Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

In theory when you went public, everyone’s shares were now tradable on the stock exchange, but usually the underwriters required a six month “lockup” when company insiders (employees and investors) couldn’t sell. billion for a company with less than $50 million in sales.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

He started it in 2009 with 10 employees and sold it to Susino Umbrella in 2014. This sale turned him into a billionaire. Holmes founded a company known as Theranos in 2003 when she was just 19 years old. Instead, he invested his time, money, and effort in a gaming company known as Youzu. Today, he is worth $1.5 Elizabeth Holmes.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

This discussion expands on my Quora answer to a specific question: “ Why were the stock options of MySpace employees worthless even though the company was sold to News Corporation for hundreds of millions? ” The complete story includes a startup-within-a-startup, investments and exits by two VC firms, and some genuine corporate drama.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 1, 2017

I found myself pushed into entrepreneurship after being laid off from a Marketing Director position with a San Diego based high tech company in 2003. She did over 3 million dollars of online sales in the last 16 months. This is invaluable when dealing with acquisitions, hiring new employees, even purchasing something for your closet.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 8, 2018

Four years later, I was National Sales Manager of an insurance company managing around 70 staff and after that, my career went from strength to strength. I was to be in charge of the South West of England and Wales sales team named Area 66. In my simplistic mind – in a sales job, if you hit your target, you get paid extra money.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

According to MarketWatch, GTA has generated over $6 Billion in total sales since its release in 2013, which makes it the top grossing entertainment title in history. Second Life has been around since 2003, has over 30m registered users of which about 500k are active monthly. As a comparison, Avengers and Avatar have grossed about $2.75

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Our business is located in House District 44 (Mike May), and Senate District 30 (Ted Harvey) and most of our ~15 employees live in these same or surrounding Districts in the South Denver area. That is because we do not sell, or use, anything other than “canned” software, for which we collect and remit appropriate sales taxes.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 10, 2022

Born in 2003, Tesla wanted to prove to the world that it was possible to drive a fully electric car while being more powerful, faster, and more enjoyable than conventional cars. The innovation that has put its competitors to shame is the sale of its cars through e-commerce. Starbucks puts its employees first in a number of ways.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 25, 2012

It had ancient hard drives, an installation of Windows Server 2003 that hadn’t been refreshed for 5 or 6 years, and two SQL Server databases that had not been re-indexed (or had any visible maintenance) for 3 years. And I was running scared… Step 1: Like a Chicken With No Head. Examples include: Many 60-day trials had never ended.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2019

By creating a report that filters data on each user along fields like skills and location, project managers can drill down to find potential performance improvements and identify employees that may need coaching or extra support. He has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry and has managed dozens of software development projects.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 25, 2011

The company stated in 2003 and passed $30 million sales last year. He has three employees and sales of just a few hundred thousand dollars annually, selling control systems that save energy as retrofits to hot water systems. Daniel’s key to success, as he said accepting the award, was “trust my team.&#

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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

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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

APRIL 27, 2010

Moving on … My second post was directed at employees. If you’ve done it for a long time then I usually advise hiring managers to hire you as contractors and not full-time employees. Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

million through the Texas Enterprise Fund (TEF) for Facebook to create a sales and operations office in Austin. Facebook continues to grow and Austin, with its deep talent pool, would allow us to hire the high-caliber employees we need to properly serve the people, advertisers and developers that rely on our service.”.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 25, 2011

The company started in 2003 and passed $30 million sales last year. He has three employees and sales of just a few hundred thousand dollars annually, selling control systems that save energy as retrofits to hot water systems. Daniel’s key to success, as he said accepting the award, was “trust my team.&#

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Startup Company Lawyer

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

In response to the problem of worthless common stock, some companies have implemented employee retention plans, which are also referred to as M&A carveout plans. This was particularly common from 2001 to 2003, after the dot-com crash when companies had raised a large amount of venture financing at high valuations. Participation.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 9, 2019

Klaviyo is a platform that helps growth-focused e-commerce brands drive more sales with super targeted, highly relevant email, Facebook, and Instagram marketing. 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.

