YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2011

Through the application, you can easily schedule appointments with even SMS text messages for notifications, customer reminders and promotional messages, and receive notifications by SMS or email when customers book an appointment. TimeCenter is developed by Sweden-based Niclas Marie and Daniel Ellenson.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2013

I still drive the same car I bought for cash in 2005. Work on budgets, submit RFPs, answer customers support calls, work the bug-tracking software, and trying to meet the next sprint release schedule. Your 2am coding session is more important than their 2am cocktails on the redeye back from Japan where they have no customers.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

” – Marc Andreessen In the book “ Super Founders “, author Ali Tamaseb, studied 200 Unicorns, aka startups valued at over $1 billion, started between 2005 to 2018. To implement this trait, founders need to have a deep understanding of their customers’ needs and pain points, as well as the market landscape.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I first met Ethan in 2005. And because I wanted Ethan to be able to attract a great team, build & iterate a product, test it with initial customers and refine his strategy before having to take the wrappers off of his company. I was preparing to move back to the US from London after 11 years abroad. So there you have it.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 7, 2019

In 2005, Neil began his first marketing blog, which grew to become the leading source of marketing insights that it is today. NP Digital receives consistently positive reviews from its customers. He made another mistake, investing in a web hosting company called Vision Web Hosting. He went on to lose about $1 million on the venture.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2016

In June of 2005 while on vacation with my wife, I received a call from my brother. The service helps customers save money because clean filters use less energy and help avert costly repairs. We had no experience in running an Internet filtering software business, but this didn’t concern us. This rating put Safe Eyes on the map.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 2, 2017

It used to be that a business would gain customers only from the neighborhood surrounding its location. Now, thanks to internet technology, your customers can be from around your state — or around the world. by John Donovan, CEO of Bizfi.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Obviously over the years since this was a tool that was acquired by Google in 2005 already, the use case kind of evolved because people come to your website not only via your browser but maybe also via mobile devices and maybe have different experiences than what a website actually meant in 2005.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Custom Everything. The reason is simple: why leave the comfort of your own home when you can get something custom made to your exact size for less? Customized Outfit Planning. . Custom Designs. More and more companies these days are allowing customers to represent themselves through custom designs.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The project was a little unexpected – creating customer cereal boxes called Obama-Os and Cap’n McCains, timely for the 2008 elections. The company didn’t turn a profit until 2003, but by 2005 business was booming – Netflix was shipping out a million DVDs daily. And it’s a definite win-win for the customers and the manufacturer.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

So when Sherri Tafoya, President and Founder of Customs Blinds & Design contacted us raving about the system, we asked her to share her experience and she graciously obliged. “I Founded Custom Blinds For Less, Inc. Take it away, Sherri! in February 2000 – part time, with the goal to quit my full-time job within one year.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 24, 2011

In order to charge more and get what you’re worth you’ve got to take some time and get very serious about measuring one thing – value or results that a customer receives. Here’s how to do that Create a process that requires you to meet with every customer for something I call a “results review.”

Small Business 67

Small Business Marketing Software Review Social Media 67

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 21, 2020

It was created and delivered in 2005. The product is authorized to foreign trade dealers who offer the product to their customers. The merchant runs the server constituent, and the client software is given to the representative’s customers, who use it to see live streaming bills and graphs, put orders, and manage their records.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Accessing a wealth of applications are available that can be customized for your business or situation. About the author: John Quinn is the principal and founder of Merrimac Solutions, which he started in 2005. Being able to more easily budget costs when utilizing managed cloud solutions. Having availability 24/7.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 10, 2011

Business owners must learn to manage and juggle a complex and shifting combination of customer, partner, vendor, staff and advisory relationships in order to survive and grow. Internal customer – How often do you take the internal temperature? It may be one of the most important reflections of the service your customers receive.

Small Business 59

Small Business Marketing Software Review Social Media 59

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 10, 2015

And if the sales department’s direct connection to customers is being neglected, that great marketing plan could fall on deaf ears. Oh, and the same goes for your customer service team. In some companies, marketing and production have a higher status than sales and customer care.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2011

The marketing strategy is delivered to and through the staff to the ultimate delight and inspiration of the customer. In fact, I’ve said it many times, your staff is likely delivering the same experience to your customers as they are receiving from you.

Small Business 60

Small Business Marketing Social Media Software Review 60

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

I’ve always been a fan of startup resources lists and had a dedicated page on VC Cafe since the blog’s inception in 2005. Sales, Marketing and customer success. While some things change slowly, maintaining the list current proved tricky as time went by. Hope you find them helpful. ?

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mashable.com

MARCH 20, 2014

While some startups keep operations running from proceeds of fundraising, its important to understand — before you join the company — how the startup intends to make money from customers or users. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. ©2005-2014 Mashable, Inc.

Technical Review 103

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2012

With quirky features such as a “banana” phone for customer complaints/queries, cute job titles such as “Chief Squeeze” and “Juice Press”, wickedly witty bottle labels, and a “grass” covered delivery van, Innocent isn’t any ordinary company. With our time when coaching others.

