A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 31, 2011

But this was 2003 when AdWords was new. You’re not seeking the One True Path, but rather any path that isn’t so circuitous that your finances or resolve runs dry before you reach the end. And what’s the point anyway? The fallacy here is that you can copy what I did and get a customer. I bought ads for $0.05/click

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

So, please note the TAM Analysis is a vitally important aspect of building any financing strategy. He needs to generate enough profit so that he can grow organically and build his business systematically, and without expecting a lot of outside financing. Raymond is wondering why he cannot attract financing.

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

So, please note the TAM Analysis is a vitally important aspect of building any financing strategy. He needs to generate enough profit so that he can grow organically and build his business systematically, and without expecting a lot of outside financing. Raymond is wondering why he cannot attract financing.

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Or the founders have taken on a small amount of seed financing, just enough to get them into the market. If our aim was to raise financing and employ these people directly, we’d have burnt through $5-7 million before launch. Our team is 5 engineers, 2 QA and a project manager. Either way, bootstrapping is a viable model.

Bootstrapping 41

Bootstrapping Offshore Startup EC2 41

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

For nearly 15 years I had analytical, numbers-driven jobs in finance and banking, working for some of the world’s largest banks. I saw my chance to create and — combined with the frustration I experienced with my day job in finance — I ran toward it with arms open. Thanks to Ostap Bosak, Royal Fur ! #17

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Green 91

Scalable Startup

JULY 19, 2011

Great PR and finance firms, but not many startups. Houses were cheaper, you couldn’t get good engineers, etc. In 2003 Electronic Arts actually moved their headquarters from Silicon Valley to Playa Vista, an crazy move at the time, and accelerated their growth as a result. That has all changed.

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California Southern California San Francisco Silicon Valley 20

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Around 2003, Quigo was doing tens of millions of dollars in revenue with two main products: a ready-to-use, search engine marketing solution for advertisers called FeedPoint and a contextual advertising platform for publishers called AdSonar. Quigo Lands Overture as Client, Rejects Their Acquisition Offer.

Semantic 302

Semantic Acquisition Valuation Angel Investor 302

The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

This is a representation of 2003 – 2013. External constraints or the lacks of resources (finance, skills, business idea) are relative minor reasons. Having an engineering or scientific background is what makes you more attractive for investment, not an MBA. But it stifles those with the potential to be great entrepreneurs.

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Europe South Korea San Francisco Portugal 163

Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

So last year Eileen Lee, did this amazing study where she dug into data going back to 2003. First thing we started with was trying to come up with a new type of financing document. Jason is a former Google engineer, worked on healthcare.gov rescue team and had started a traditionally VC backed company the last time around.

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Venture Capital Valuation Los Angeles Chicago 40

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

With science and engineering breakthroughs ingrained in the fabric of Houston’s economy, the region has become a thriving hub of digital technology talent. At the same time, early-stage companies are thinking beyond the high prices of Silicon Valley to put down roots and find financing and growth partners.

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Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 90

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. These include building products, recruiting, managing your finances, marketing, selling, getting feedback from customers and … fund raising. I’ve raised seed rounds and A-D rounds. Call it your functional pie chart.

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Developer Silicon Valley PR Las Vegas 366

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2010

In 2003 we started developing a martial arts motion sensing toy, a full three years before the Nintendo Wii changed the world of motion sensing. I found the perfect person at the department of Industrial Design Engineering of the Delft University of Technology. What follows are solely his opinions. Better yet, he plays drums.

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Continuous Deployment Technical Cofounder Cofounder San Francisco 164

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. That meant that if the change was starting on the founders side, then there had to be a change on the financing side. And then I taught a class called “Intelligent Growth in Startups” in the engineering department.

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Founder Lean Venture Capital Cofounder 68

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Four years later, in May of 2003, they launched Taobao Marketplace, Alibaba’s answer to eBay. They have helped 2,000 substitute teachers get in the classroom in 2018, including 400 educators who earned permits, which Swing willingly financed. Here are an example of two such companies that we have funded in the past few years.

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Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

When you typed some keywords into your search engine of choice, you may have laughed when you saw the link for www.poopbags.com come up. Well, when I was walking my dog in the summer of 2003, I laughed too when I first thought about the idea…. Finance generic logos. But you are also unlikely to recall any of those companies!

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Marketing Charlotte Naming Design 162

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

He teaches at the NYU School of Engineering , and for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps , and co-author with Giff Constable of Talking to Humans: Success Starts With Understanding Your Customers. Frank has spent 20+ years in technology companies and venture capital, working at Lucent , Sun Microsystems , Apple and NeXT.

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Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Cofounder Investment Bankers 120

VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

The Israeli Cabinet approved Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz’s proposal to continue with the biennial state budget model in 2011-2012. The acquisition of PBM adds another growth engine for Perrigo, which already has a 75% share of the store brand over the counter (OTC) drug market in the US.

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OTC Brazil Paraguay 68

techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. As a refresher, a convertible note is a loan that automatically converts into equity upon the closing of a Series A round of financing. → Learn More. Sometimes these loans have a valuation cap and/or a discount. Your guide for the best gadget gifts of 2011.

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Equity San Francisco Technical Review Angel Investor 87

techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. In fact, Wilson Sonsini will close financings for startups using Docs for their seed rounds but you must become a client of the firms. Before we had to guess how many connections were actually financed,” explains Ravikant. → Learn More. Gift Guide.

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Term Sheet San Francisco Technical Review Seed Stage 70

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Mark: Google had trouble dealing with customers and contracts because they historically were so engineering driven. 29:45 minutes.

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Software Review Software St. Louis API 285

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2013

by Dean Zerbe, alliantgroup National Managing Director, and former Senior Counsel to the Senate Finance Committee. However, there is good news and a good idea coming from a bipartisan group of lawmakers that would do much to help innovative startup companies, the engine of U.S. Senate Committee on Finance. When it comes to U.S.

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Small Business United States Washington Startup 145

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Zucker, a veteran news executive, will succeed Jim Walton, who has had the job since 2003. The networking company will close the deal early next year with Cariden Bay, which specializes in software for planning, designing and engineering computer networks. Jeff Zucker to be new president of CNN Worldwide. Source: The Next Web ]. -

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93