Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Lately I’ve been having to say things I thought I’d never have to remind people, like, “getting to positive gross margin in several territories is a very low bar to claim success” or “profitable excluding marketing costs” is not actually a real thing. Market Size. MakeSpace provides physical storage.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 13, 2020

I had already been freelance writing for several years and decided to turn it into a business, creating content, ghostwriting, and teaching businesses to use storytelling and Cause Marketing through keynotes, trainings, and my books. I now am the CEO and founder of Berri Properties in Asheville and Charlotte, NC.

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Where to Play

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The post 3 Steps to Discover Your Most Valuable Market Opportunities appeared first on Market Opportunity Navigator. About “Where to Play” In today’s fast-paced business world, entrepreneurs, innovators, and business leaders are trained to act quickly in order to make their ideas a success.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

The CEOs on the panel were (from left to right): Michael Simon, CEO/founder of LogMeIn (2009 IPO) . Niraj Shah, CEO/cofounder of Wayfair ($500m revenue). Colin Angle, CEO/cofounder of iRobot (2005 IPO). Paul English, CTO/cofounder of Kayak ($200m revenue, S-1 filed). Scott Griffith, CEO ZipCar (2010 IPO).

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. They looked nervous at having to speak with me impromptu and without the benefit of financial figures to scoff at, product pitches that they’ve seen 100 times and a market sizing to unpick. I wasn’t feeling it.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Ciro Donalek , CTO and Co-founder, believes immersive environments are a great way to collaborate with other people and build compelling stories about your data anywhere in the world and in real time. In 2005, my wife and I moved to Pasadena from Naples, Italy, to join Caltech for what should have been a 10-month stint.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like.

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www.frozennorth.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Friday - May 27, 2005 at 09:21 AM in. During the two days of the show, one of their programmers sat in on my speech about building better customer service automation; I had an hour-long chat with the CEO and another of the founders; and their PR manager stopped by our booth for a 15-minute briefing about what we do. buy it on Amazon.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

We started the Barefoot Wine brand in our laundry room in 1986, made it a nationwide bestseller, and successfully sold the brand to E&J Gallo in 2005. Starting with virtually no money and no wine industry experience, we employed innovative ideas to overcome obstacles and create new markets. Think creatively about marketing.

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David Teten

JUNE 7, 2011

Until recently, most Internet innovation has centered around improvements — big improvements, but incremental ones nonetheless — to existing business models and familiar social structures: Amazon is the ultimate retail destination, Zipcar the ubiquitous rental-car agency; Meetup is a sewing circle on steroids.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Press and analysts characterized LinkedIn in one of two ways: “LinkedIn is an interesting niche that might be worth paying attention to” or “LinkedIn is the Friendster for business”. we weren’t the natural leader of a market or technology trend that everyone was paying attention to, we didn’t have substantial organic growth, and.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

When 37signals talked about giving something away for free as a marketing strategy , it made a lot of sense to me: “For us, Writeboard and Ta-da list are completely free apps that we use to get people on the path to using our other products. I asked CrazyEgg co-founder Hiten Shah why they decided to drop their free plan back then.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

The kinds of places where you have to sign an NDA when you walk in the lobby… When I lived and worked in the bay area (2000-2005) virtually all the startups were down on the peninsula somewhere. I think the long-tail (size in terms of market cap, revenue, employees etc – pick one doesn’t matter) is moving towards the city.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

March 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the Harvard ComputerSociety.) And since a startup thatsucceeds ordinarily makes its founders rich, that implies gettingrich is doable too. The market price is less than the inconvenience of signing an NDA. Ideally you want between two and four founders. Hard, but doable.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

With all of the new ways to see early companies such as TechCrunch and YCombinator, I had a feeling that much of the luster was gone and debated whether it was worth the time to attend.The last time I went to DEMO was in 2005 for the launch of one of my companies, iControl Networks.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

It feels a lot like NYC as a whole did back in 2005--a handful of relatively disconnected folks, a few marquee companies and a whole lot of pent up interest in doing something impactful in the local community. What's the business model? Android Backlash.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? Updated Business tools for Startups. Whether you’re wondering what site search you should use or what is the best email marketing tool, knowledge is power. Inbound Marketing vs Interruption marketing. Email marketing. Market Research.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

Inbound marketing. Conversational marketing. In retrospect, brand-owned terms feel inevitable: What could modern marketing be other than inbound marketing? What is clear is the close tie between the rise of term usage and brand awareness: Brand Brand-Owned Term Correlation in Search Interest HubSpot “inbound marketing” 0.82

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

If you have or are thinking about a business in the video space you’ll enjoy hearing from Gregg but even more broadly this is a great conversation for entrepreneurs, investors or industry analysts. Why do a freemium model? This is to drive marketing and any IT or infrastructure spend can be seen as such.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. BookRenter – plus a discussion about Chegg … what is going on in the university book market? Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital.

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