Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

I became a VC 12 years ago in 2007 when the pace of deals was much slower. The first check I wrote was just over 10 years ago into a company called Invoca who just announced a new $56 million in funding led by Scott Hilleboe at HIG Growth Partners. We now serve many large clients like Dish Networks, Dignity Health, and U.S.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 20, 2023

He was the founding CEO of Ticketmaster-Citysearch and was a partner at McKinsey & Company. He was founding CEO at Ticketmaster City Search and was a partner at McKinsey and Company. So in 2007, they had no position in consumer finance. And the four examples I give that they did from 2007 to 2015 were all failures.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. AngelList also partnered with SecondMarket to create an investment vehicle for these investments. Life360, A Family Networking App With More. Leena Rao is currently a Senior Editor for TechCrunch.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 10, 2009

United apologized, plans to use the video internally to help " change its culture ," and, according to a spokeswoman for the carrier: "We are in conversation with one another to make what happened right." Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio. Bessemer Venture Partners Expands BVP VII Fund. ► 2007. (10).

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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. It started in 2007 here in Austin and was founded by my friend Matt Cohen. And in the mid-1980s, that guardian angel was Aldus PageMaker.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). His view: sometimes entrepreneurs expect too much value from the partner.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

This episode explores how to think about growth in turbulent times, according two growth experts: a16z general partner Andrew Chen, who previously led the growth team at Uber, and Brian Balfour, formerly the VP of Growth at HubSpot, now the founder and CEO of Reforge, a masterclass in growth strategies. ” We have to watch our cash.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 7, 2012

My partner Seth Levine turns 40 today. Seth didn’t seem to mind that most of our conversations started with me saying something like “well – this is all f *d up, but I need your help on …” I remember when I realized I was going to learn a lot from working with Seth. That would change – in 2007.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Consumer Barometer was created by IAB Europe with TNS Infratest and Google as partners. I spend 70% of my time in the US and for those discussions I'm primary looking at speed (connection above), mobile penetration (yes, 2007 was the year of mobile!), and mobile intent to purchase (I love this data).

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

This is going to show you the dependency on several critical variables: Cost per lead Conversion rates at each stage of your sales process Level of touch required Then compare this to your expected monetization. Leveraging the power of your customers’social networks to get viral growth where possible.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

SAP Global Trade Services, SAP R/3, Other Technologies / ITO Agreements / IT Intel ABC has created a custom application server using Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle WebLogic Server called ABC Unified Strategic Information Optimization Network, or FUSION. Citrix Presentation Server 4.0, Citrix Presentation Server 4.5, Oracle PeopleSoft 8.9,

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

This time I told him I’d run it by my partners and get their feedback. Seth, Jason, Ryan, and I had a long conversation about it after going through the AvidXchange financing deck and monthly financial package. I expected that we’d decide to pass and set up the conversation with them this way.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Monday, February 12, 2007. Bessemer was also heavily represented with David Cowan , managing partner and co-founder of VeriSign ( see his post about the event ), Rob Stavis , BVP’s New York-based managing partner who led our investment in Skype, Byron Deeter , partner and founder of Trigo and our COO/managing partner Ed Colloton.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2018

Network with all the finalists from 11 am to 1:30 pm on Monday, March 12, at SXSW Accelerator Demo Day , at the Hilton Austin, Salon C. I attended in 2007. Bruce Sterling’s closing keynote/rant where he talked about the internet in 2007 as “folk” technology. Who is your team looking to network with at SXSW 2018?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 23, 2011

Keep the Wall interesting by mixing content Network It’s kind of ironic how little traditional networking goes on inside many social networks. One very powerful way to do this on Facebook is to Like other active pages and start to network with, converse, ask and answer relevant questions as your Page inside of these communities.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 2, 2013

How 2007 of me. Like most Internet tools and social networks things change and there are always new and better ways to use them meet your objectives. For me, it’s a tool to amplify my own content, filter and aggregate other people’s content and network for links and conversations. How 2007 of me.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 18, 2011

Keepstream – tool that allows you to organize and publish an archive of things on Twitter such as events streams, specific conversations or a product launch and then embed the conversation on your site. Also makes a great way to share a conversation about a client to help them understand the buzz.

