Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Fast forward 20+ years and Netflix has become one of the biggest TV and movie studios in the world, with more subscribers than all the cable TV channels in America combined! When this platform launched in 2008, they were practically were laughed at and couldn’t find investors. Thanks to Bruce Harpham. #3- Photo Credit: Donny Gamble.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

Through comment conversations with many of you I tried to emphasize that it isn’t enough to just have one attribute. He was from South America but living in Switzerland and had launched a startup while holding down a day job at a consulting firm (McKinsey if memory serves). You need the whole package. He wanted to raise angel money.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

This conversation was recorded before the announcement of Ron's new position in the incoming Biden administration. In our conversation, I ask Ron point blank if the outcome we are living through was inevitable, or could we have avoided this catastrophe? Here's my conversation with Ron Klain. You're not going to like his answer.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

State of Independence in America. Media Fragmentation and the Growth of Small Publishers » April 07, 2008. Posted by Steve on April 07, 2008 at 12:57 AM | Permalink. You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post. Posted by: Post Work | April 09, 2008 at 07:57 AM.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

I call this the “party conversation trick”. He got his start in digital marketing in 2008 while in the real estate industry, and started his first online store selling masquerade masks from Italy (he quit his real estate job a few months later). I know that litterboxes suck, which is why we’re designing a new litter box.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

I want to be able to backpack through Central America for 3 months when I feel like it. It was several years later when I identified this as ‘driving conversions’ , which is what I specialize in today ). That was 2008. I literally took a pen and a paper and wrote down what I want my life to look like. I was wrong.<

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Brandanew

AUGUST 14, 2016

It was in 2008 that my childhood friend introduced me to his then girl-friend. He was also intrigued at the fact that a economically developed Country such as the United States of America, still did not cater to every economical bracket when it came to home furnishings and décor. I am going to quickly introduce who we will meet today.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 9, 2017

From running around Manhattan in 2008 selling to restaurants while the world economy was in tatters, to the first hire of a startup based out of Estonia, to my current role in Austin, Texas it sure has been a windy road. The best experiences are the ones you have no expectations for. They are also typically more memorable and genuine.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

I asked him what motivated him and he told me, “I started it in 2008 as a project with my daughter helping canvass for Obama. Jacob will grow up knowing that anything is possible in America if we preserve our democracy and learn to govern together. Souza snapped. “So, So, what do you think?” Mr. Obama asked. That says it all.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 22, 2017

Conversely, don’t be afraid to take firm action with persistent late payers, who could collapse your company. In fact, according to a study by Dutch firm Atradius , who surveyed the Americas on invoice payment behavior, 38.4 Atradius concluded that on average, businesses in the Americas lose 51.9 Consider changing suppliers.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 28, 2014

While these events all attract overworked techies seeking an unplugged respite, good conversation and a hard, exfoliating brush with nature, Kalu Yalu is set to define itself as something different. Stice purchased the land in 2008, and accepted his last investment check in 2010. But change isn’t happening fast.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 21, 2017

10 – It’s much easier to double your business by doubling your conversion rate than doubling your traffic. It’s much easier to double your business by doubling your conversion rate than doubling your traffic. It was March 2008. Thanks to Harshit Jain, Hobbiesphere ! #10 Image Credit: Lauren Pawell.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

For example, in Hello, I’m 1074018628 , a little ditty from 2008, I copied Seth Godin’s style. He has no need for the typical coda wherein the author transforms into a beggar, directing your attention to the “conversation” to be joined in the comments. Rather, I tried to copy style. It’s 160 words.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, March 6, 2010 Startup Visa update As I write this, I am traveling at 30,000 feet on Virgin Americas excellent IAD->SFO nonstop, following an intense few days of conversations in Washington, DC about the Startup Visa.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2018

I hope you’ll enjoy the conversation as much as I did. This was in 1993, and I was the chief marketing officer at Frito-Lay North America. GE Money ended up being significantly scaled back during the recession in 2008, and as that was happening I met with Beth Comstock, who was the CMO at that time.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Mark Cuban added that he thought that the price points were too high for middle-America, and that a business that reflected so much of the founders personality would be hard to scale. It is incredibly expensive money, and as O’Leary said, it is a confirmation that many banks are not currently lending to small business in America.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 27, 2020

So if Tesla didn’t come onto the scene in 2008 with a real, compelling reason to exist (create the world’s best electric vehicle and make it fun to drive and stunning to look at) it would never have a chance to compete with established incumbents. What is being said right now by your customers in their conversations?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

