sort of universal truth about the market. However, CEO’s & Marketing Directors are infamous for adding “cool sounding” gobbledygook that doesn’t make a lick of sense. Have you eliminated confusing, unbelievable, & boring Copy?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Thats why some entrepreneurs are trying another approach to product launches: marketing a product online before spending much on research and development or inventory. 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.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

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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Hearpreneur

JULY 20, 2018

I was at a crossroads in my career and debating about starting my own sales and marketing consulting business. I’ve come up with my business name: Ebooks4fashion, because I wanted to create a platform of fashion marketing that helps fashion entrepreneurs, most women to start or to grow their business, through ebooks and online courses.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 4, 2014

It’s sad, but most sites are still built the stupid way – based on a committee meeting (no conversion analysts involved – just clueless marketing execs chatting) or the HiPPO (highest paid person’s opinion ). Listening to people is a good idea, but you have to pay attention to the metrics. This happens to big sites too.

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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. Where marketers tend to go wrong with user personas. You use them to make better marketing, product, and business decisions and to keep your customer top-of-mind when doing so. Table of contents.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Though technically good, you still have to ask you’re speaking to some sort of universal truth about the market. However, CEO’s & Marketing Directors are infamous for adding “cool sounding” gobbledygook that doesn’t make a lick of sense. Have You Eliminated Confusing, Unbelievable, & Boring Copy?

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ConversionXL

MARCH 7, 2017

User personas are often talked about in marketing and product design, but they’re almost never done well. You use them to make better marketing, product, and business decisions and to keep your customer top-of-mind when doing so. Where Marketers Tend to Go Wrong With User Personas. Artistic and Aspirational Alex…?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

a few days before the wheels came off of the market). We were immediately thrust into a globally competitive market for B2B collaboration tools. But the stock market continued to tank and one of our investors who had committed $12 million pulled out. By the time of my wedding in July 2002 I was super fit.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And then five years later computers became — they dropped half in price and then the big insurance companies could buy them, and that’s when Thomas Watson, who ran IBM at the time, was quoted as saying, “There’s only a market need in the world for five computers.”. So GoodData is at the intersection of kind of marketing and business.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Adobe Analytics is part of Adobe’s Marketing Suite, and it’s a powerful platform. ” Other Adobe products offer capabilities for marketing automation and email, media optimization, audience insights creating and delivering experiences across digital and television,and social. .”

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Well.thats probably why Salesforce market cap is 4.9x Did he really "accidentally" made several hundred million dollars by investing in a company (NetSuite) that raised $120m and turned it into a $1B market cap… What an unsuccessful outcome! 2002, the stock price went from $17.5 sales and marketing. (10).

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Eric Friedman

APRIL 2, 2008

In most cases the metric of success varies greatly from widget to widget. This also helps my definition come into being; Below are just some of the metrics of success for a widget; 1. Many marketers want to have a widget strategy. According to my own timeline, I would say 2002. Time spent. Number of times it is emailed.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

Bix, 2002). The difference between point size and actual letter size (Image © Bix, 2002). It is often a better indicator of the apparent size of a typeface than point size ( Poulton, 1972 ; Bix, 2002 ). X-height refers to the height of the lower case “x” in a typeface. Journal of Design Communication , No.

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ConversionXL

JULY 11, 2016

The quote first surfaced in 2002. Amy Harrisson – The Science of Screenwriting for Online Marketers and Copywriters. Use marketing to amplify your product. Stacey MacNaught – Nobody Pays the Bills in “Social Shares” – Content Marketing That Delivers Tangible Value. That’s your job.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

While.NET can no doubt service the enterprise market, so can everybody else. Its called flamebait marketing, and this is *exactly* how it’s done. Big ideas and creative stuff either aren’t coming out of the.NET world, or.NET based projects/startups suck at marketing. March 25, 2011 at 2:51 pm. Help your business out.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

Today, more than 90 million BlaBlaCar community members travel by carpool of long-distance buses across 22 markets. But then came 9/11 and the severe downturn in the Valley in 2002. It isn’t common when acquiring a company to use your brand and give them autonomy on the way it’s marketed and how the team is built.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Unfortunately the fact that the company raised capital in private markets at a healthy valuation ($6B) and the uncertainty about having a CEO who’s attention is divided between two public companies obscures this story. I think Square is well positioned to continue capturing increasing market share among offline merchant payments.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 15, 2008

So without further dues, here is the list: 1) Demographics are destiny creating opportunity (Steve) Every 11 seconds a baby boomer turns 60 and they already represent a market of 75 million people today. Steve believes these baby boomers will become a large market of internet savvy people up for grab. sales and marketing. (10).

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