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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. Every year since ’98 was the year of mobile and it didn’t really happen until the iPhone 2007. There’s some congruency here.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

My partner Brad literally wrote the book about this (highly recommended if you haven’t read it already). Additionally these communities are meshed in their network structure vs being hub and spoke or centralized. In 2007 Foundry moved from an office park on the highway to the west side of town.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 3, 2011

Lead generation in this content driven social model is still a metered blend of advertising, public relations and referrals, but social is the mechanism driving the discovery and the conversation surrounding this powerful form of lead acquisition. The key to the effectiveness of this approach resides in building the organic side first.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

But I start most conversations with “wantrepreneurs&# by saying, “make sure it’s in your personality type, make sure you have the risk appetite, make sure you can afford to take the risks given your life situations and make sure you know that there is a high possibility your startup won’t be hugely financially rewarding.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

With standard conversions, people receive value immediately. When we intentionally or unintentionally hurt our relationship partners, we apologize.” ( Estrada-Hollenbeck & Heatherton, 1998 ). Given the difficulty with prosocial conversions, always provide some type of reward to potential donors. Crowdfunding is painful.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 17, 2011

Bonus: Group Text Don’t forget about the wave of group text services that are cropping up as a great way to communicate with your staff, customers, partners and suppliers. The key feature these services offer is that the group text becomes a conversation for all and most allow you to go beyond to text and add images (MMS).

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 13, 2011

Free Weekly Marketing eNewsletter Years Worth of Posts Here Select Month July 2011 June 2011 May 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 January 2010 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 (..)

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 10, 2011

A word of caution is in order here: You can’t use this approach unless a) you really believe that partner is best of class and you would refer them to your best clients and b) you have something to offer that partner that is truly referral worthy. Related Posts: Are There Holes In Your Network? 5 Steps to Successful Fac.

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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. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2011

The Picture Perfect Ideal Customer Filling the Gap Between Generation and Conversion Finding Your Ideal Client Posted by : John Jantsch on Jun 27, 2011 | 6:55 am Category : Marketing Strategy Tag : ideal client Popular Posts Adding the Facebook Like. Does this have some truth for you? Note: There have been some updates since I published th.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 21, 2011

While most businesses use a marketing model that tends to lean heavy on the desire to go from know us to buy from us, any business that fills each of these seven touchpoints will be well on their way to finding and keeping customers that become part of the lead generation and conversion team.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 30, 2011

I had a great conversation recently with Derek Sivers , founder of CDBaby and author of Anything You Want. jepoirrier via Flickr It’s not that the owner’s thinking is flawed, it’s that most of knowledge, mission, vision and basic how to do stuff stays locked up there.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 13, 2011

The entire post in question can be read below) What I’m suggesting mostly is that it’s not that giving away free content or hosting free online seminars is a bad thing.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 25, 2011

You should also add a series of routine systems and tools to all of your campaigns, calls to action and Web pages as striking the right balance of elements, colors, words, and images can send your conversion rates soaring with very time and money invested. Below are some tools to consider adding to your arsenal. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

He is currently a founding partner at Ninety Five 5 (Less Nonsense – More Sales). 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.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2011

Shift the conversation to places where the competition can’t—or won’t—go. Some of my favorite strategic approaches from the book include: Win in the last three feet. Leverage someone else’s investment—just be there the moment the customer grabs their wallet. Create “thin ice” arguments. Fight unfairly.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

Keith Ferrazzi Keith Ferrazzi is the author of Never Eat Alone and the founder of the Relationship Masters Academy, an online training program for networking that offers the structure and support to put Keith’s bestselling books into action in your life for unparalleled career success and satisfaction. Go here to learn more !

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

They are not salespeople and find the whole conversion process a little daunting. 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. If that sounds like you, fear not, (literally.)

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 28, 2011

Start looking for ways to create and document a marketing system that you can teach others to run and remove yourself from the lead generation and conversion game. If a potential buyer can see how they too could operate your marketing system, even after you the owner is long gone, you’ll build value.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

How do you feel like this book will bring structure to the conversation? [19:32] John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Content Is Profit hosted by Louis and Fonzi Kame, brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network. 17:12] Part two talks about story building and story structure.

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