Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

MySpace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model. When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. Sure, you may need to give the product away for free to get traction, but assume you will have to sell something someday to get profitable and stay alive.

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Agile VC

JUNE 30, 2016

In the 90 days since this deal was announced, car OEMs like GM, Ford, VW, Toyota, and Fiat Chrysler as well as tech giants like Google and Apple and on-demand transportation companies like Uber, Lyft, Didi Chuxing, and Gett all scrambled to form strategic/investment partnerships with each other.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

When I trained for the London Marathon in 2003 I bought a Nike device that I put on my shoe that measured my distance and pace via my Nike watch. Unfortunately it seems that it was back-ordered due to strong demand with rumors of it selling for astronomical prices on eBay. Measuring my daily activity. It was simply awesome.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

My first business, a digital agency called MPSWORKS, came about purely based on demand for digital services and to generally help make a difference for small businesses across the UK by creating strong work that would help them prosper. I started my own marketing and communications agency back in 2003. 7- Make a difference.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range. So rounds tend to be “range bound&# where the top end of the valuation spectrum often being done in boom markets (i.e. There is no such thing as a uniform price.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 11, 2018

3G emerged from the growth of the internet during the 1990s , which created a demand for mobile phones that could support both SMS texting and multimedia MMS transmission of image, sound and video files. The introduction of 3G in between 1998 and 2003 brought 200 Kbps speeds, four times faster than 3G. 3G: Opening Up the App Market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Myspace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model. When their deep pockets went empty, Google stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. Sure, you may need to give the product away for free to get traction, but assume you will have to sell something someday to get profitable and stay alive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

MySpace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model. When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. Sure, you may need to give the product away for free to get traction, but assume you will have to sell something someday to get profitable and stay alive.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 7, 2020

In 2003, during his senior year in college, he founded Cilantro Fund Management with a starting fund of about $1 million raised from friends and family. However, you should note that the Millionaire’s Challenge is demanding and it requires you to possess both the drive and the dedication to become a self-sufficient trader.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2017

Be demanding without being demeaning. Positive leaders are demanding but aren’t demeaning. He said you have to ‘love ’em up,’ and you have to hold them accountable to the process, principles, and plan. He was able to save Ford and help the economy with a lot of love and a lot of accountability. Cameron, J.E.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

incentaHEALTH was formed in 2003 around the idea of rewarding people for healthy behaviors. Portability: Related to privacy, consumers are going to demand that they are the owners of their data. That led me build incentaHEALTH, a company focused on using visual weight loss and behavioral economics to reverse obesity.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 12, 2014

By 2003 nearly all of their competitors had failed, the companies that went public pre-bubble were trading sub-$1 / share, but ServiceMagic was growing like crazy and was very profitable. They understood the different dimensions of the business and were laser focused on drivers of supply and demand in each market they operated.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

When I decided to start my business in 2003 it was not a decision that I took lightly. With my new skills in long form copy, direct response, internet marketing and coaching/consulting demand for my services grew and my business evolved to meet the demands of my clients.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2014

If a Company Voluntary Arrangement is agreed as the way forward and it is accepted by creditors, the Supervisor who manages the CVA will then take over dealing with the creditors and therefore the company can move on from daily cash flow battles and demands from creditors and get back to running the company.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Moneyball,” of course, refers of to the 2003 book by Michael Lewis (and the 2011 film starring Brad Pitt) about the Oakland A’s baseball team—and how general manager Billy Beane began using obscure baseball statistics and a new kind of computer-generated analysis to find under-appreciated talent and build a winning team on a shoestring budget.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I won’t bore you with the rest now, but there are fun stories of launching an online startup in NYC in 1997, learning to code (which indulged both my creative and analytical sides), parties (OK, one party) with Mick Jagger in London in 1995, a summer without plumbing traveling around Tanzania training women entrepreneurs (the opposite of said (..)

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 19, 2018

In 2003 owner Paul Canella began selling biodegradable dog waste bags and he’s never looked back. And bags for cleaning up dog waste are in constant demand for city-dwelling dog owners. Well, when I was walking my dog in the summer of 2003, I laughed too when I first thought about the idea…. Dogs will always poop.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 28, 2011

LoopFuse a marketing automation platform that makes it easy generate demand and engage customers through the buying cycle. GaggleAMP – tool that let’s you get your customers and partners involved in amplifying your social media campaigns. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 14, 2011

Here are a few examples of new uses for old tactics: Use variable data printing on demand printing to create highly personalized direct mail pieces with unique images, stories and calls to action based on your customer database. The technology is there to do this in small batches with hundreds of variations.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 19, 2018

