YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

An IBM study in 2011, “ From Social Media to Social CRM ”, discovered significant gaps between what businesses think consumers care about and what consumers say they want from their social media interactions with companies. What was still missing was a simple way to identify a customer at the point of sale. That was a decade ago.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. June 5, 2011. Filing Date: initial filing June 2, 2011. Run Rate Revenue: $2.6B (Q1 2011 annualized). Revenue Growth: 2241% YoY (2010 vs 2009), 1357% YOY (Q1 2011 vs Q1 2010). Run Rate Gross Profit: $1.1B (Q1 2011 annualized). How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. I make the most of this time by listening to my favorite tech and venture podcasts. sales and marketing. (10). ► 2011. (2). In search of Europe's next tech stars. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Thursday, December 28, 2006.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

After the product’s developed, the startup employes marketing to get attention, Sales to close deals, and perhaps a Director of Customer Service to field customer issues. The Concierge stage is about delivering the product promised in The Pitch, to a few customers with as little technology as possible. Phase 3 – Concierge.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Technology | Thursdays. Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. SALES & MARKETING. TECHNOLOGY. Technology. The 2011 Inc. The 2011 Top Lists. Why Arizona Bay started taking stock from its customers instead of cash. Create an Inc.com account: Subscribe to Inc.coms Free Newsletters. Start-up | Mondays.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Marketing Sales & Marketing Home Marketing Basics Sales Online Marketing Finding Customers Social Media Branding Social Media Does Your Companys Social Personality Need a Makeover? Technology Technology Home Online Business Tools Security Phones & Mobile Gadgets Tech Tips Technology The Future of Facebook -- Streaming Live Now.

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Startup Company Lawyer

AUGUST 31, 2012

” As a result, Ted introduced the Series Seed preferred stock documents as an alternative to convertible debt for early stage investments. As a result of this risk, some people like Adeo Ressi, have declared that 2011 will be the “ year of the startup default.” The problem. The solution.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Another telling example, is when back in 2011 eBay acquired a 2-year-old recommendation engine startup , Hunch for $80 million. This means that personalization and related technologies left the “nice to have” category for good. Nowadays, employing such techniques is downright a prerequisite of doing business online successfully.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing productivity. However, if the SaaS & Cloud computing industry is doing relatively well in this downturn, the recession has severely impacted the sales&marketing productivity of these companies, with longer sales cycle, smaller deal size and limited upsells opportunity.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

It is intriguing to see the M&A dynamics in the space, highlighting the interest of tech companies for recurring revenue streams - even SAP announced in their analyst call earlier this month that they were moving from perpertual licenses to five year term licences. The stock was very well received, jumping 25% on its first day of trading.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

As a result, most models are used as a rough guide to see if you are “in the ball park,” or to see if a particular stock is either wildly under-valued or over-valued. What Professor Damodaran thinks, or what anyone who is not a buyer or seller of stocks thinks, is fairly immaterial. So here is the objective of this post.

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www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Locks in rights, preferences and priviledges of the stock. In reviewing these documents on the term sheet, last item, how is the term "double trigger" defined. This is all built into a typical founder stock purchase agreement. Technical issues are fixed for Firefox users (thanks Rob for the comment).

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 6, 2016

Society’s concern with data and privacy (or the lack thereof) has been brought to the forefront due to the FBI-Apple controversy. Target not only spent $240 million to replace customers’ cards, but sales and the company’s stock price took a major hit from the resulting public fallout. Resources for small businesses.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

It also assumes the entire value of the investment is captured for investors at a sale of the company in the time specified in the term-sheet. This results in a range of sale prices; in this example from $118.6MM to $21MM.   Say I invest $1MM in a company and receive 40% of the stock. Let’s start at the end.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a recent survey published on HubSpot, it was found that companies who put data at the core of their marketing/sales decisions improve marketing ROI by 15%-20%. In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. image source. image source.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a recent survey published on HubSpot, it was found that companies who put data at the core of their marketing/sales decisions improve marketing ROI by 15%-20%. In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. image source. image source.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a recent survey published on HubSpot, it was found that companies who put data at the core of their marketing/sales decisions improve marketing ROI by 15%-20%. In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. image source. image source.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a recent survey published on HubSpot, it was found that companies who put data at the core of their marketing/sales decisions improve marketing ROI by 15%-20%. In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. image source. image source.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

hurry up, the retailers are out of stock! sales and marketing. (10). ► 2011. (2). In search of Europe's next tech stars. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. My Yelp reviews.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

