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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.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 19, 2009
I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. It included one firm who I asked not to call Salesforce.com as a reference (they were our largest pilot customer) and in their kindness they called Marc Benioff (the CEO) and asked his opinion. I thought, what would I do if I was trying to sell to a customer.
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Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). First and foremost, we believed there would be a “professional” social network.
mashable.com
MAY 9, 2011
Hire someone well-versed in communication between developers, customers and team members. ); // Welcome to Mashable! Sign in with Facebook or Twitter to get started! While many IT professionals can think technically, they have a hard time communicating it to a wide audience. Erica Nicole , YFS Magazine: Young, Fabulous & Self Employed.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. Try charging customers for your product when you have 12 competitors giving the product away free finances by $20 million of VC. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! The Exit Problem.
Austin Startup
APRIL 26, 2020
In honor of Netflix’s big beat today in the very unfortunate age of COVID-19, I decided to revisit my four-part Bazaarblog series while I was CEO of Bazaarvoice (from our inception in 2005 to our IPO in 2012). Second, when Brant and I founded Bazaarvoice there were only three retailers in the US with customer reviews. Remember that?
mashable.com
JULY 10, 2012
Chris Andrasick, CEO of Tacit Knowledge , believes that the mom-and-pop advantage extends beyond customer loyalty, and that there is in fact a logistical advantage, as well. “Ads and offers will appear on other pages the potential customer is viewing.”. Image courtesy of iStockphoto , iPandastudio , logorilla. Flag this comment.
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