The conversations usually go down the same path, ending with a you’re how old? I started a career in real estate in 2008 (when the market was crashing). At the same time it seemed that whenever I would have a conversation with a friend, family member, colleague, manager, executive–you name it!–about

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

As well as having one of the world’s most popular marketing blogs , he has also contributed to programs on The BBC and ITV in the UK as well as CBS in North America. . Jim Connolly Jim Connolly specializes in helping small businesses to make massively more sales and boost their profits, through common sense marketing.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

As well as having one of the world’s most popular marketing blogs , he has also contributed to programs on The BBC and ITV in the UK as well as CBS in North America. They are not salespeople and find the whole conversion process a little daunting. If that sounds like you, fear not, (literally.)

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2018

In 2008, I moved to Austin, Texas and transferred to The Junior League of Austin. Looking like every woman who wins a Miss America crown, I told him I made the board. I thought to myself, “Are you kidding me?” Lafayette has about 500 women in its league. Add 2000 more and that’s the size of the Austin roster.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Ted Serbinski: Angel investor Ted Serbinski sold his startup MothersClick to Lifetime in 2008 and joined the cable network as CTO of the ParentsClick Network. Passion was certainly a recurring topic of conversation amongst the investors we interviewed. Code for America Chooses 20 Developer. View More » Apple iOS 4.2

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 2, 2018

During our conversation, I referred the student to my original Lucky7 post on the right way to ask for help?—?and I wrote this letter to our clients in October of 2008. So in America, 1776 is in our DNA. But I digress. and why people will answer your call when you do. much larger and more established businesses?—?were

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

He was raising money initially in the worst market in a decade (we met in 2008), he’s in his mid-40′s, is doing a mom’s site (he has no kids) and he has a JewFro. Might as well cut off our conversation and just restart it 48 hours later on camera for This Week in VC. We talk about all of this in the video.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Corporate America could learn from this. I was about to become the first person in America to sell condom key chains. If I tell someone I’m the mayor of a spot, I’m in an instant conversation: “What makes you the mayor?” We were amazed by the candor and generosity of many of the writers of these post-mortems. Company : Wesabe.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 12, 2020

In the second half of my conversation with Brian Chesky, we moved on from the pre-pandemic world and how he and Airbnb were coping with our rapidly changing reality. You can listen to our conversation on Apple podcasts , Google podcasts , or wherever you like to download. And in some of these conversations, we've talked about why.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Beyond just those who will be hearing about the lean startup for the first time, Im expecting to shake a lot of hands and have a lot of interesting side conversations. Its impossible to resist the urge to plug Virgin America as much as possible. Thanks to on-board wifi, you can join me in that thought process, if youd like.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 18, 2010

So it was with absolute delight that I wrote a detailed post about the release of Advanced Segmentation feature in Google Analytics in Oct 2008: Google Analytics Releases Advanced Segmentation: Now Be A Ninja! How many people could we get to convert (replace total goal completions with conversion rate if you want). Of course Yahoo!

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www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home About Contact Home About Contact The Metamorphosis Becoming an Entrepreneur, by Matt Mireles Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder I started SpeakerText in October 2008 during the financial apocalypse. You can call up America’s leading legal luminaries and get an hour of their time for free, every time. No one funded us.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

In the middle of a serious conversation on the joys of motherhood or the stress of a career you might realize that the person you’re talking to is only 15. But to your point, you can't even have a conversation with them, they have made their decisions and moved on. But it also has some drawbacks. IMVU is one great tornado.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

The great thing about this strategy is you already have a conversion mechanism. Improve conversions. Just do some basic conversion improvement. He went through the copy, went through the emails, and improved the conversion on each of the key points, and doubled and then tripled the return he got from that.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

MATIMOP helps implement a variety of bi-national and multi-national industrial R&D programs between Israeli and foreign enterprises from Europe, Asia, Oceania, North America and Latin America. Screenovate’s first product is the Smart TV – a carrier branded alternative to Google / Apple TV.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 2, 2015

.” There was a point in time I was at a weekend-long conference, and I got on the plane and was having a conversation with my wife. ” It really caused me to pull back for a minute and realize, “Yeah, I just keep using these jargon-y words that mean nothing when you’re having a normal conversation with another person.”

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Conversely, plenty of folks who write code in more “acceptable” languages/platforms are lazy bastards who have no concept of the underlying complexities of their chosen tools. Working for or started something in 2008 that may or may not make it. March 26, 2011 at 9:18 pm. Do I prefer to program in Python?

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