View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

million raised, per CrunchBase): It came from my deep frustration renting as an undegrad at Oxford for the first time back in 2005. With domain expertise and a background in aerospace, we reached out to our personal networks (and essentially anyone that would talk to us).

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

Cameron is t he founder of the COO Alliance, the World’s Leading Network for Seconds in Command. John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the duct tape marketing podcast is brought to you by the female startup club, hosted by Doone Roisin and brought to you by the HubSpot podcast network. Marketing Podcast with Cameron Herold.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 21, 2011

Both of these moved signal a renewed focus on making both Profiles and Places pages more important in their ecosystem and perhaps ultimately in a social network of some sort. The cities chosen for the City Page beta test closely align with the first Google Offers beta tests and can be supported by the local Google sales and support staff.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 16, 2011

Creating ready made ways to amplify your customer’s desire to promote is one of the secrets to extending your reach and impact into new customer opportunities. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : As the importance of Facebook as small business marketi. 5 Steps to Successful Fac.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 10, 2011

How about monitoring the relationship between internal teams like sales and marketing? How happy is your staff? It may be one of the most important reflections of the service your customers receive. Event follow-up – A quick way to monitor how your webinar, conference or presentation went. Business owners and marketers don’t necessarily need.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2012

Social network addiction around the world (Israelis are the most addicted) – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. 41 billion has been lost or is likely to go unspent in gift cards issued since 2005 – [link]. This is wild.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). The servers are in the cloud, his advertising sales is with Google, etc. Having managed a lot of software development both local and offshore, this is a topic I plan to write more on.

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

By Issie Lapowsky | Aug 6, 2010 Share ); Getty Related Articles The New Rules of Hiring Is It Legal To Use Social Network Data When Hiring? That was the thought behind Meebos decision to offer a $5,000 reward to anyone who referred qualified potential employees to the company that launched in 2005. 500|5000 The 2010 Inc.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Likely encouraged by various government schemes to grow the games and animation sector , the Singapore video games industry in recent years have expanded rapidly, growing from $87 million in 2005 to $285 million in 2007. Specifically for the mobile games, worldwide revenue is forecasted to surge from US$13.2 billion to US$22 billion.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 2013

1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Cotter bucks the flavor-of-the-day entrepreneurial stereotype: the college dropout popularized by both our own Michael Dell and recently Mark Zuckerberg and the great movie The Social Network. At the beginning of Bazaarvoice in 2005, the market risk was whether or not we could convince retailers to embrace both the positive?—?and

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Mucker Lab

MAY 21, 2013

1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. (Internet).

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 23, 2007

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. The following chart compare the impact of the tsunami in 2005 on the website traffic vs. the viral marketing campaign that they launched in 2007 with Popular Media. Labels: internet , sales and marketing.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Memorable Postcard from a New Mechanic My Report on StackOverflow DevDays → Are Twitter and Facebook Killing Blogs? That’s a mistake. When Twitter dies down what then?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2020

Click fraud first came to light in 2005, when several major cases were taken to court. Some networks are highly sophisticated, and organisers disguise their IP addresses. Wired refers to these as “hordes of linked machines controlled by rogue software.” Google Display Network). Competing businesses.

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www.ashmaurya.com

AUGUST 29, 2012

Robert has been working in software since 2005. You research the market and develop some materials that will improve their standing, sales, or prospects. This can be really effective, and I was best introduced to the idea in Chet Holmes ‘ The Ultimate Sales Machine. He is a Ph.D.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2011

I’m no science wiz, but I’ve always loved the idea of resistance in physics as a metaphor for the kind of resistance many business owners encounter when trying to spark a sale. Many times we can present a solution and price that seems like the obvious and logical choice, but can’t seem to make the sale.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 14, 2011

You could change the subject to email or face to face networking or press releases, but the implication is always that some long established marketing tactic has been supplanted by Twitter or Facebook. My answer is always the same – nothing is dead – but the ways we use them have changed.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

Mahan Khalsa Mahan Khalsa is the founder of the Sales Performance Group of FranklinCovey , the creator of the Helping Clients Succeed sales improvement program taught in over 40 countries and 10 different languages. He is currently a founding partner at Ninety Five 5 (Less Nonsense – More Sales).