Technical Review 150

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Steve Blank

MAY 10, 2017

I first heard about him when his driverless car won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge. 5:30 Pricing (Customer Validation, Sales, Pricing). 8:30 Customer Discovery (What is the Lean Stack). 21:25 How Do You Find Out What Customers Really Want? Customer Discovery, Pivots) Filed under: Customer Development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2022

million, born 2005-2024, yet to be defined Generation X (Generation Me) – 64.9 First, a quick summary of the major U.S. demographic generations out there today, ranked from large to small: Generation Y (Millennials) – 82.9 million, born 1985-2004, biggest business opportunity Baby Boomers (no other name) – 70.7

Architecture 258

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

In 2005, while at the CIA, Don helped found Intellipedia , the Intelligence Community-wide wiki, with his colleague Sean Dennehy. If we think about that, even in the 2000s, (circa), 2005, the iPhone wasn’t out yet and we were still really emerging into the modern era. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

We were in Cabo San Lucas in April 2005 using our last few weeks of vacation at Coremetrics before I left to take the plunge to start Bazaarvoice with Brant Barton. their customers. You mean that customers can write negative things about the products we’ve curated?! ” Rachel was just six months old. There was meaning in that?—?the

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2010

I’ve been teaching Customer Development at U.C. Berkeley’s Haas Business School since the fall of 2004 and in a joint MBA with Columbia since 2005. Berkeley was brave enough to let me write and teach a class on a subject that no one had ever heard of – Customer Development. Four Steps. are unknown. are unknown.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

Here’s an example: let’s say one of your business goals for the year is to increase renewal business from existing customers by 15%. To develop your marketing strategy, think about the marketing efforts it would take to get more customers to renew.

Marketing 54

Marketing Social Media Software Review Small Business 54

Austin Startup

AUGUST 24, 2019

At Coremetrics, I had to use mainframes and dumb terminals, clients and servers, the credit card industry, and any other analogy we could think of when explaining our idea to prospective investors, customers, and partners. Our customers would rave about us on stage. We could be very consultative with our customers?—?teaching

Software Review 48

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Though the notion of a “lean startup” that uses both Agile and Customer Development approaches is ostensibly strongly customer focused, the purpose of these methodologies is for the company to find an maximize its market, not specifically to optimize the user experience.

Technology 168

Technology Coder Semantic Social Media 168

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2012

When not approached carefully, growth can destroy value as it outstrips a company’s managerial capacity, processes, quality, and financial controls, or substantially dilutes customer value propositions. Every business must continually improve its customer value proposition better than its competition in order to stay viable.

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www.ashmaurya.com

AUGUST 29, 2012

Robert has been working in software since 2005. You can learn more about his approach to developing customer relationships in his new book Cold Calling Early Customers. There are many channels that can produce your first early customers and contacts, but the one I see most often is cold email. He is a Ph.D.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

Explain how you love providing great service and encourage customers to review your service. Make customers aware of the review page via: Business cards – on the back: “Love our service? Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : As the importance of Facebook as small business marketi.

Web 47

Web Software Review Cofounder Small Business 47

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

And even the above mentioned difficulties notwithstanding, it’s completely unclear how to pay those customers we’ve rented computing resources from. To the customer, the price in question would be really low: for instance, if we divide the price of renting the CompecTA supercomputer for one month by 10 000, we’ll get no more than 6 cents.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

These portals gave employees of Sprint corporate customers access to discounts on Sprint products and services. A pervasive problem was that the discounts Sprint offered to the employees of its corporate customers were being underutilized, thus not really serving as much of an employee benefit.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2019

is a fraud solutions and e-commerce provider founded in 2005; the company was acquired by Mastercard International in 2019. What do you consider your strengths in dealing with colleagues and customers? . Fielding was also an initial investor in Ethoca Solutions Inc., for which he served as chairman of the board of directors.

Leadership 48

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2016

Ted Rheingold: In 2003 I owned and ran a web service business called OneMatchFire , and made a number of image sharing products for customers (or as side projects). Though I should point out was still doing client work for OneMatchFire until mid-2005 until the business could pay full salaries. How did the site come about?

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Startup Cofounder SMS 48

Growthink Blog

JANUARY 19, 2014

In 2005, GoDaddy.com became the world’s largest ICANN-accredited registrar on the internet. What it has managed to do is take something which is ordinarily very technical, in this case domain registrations, and make it appeal to a wide range of customers. There are a number of different problems that a customer might run into.

Technical Review 104

Technical Review Private Equity Hosting Advertising 104

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 26, 2021

Kara Goldin is the founder and CEO of Hint Water, a flavored water brand founded in 2005. Closing the loop on your marketing investment, on your channels, on your customer engagement, are important. Click here to listen to the episode. Kara Goldin – How to Find Inspiration in Doubt. Click here to listen to the episode.

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