YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2013

This compressed workweek ranked as the most common method of adopting a summer schedule among businesses in a 2005 Society for Human Resource Management survey. Professionalisms Barry Sloane company policy Newtek Business Services summer talent management talent retention vacation' For example, if you let employees leave at 1 p.m.

Retention 191

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

And the same thing happened after we sold IT WatchDogs in 2005. After I sold Smart Bear, that division has increased revenue and profit every year, for five years, even through the 2008/2009 economic disaster. The crap of it is, those VC’s who continue to invest in Nguyen are acting rationally.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2022

And I think as we talk just a little bit, as we got started, you started in 2005. Matter of fact, my sponsor GoDaddy, which I've had since 2005, it's remarkable. He's a podcast advertising specialist and also founded the tech podcast network way back in the dinosaur days of podcasting 2004. So Todd, welcome to the show.

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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. In a small company, cost-saving ideas, customer retention, and marketing concepts can come from anywhere. They don’t have to.

Small Business 210

Small Business Retention Government Distribution 210

ConversionXL

AUGUST 24, 2015

Why Gamify Customer Retention? We borrow the mechanics of traditional games and apply them to uncommon concepts, like customer retention. A study in the Harvard Business Review noted that increasing customer retention by 5% can generate a 25%-95% increase in profit. But how can we use it to retain more customers? Image Source.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 5, 2015

The earliest use of the phrase I could find was in 2005 in Rex Hammond’s post Google acquires(?) The four that are most relevant in my mind are product, technology, customers, and people. Acquihire only really refers to one of these things, which is people. Dodgeball.com. Google acquires(?)

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. The spin-out took a few months to negotiate and didn’t actually close until February 2005.

Valuation 98

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 1, 2015

In 2005, David Choe was invited to paint a number of murals at Facebook’s HQ in Palo Alto. More often than not, equity compensation is an attraction and retention tool, rather than a replacement to salary. Equity compensation is when you offer your employees equity in your business (a “share” in company ownership).

Equity 60

Equity Employee Stock Options Vesting 60

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

His latest book, “ Flip the Funnel: How to use existing customers to gain new ones ,” presents a powerful hypothesis that retention can become the new acquisition through the strategic incorporation and elevation of customer service, customer experience and customer initiated word-of-mouth, content creation and incentive-based referrals.

Small Business 53

Small Business Marketing Social Media Cofounder 53

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

His latest book, “ Flip the Funnel: How to use existing customers to gain new ones ,” presents a powerful hypothesis that retention can become the new acquisition through the strategic incorporation and elevation of customer service, customer experience and customer initiated word-of-mouth, content creation and incentive-based referrals.

Social Media 32

Social Media Retention Acquisition LLC 32

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

For that reason, Barefoot offered our employees bonuses for sales, cost reductions, customer retention, and more. And production is what you really want, because that’s where profits come from. If someone helped us grow our profits, he or she got to take home more of them.

Employee 245

Employee Hiring Cost Retention 245

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Protection of records to enable accurate and ready retrieval throughout the record retention period. According to the FDA, between 2005-2009, sales reps from ev3 encouraged surgeons to use Onyx outside the brain in unproven and dangerous ways. Limiting access to authorized individuals.

Technical Review 111

Technical Review Software Review Canada Startup 111

Up and Running

JUNE 3, 2014

The salesperson who built the relationship with you in the beginning would make the sale, and then pass you off to a retention manager, and it was easy to slip through the cracks or simply become a monthly paycheck. and 11 percent , respectively—double what it was in 2008, and triple what it was in 2005. No businesses, no trash.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 12, 2006

The acquisition price of $350mm is pretty sweet validation for the open source model considering that the multiples are about 20x trailing revenue ($20mm estimated revenue in 2005) and 6-7x forward ($50-60mm estimate for 2006). And on top of that the company only raised $10mm which means it was incredibly capital efficient.

Open Source 60

Open Source Architecture Retention Revenue 60

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

When you account for competition for talent, the difficulty of retention, the cost of living and the difficulty of rising above the noise – there are many advantages of staying put. They have the same trade-off decisions that you do about packing up and moving to Silicon Valley vs. staying and building locally. No Dave S. =

Seattle 317

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 30, 2018

The key is to connect user research to an improved user experience and, in turn, an increase in customer retention, leads, or any other metric for which C-suite members are accountable. At Samsung, user research led the company to redesign its televisions in 2005, doubling their market share in just two years.

Design 111

Design Framework Product Development Technical Review 111

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 10, 2018

As I started talking to people who were in healthcare organizations, patient care and retention came up over and over. I expanded my practice into Your Wellness Connection in 2005, because I could see that people needed a place where they could easily meet with a variety of healthcare practitioners from a variety of different modalities.

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur Detroit Software Review Florida 102

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

In the United States alone, the number of remote workers increased 115% in the decade spanning 2005 to 2015, and the trend shows no sign of slowing. Here are just a few reasons why: – It’s great for recruiting and retention. Even before the sudden shifts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, remote work was increasing in popularity.

United States 186

United States India Retention Internet 186

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

What was a Series A round in 2005 is now a pre-seed or seed round. You’ve built detailed analytics tracking into your product and you should be seeing organic and viral growth; and can provide Daily/Weekly/Monthly Active Users, 30d/90d/120d retention. Retention and low attrition are good signs of customer validation.

Cofounder 429

Cofounder Seed Stage Valuation Metrics 429

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

I went to university in Waterloo in 2005 for engineering. Not only is the company small, but the startup’s retention rate is near zero. That’s only important because, as part of the engineering degree there, you have to complete six four-month internships over your course,” Livingston tells TNW in an interview. Over the 4.5

Entrepreneur 167

Entrepreneur CTO Hire Startup Mobile 167

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Since the launch of the original launch of Google Analytics in 2005, Google has rolled out 4 iterations of the most widely used analytics platforms on the web. GA1 : Urchin, 2005. In this article, we’ll fill you in on what you need to know. A brief overview of Google Analytics 4. GA2 : Classic, 2008. GA3 : Universal, 2013. All Events.

Analytics 117

Analytics Web Mobile Video 117

YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2017

The numbers are also there to support this theory, according to the Pew research center, social media use among Americans have risen from 5% in 2005 to 69% in 2016. Allow easy discovery of other users contents, and must be powerful for retention.

Social Media 162

Social Media Media Mobile SMS 162

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

EB : Honestly, I wasn't even aware of Silicon Valley or this whole concept of startups and tech companies until 2005. My answer's really it isn't, that is, since 2005, a lot has changed. Say a little bit about what drove you to want to come to Silicon Valley in the first place. EB : Yeah. Is this the requirement?

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

It makes you look like a religious zealot and a kind of high self-regarding anal retentive. In 2005 our no-longer-startup was bought for $350 Million, making many millionaires of the original employees and investors. Only like minds want to work for someone like that. March 27, 2011 at 2:26 pm. My response: [link]. Bill Beebe.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value. VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Seed Startups. VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Performable â??

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