In 2011, it accounted for approximately $2.3 billion in total industry sales. To find out what people are complaining about, read forums, turn to your social media accounts, and read reviews. Drop into a store that you think would be a great candidate for stocking your product in the future. Today it is even larger.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

If a consultant claims they can enhance your marketing efforts, pay them based on their direct impact on your incremental sales. Such positions include: PR, Sales, Product Development, Lead Generation, Strategic Planning, Fund Raising, etc. Passion Cannot be Outsourced. Pyramid Power. The larger the firm, the larger the pyramid.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 6, 2012

When you had physical stores selling books, the bookseller would have to stock the shelves with those books most likely to sell so consumer choice was more limited. In 2011 YouTube had 1 trillion views, which is the equivalent of every human watching 140 videos. It was by definition a hits-driven business. Revenue models are emerging.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

I’ve had the opportunity to work with many impressive teams and product managers from a broad range of leading tech companies, and this has helped me to get a better sense of the what is essential to the role, and to success. Even worse, DVD sales were starting to lag, and a Hollywood backlash further muddied the situation.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 23, 2019

What if it’s harder to close sales or generate leads? Price Intelligently recommends one to two price changes each year : The companies we’ve seen with the most success with revenue and adoption are reviewing pricing at least once per quarter and making tweaks or changes every 6 to 9 months. Image source ). Six months have passed.

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ConversionXL

JULY 24, 2014

Lattice has researched how leading companies like Amazon & Netflix are using predictive analytics to better understand customer behavior, in order to develop a solution that helps sales professionals better qualify their leads. Inventory Management – Stay Properly Stocked & Reduce Overstock. image source.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Virtual Stock Exchange. Technology. This service is temporary unavailable due to system maintenance. Loading… Tech. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. Stock Quotes. more in Tech. Financial News. WSJ Classifieds. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. View All Search Results » |.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I have the knowledge in tech to implement it. If you’re looking for technical talent – go to the dev meetups. Do that – nothing else but one product / company / focus and get to $1M in sales with atleast $15% net profit. I think it’s a huge mistake to outsource technology as a startup. I also like to get a sale $$$ ASAP.

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philipsmith.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Compensation-wise the biggest challenge is insuring people are respectful of my time and skills (when they don't write real checks for hourly or project work they don't tend to be quite as diligent on this as one would like!). Don't be paying yourself or others a decent salary and then expect someone else just to work for stock.

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conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

After the product’s developed, the startup employes marketing to get attention, Sales to close deals, and perhaps a Director of Customer Service to field customer issues. The Concierge stage is about delivering the product promised in The Pitch, to a few customers with as little technology as possible. Phase 3 – Concierge.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Virtual Stock Exchange. Loading… Tech. Stock Quotes. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart. Mossberg Reviews the iPhone 5. AllThingsDigital. AllThingsDigital. Financial News.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Let’s review all of our existing investments. So when the market started showing good signs (iPhone, Facebook, Zynga, Twitter, stock market growth) it was happy days again. Risks of these two factors to the stock market. Stock market declines would bring back dog days of VC. August 2011. Cut where needed.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 12, 2017

He was one of the founders of a conference called Local You and now is a co-founder of getfivestarts.com a review service that helps local businesses. And I think that from a technical feature point of view this Google post will become the face of Google local. So Mike, thanks for joining me. Mike: Sure.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

March 25, 2011 at 7:00 am. March 25, 2011 at 12:58 pm. March 25, 2011 at 12:59 pm. March 25, 2011 at 1:04 pm. March 25, 2011 at 1:12 pm. March 25, 2011 at 1:13 pm. March 25, 2011 at 1:29 pm. March 25, 2011 at 1:34 pm. Guess which technology we have the least trouble with. Very good post.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 10, 2007

Apparently not if you trust the stock market. You can listen to compressed audio without noticing it a lot, but video is a different game, especially with surging sales of high def. sales and marketing. (10). ► 2011. (2). In search of Europe's next tech stars. Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

He should have invested in Lawson obviously… I could not track back their stock price in 1998 when NetSuite was launched, but since Jan. 2002, the stock price went from $17.5 sales and marketing. (10). ► 2011. (2). In search of Europe's next tech stars. Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My original thinking from Oct ’09 was, while I didn’t (and still don’t) have a crystal ball I worried that: consumers were over-stretched with debt (and make up 77% of the economy), unemployment would continue to rise, which in turn would drive the stock market south and cut the rate of M&A activity and VC investment even further.

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