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Life Beyond Code

JUNE 26, 2011

During a 16-year span, Mr. Feuer, as CEO, grew the Company to almost 1,000 stores world-wide with annual sales of approximately $5 billion before selling this retail giant for almost $1.5 billion in December 2003. billion sale as a CEO? This applies to employees, vendors, (and investors?). Trust but verify.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I was driven by my desire for freedom and that’s what I got; along with an amazing opportunity to help transform my employees’ and my client’s lives through homeownership and real estate. This is when I realized that I can use my business/sales experience that can and therefore I quit my job on the spot and started BuffetGO.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The “mere exposure” effect helps explain why we continue to push similar songs to the top of the Billboard charts and why high-level brand awareness can ultimately lead to a sale. Then identify the questions that you need to ask potential employees. Managers and employees encounter false expertise in three ways: Promotions.

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Small Business Force

MARCH 11, 2017

However, the book “ Moneyball ” by Michael Lewis, published in 2003 and the follow-on movie, with Brad Pitt, from 2011, really seemed to bring it into mainstream thinking not just in sports, but in business and most everything else. For example, every business needs sales to succeed. But what drives your sales successes?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. Fund raising (as is much of life) is a sale – pure and simple. As with any sales campaign you need to: Qualify your buyers early so you focus your scarce resources on people likely to buy your product. .

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Things Change In 1956 Hewlett Packard (HP) was a 17-year old company with $20 million in test equipment sales with 900 employees. After failing dismally at making disposable digital cameras in 2003 Pure Digital Technologies reinvented their company in 2007 to make the Flip line of camcorders. But first some background.)

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

I’ve never liked being hemmed in, particularly by outdated systems or models or by projects that drain energy from employees rather than filling them up. What I love about this business is it keeps you constantly on your toes whether it’s creativity, technology, sales and marketing and social media promotions.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 17, 2019

John Jantsch: She is an author, speaker and former early employee of Twitter. So I mean I basically ended up as an early employee at Twitter after becoming an early user of the platform back in 2006. Claire Diaz-Ortiz: And ultimately it was becoming, it was the starting as a user that ended me as an employee of the company.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

By prioritizing direct interaction with customers, fostering a culture of innovation, viewing setbacks as learning opportunities, investing in employee development, and upholding integrity and ethical conduct, businesses can navigate the challenges of growth and achieve sustainable success. This is John Jantsch.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

But back in 1999, a then very young Netflix based in Los Gatos with less than 20 employees, was on the edge of going bust. Even worse, DVD sales were starting to lag, and a Hollywood backlash further muddied the situation. NETFLIX – Kate Arnold. Netflix is one of my all-time favorite products and companies.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

All of a sudden, you need to focus on a different set of challenges and concerns like establishing standard procedures and managing a large number of employees. I’d rather be solving intellectual challenges and figuring out key strategies, not debating which employees should get a promotion, or configuring project timelines.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Here, the “public” includes your customers, prospects, your employees, vendors, and others who connect in any way with your brand. Remember that you should evaluate both internal (your employees) and external (everyone else) perceptions of your brand. According to a study examining the effect of color on sales, 92.6%

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

We basically automated that and then the business grew over eight years to do a bunch of different things that were related to sales and marketing for car dealerships. Matt Watson: It is a hard skill to learn and I love our employees dearly, but managing employees is hard. They were very much a luxury item.

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The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

This is a representation of 2003 – 2013. In the US all the above reasons are relatively minor whereas in China it is clearly the lack of resources that keeps people in the employee status. But it stifles those with the potential to be great entrepreneurs. It scares them to try.

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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. April 29th, 2003 my first son was born.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Friendster was at its height, strongly battling MySpace after raising its premium round from Benchmark and Kleiner in the fall of 2003. Friendster raised a big round in 2003; MySpace started gaining traction. What’s more, the sales and marketing costs of acquiring listings are expensive.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2014

Running a company can be taxing so just remember – look up once in a while, take stock of how far you have come, and make sure to reward your employees for all their hard work. Mr. Wentzo joined Casewise in 2003 and has held a variety of Sales and Operational roles, with increasing responsibility.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I don’t actually have any employees. Because I have no employees, there’s a profit margin of about 70%, so it’s a really fantastic business model and gives me the freedom to travel and come back from my travel with more money than I left with. The biggest deal I’ve ever done was a sale of a $100,000 website. Deciding to Sell.

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