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 13, 2011

Far too often marketers spend all of their attention on the chase and the sale and not enough on the retain and remarkable experience. It’s certainly a big topic, but I love that attract and retain are used in the same setting because they are certainly linked arm in arm in a business that wants to build any kind of marketing momentum.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 28, 2011

If indeed you have any vision of selling your business in the future you’ve got to focus on marketing instead of simply focusing on sales. In my opinion, a greater focus on these elements not only creates greater sales, it leads to the creation of a more valuable asset – or something you might indeed be able to sell.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 14, 2011

Gives you the ability to initiate help and sales chats while visitors are on your site. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from Flickr. Image kase3k via Flickr Good stuff I found this week: Olark – Very full featured real time chat tool for your web site. Business owners and marketers don’t necessarily need.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

Jim Connolly Jim Connolly specializes in helping small businesses to make massively more sales and boost their profits, through common sense marketing. I Hate Selling, So Now How Do I Convert Leads 1 Many business owners attract sales leads, but feel uncomfortable converting those leads into paying clients.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 10, 2011

If you’ve ever wondered why your pure sales messages meet with resistance and deflection it’s because to most prospects you look like someone that is out to steal their money, time and attention – something akin to a predator. Related Posts: Are There Holes In Your Network? 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

Tim Berry Tim Berry is the president and founder of Palo Alto Software, founder of bplans.com, and a co-founder of Borland International, author of books and software on business planning, Stanford MBA, father of five, married 41 years. His latest book is The Plan-As-You-Go-Business-Plan. That leads to revisions and course corrections.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2011

On the surface it’s a stock market like game where individuals and companies offer shares of stock for sale and that stock value is measured based on demand, actions taken on Empire Avenue and the collective participation and engagement in social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube. . First off, what is it.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

When you want to get more “leads” into the top of your sales funnel, you have the option of not requiring people to register to get the valuable content that your company creates (an ebook or white paper perhaps). With a gate, each person downloading becomes a valuable sales lead. You have a choice.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 25, 2011

Often times we want to make our stuff sound so important and wonderful that it comes off confusing and complex – confusion equals no sale! Balancing both of these needs is the tricky part. Business owners and marketers don’t necessarily need.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

Social Media & Networking – 90% of marketers say that social media is important for their business according to the 2011 Social Media Marketing Report. Word of mouth, referrals and buzz on social networks can increase awareness, build trust and influence sales. Business owners and marketers don’t necessarily need.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

Mahan Khalsa Mahan Khalsa is the founder of the Sales Performance Group of FranklinCovey , the creator of the Helping Clients Succeed sales improvement program taught in over 40 countries and 10 different languages. He is currently a founding partner at Ninety Five 5 (Less Nonsense – More Sales).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry. 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. Bottom of the sales funnel. Morning in VC.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

We had started that, and again you’re right, you and I had a conversation because of course you have this network of talented consultants and our friend Michael Port same thing. They’re the point of contact for the sale, but they’re also doing the substance of work for them as well. It’s software with a service.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

For more insights, download these four free sales tools. Jill Konrath Jill Konrath, author of SNAP Selling & Selling to Big Companies, helps sellers crack into new accounts and win big contracts. I Hate Selling, So Now How Do I Convert Leads 2 Stop selling then – at least the way you think you’re supposed to.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

Wendy Weiss Wendy Weiss, The Queen of Cold Calling™ , is an author, speaker, sales trainer, and sales coach. Read all five posts in today’s series and come back each day this week for five new posts in this great educational series and another chance to win. She is the author of the book, Cold Calling for Women.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

Michael Schultz Mike Schultz, author of Rainmaking Conversations , is President of RAIN Group, a sales training , assessment, and performance improvement company, and publisher of RainToday.com. Those that turn their sales fortunes around stop hating it. I wish learning to love sales would be as easy as telling you, “Try it!

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Facebook started out as a directory of Harvard students, where users could manage their networks, profiles, and communicate with classmates. Up till 2005, Thefacebook was a network for students, but it expanded beyond Ivy League, and even beyond the U.S. This version of the software reflects the main functionality and interface.

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