In 2003 owner Paul Canella began selling biodegradable dog waste bags and he’s never looked back. And bags for cleaning up dog waste are in constant demand for city-dwelling dog owners. Well, when I was walking my dog in the summer of 2003, I laughed too when I first thought about the idea…. Dogs will always poop.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Instead of being able to justify a somewhat fixed salaried workday, you find yourself working longer and longer hours as client demands increase. My first reaction is that becoming a freelance developer (or starting your own consulting firm) can also be a lot less conducive to launching a product.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

In 2003, I co-founded Synthesis Energy Systems, Inc., our homes will also be designed to meet, and in almost all cases, exceed local building standards. By using a system of components, quality increases. How and when did your team come together and please fill us in on any relevant startup experience? a NASDAQ-listed clean energy company.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2011

On the surface it’s a stock market like game where individuals and companies offer shares of stock for sale and that stock value is measured based on demand, actions taken on Empire Avenue and the collective participation and engagement in social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube. First off, what is it.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2011

– This one frightens some people, because they fear the repercussions of every customer demanding a refund. What is your guarantee? Of course, if that’s even remotely possible then you’ve got bigger problems than marketing.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 12, 2017

I started anthonyBarnum because I love public relations and the people who do it; because there really weren’t opportunities for me at other firms in Texas back in 2003 when the economy was still struggling; and, because I believed there was a better way to do PR. What does your business do? .

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 9, 2019

She is the founder and CEO of Ruby Receptionists , a company she started back in 2003 and has seen double digit growth every year since it’s inception. Went searching for an off-the-shelf software solution and hodge-podged a phone system together that worked with it and in 2003 launched. Then you talk about the on demand economy.

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Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2013

In class they were talking supply and demand. When MHM passed away in 2003 I was devastated… I knew I could never work for anyone else. While my classmates were pouring over micro-economic charts and data, I was starting my own publishing company with Mark H. McCormack teaching me how to negotiate , manage , sell , and communicate.

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BeyondVC

AUGUST 23, 2006

Back in 2003 when we were deciding whether or not to sell Expertcity (GoToMyPC and GoToMeeting) to Citrix or continue fighting the fight and attempt to take the company public 1 year later, it was quite a gut-wrenching decision. million (for comparison, on-demand poster child salesforce.com posted $396.6 million to June 30th this year.

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www.readwriteweb.com

APRIL 23, 2012

Pinterest can hire, Square can hire, Dropbox can hire - these companies have a clear demand for their products and are becoming market leaders," explains Naval Ravikant, founder of startup advice site Venture Hacks. © 2003-2012 ReadWriteWeb. , a salary in the low 80s isnt going to land you any elite tech talent. startupcto

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Luiz Seabra at CosmeticNews , March 20, 2006: One of the wealthiest men in the world erected his business empire around sustainable cosmetics, addressing mounting consumer demands for environmentally-conscious products through his Natura brand; it eventually became Brazil’s first bath and beauty company to utilize a refill structure.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 26, 2014

We also know that more information is being created every 48 hours than the entire amount we made before 2003. The demand from businesses with smaller budgets and time requirements is growing. But that stereotype is threatening the future of small businesses…. How It All Began. We know content marketing works. What’s next?

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Campus Entrepreneurship

MAY 7, 2013

En route to a professorship of rhetoric and writing at the University of Texas at Austin, Clay Spinuzzi published scholarly monographs with the MIT Press 2003 and Cambridge University Press 2008. From Marc Bousquet at the Chronicle of Higher Education (h/t Paul Rogers ). If he sells just 1,500 copies, he’ll earn $10,000.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

03:52] How has your personal life changed since running such a demanding business? [05:10] Founded in 2003, ActiveCampaign helps small teams power big businesses with the must have platform for intelligent marketing automation. 02:33] Have you been able to keep that self-taught view in the value system and culture of your company? [03:52]

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 12, 2017

So I think being able to aggressively manage what you listen to on your commute and have more and more control over it, there’s another key to increasing consumer demand. We’ve done that since 2003. Maybe you stick that in there. I love telling people that when I speak, they get questions, as you might imagine.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 18, 2017

When I started in the financial services industry in 2003, getting to meetings when I was on the road was pretty straightforward—I took a cab. After years of using this technology, consumers became used to getting what they wanted on demand. Just like executives had for more than seventy-five years.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

Consumer tech is demanding, but seeing the product in others’ hands and getting their feedback and seeing their reactions is so gratifying and makes everything I’ve worked for worth it. As the CEO of a consumer hardware company, I love the constant ups and downs that come with making our product stand out from our competition.

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Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 6, 2014

After a lot of ups and downs, twists and turns, it feels like a massive victory (aka "Mission Accomplished", as George Bush famously declared regarding Iraq in 2003). They demand results. On average, it takes 8-10 years for a start-up to go public. By that time, your team will be exhausted.

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