Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

He is a current member of the California State Bar, and the Hollywood Writers Guild. A former partner in two leading Los Angeles media law firms, Lee holds a J.D. from the UCLA School of Law where he also served as Chief Comment Editor of the UCLA Law Review, and earned his B.A. in History from UCLA.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

SuperMac sold our graphic boards for the Macintosh through multiple distribution channels: direct sales to major accounts, national chains, independent rep firms, etc. But the computer retail channel was a large part of our sales. As a pay-per-click marketer, now I will look at retail packaging as a source of ideas on landing page design.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

million people EMPLOYED in California. Food production and distribution, group collaboration, remote training or education, sensor technology (tracking people movement, temperatures, etc), certain biotech deals. The reality is that when unemployment sinks in demand is likely to get worse. 22 million filed in just 4 weeks?—?for

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 15, 2010

Can you please expand on your post about distributed teams? It was a verbal discussion on my post on distributed teams. - A good compromise is “convertible debt with a cap&# meaning the conversion price has a limit. Yes, that was the value that we actually returned as opposed to the value of Ulta. Great exit. -

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Austin has been one the fastest growing cities in the country for the past 20 years that I’ve been here, but it feels like COVID-19 and California wildfires broke the floodgates already under pressure from high taxes and expensive real estate in landlocked coastal cities. He’s also on the board of the Planetary Society and the Arch Mission.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

I’m a business owner based out of Southern California. In September, our state governor signed an executive order that requires all new passenger vehicles sold in California to be zero-emission by 2035. We can predict that going forward, no conversation will ever get lost in translation. Photo Credit: Deborah Sweeney.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

and Union College found that what they label the “c factor” (another term for collective intelligence) is correlated with “the average social sensitivity of group members, the equality in distribution of conversational turn-taking, and the proportion of females in the group.” Members contributed to conversations equally, and 2.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens. They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email. Almost every VC I’ve spoken with in LA is tracking DataPop. with the clips.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 26, 2014

A municipal utility may be able to provide electricity that is cheaper or about as affordable as our current utility offers – or the city may waste millions of dollars trying, just as communities in Florida , California , and New Mexico have done recently.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

I need to get you into both the Southern California Tech Central and the B2B Marketing Zone. We can extend our clients' reach tremendously, and for low cost, by using the internet and social media to distribute and link to the "assets" we create. Like your idea of the 30-minute phone conversation too. Absolutely.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Are they drawn to Texas or moving away from California? Texas exported more than California and New York combined in 2019. Only California and New York have a few more, and maybe not for long. I expect to see more announcements of big name people and companies moving to Texas every month in 2021. What’s bringing them here?

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 14, 2020

HiHello has a remote team of engineers – in New York, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and California. Several months ago I was having a conversation with my friend and former co-worker @ HiHello, Leith Abdulla , about how I am frustrated with Slack and want a tool that removes the friction for communication with the remote team.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 22, 2017

However, while the culture of California startups has always been to scale first, then monetize; Texas’ startup culture is money first, then scale. The internet became one big opinion section where Google and Facebook made all the money in the distribution, but never helped in the creation or printing.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 26, 2011

As for the presenters, first up, Deborah Walliser from Redding, California, presented Got Produce? Deborah has interest from Whole Foods and some other grocery stores to build such greenhouses near their distribution centers. Freemium conversion rates are usually 4% at the very best, more like 1% to 2% average. Got Produce?

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Service companies are increasingly looking to get into work-for-equity relationships," says Peter Wendell , managing director of the Menlo Park , California -based venture capital firm Sierra Ventures and a faculty member at Stanford Business School. CDW your 1-stop resource for configuration, activation & distribution. Get ahead.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 3, 2012

Conversely, too many companies try to compete by imitating their competitors. As an example, I pretty much love all the beers created by Lagunitas Brewing Company in Petaluma, California. Specifically, the winning companies will craft a focused strategy that gives them a distinctive advantage. have no direct competition?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Some of the conversations went like this: Startup 1 Entrepreneur -“I’m competing against Company x and have been following the Customer Development process and I’ve talked to lots of customers.” Do you know have they distribute their product? Me – “Have you used Company x’s product? Do you know how they create demand?

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2012

She was selling her product at farmers markets and had made only $60,000 in sales over the last 12 months as a sole proprietor, although she had recently secured distribution in two local Whole Foods stores. Through further conversation it turned out that the 200 units were sold 6 months ago and the company had not sold anything since.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 11, 2013

Appsumo is an daily deals website for the coolest web apps and other digitally distributed goods. This is what they say about themselves: We are an distribution channel for companies that help entrepreneurs start, grow, optimize, and scale their businesses. 31% referral conversion rate. Total Conversion: 41.19%.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 26, 2019

The contract company would handle the other business aspects such as distribution, marketing, and sales. Alcohol production, distribution, and sales are all heavily shaped by laws. The current laws governing alcohol production, distribution, and sales evolved in the wake of the Prohibition era. Get to know the legal stuff.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

You can listen to our conversation on Apple , Google, or wherever you like to download podcasts. Here's my conversation with Sal Khan. I remember really vividly maybe in the first week of the Shelter in Place Order, I think even before the schools had officially closed, we had a conversation. Sal Khan : My name is Sal Khan.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

You can listen to our conversation on Apple , Google, or wherever you like to download podcasts. In this conversation, you're going to get to hear from someone who's really doing it. By now, the new company they formed called The Curative has performed something like 20% of all COVID tests in the state of California.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Lowering/increasing the cost of engineering personnel doesn’t affect this model (although the trend over the last two decades has been to dramatically lower the cost of developing a software product: open source libraries, Moore’s Law, Internet distribution/SaaS are three big drivers).

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

According to reported data, more business decision makers, people with household incomes exceeding $100,000, and college and postgraduates are LinkedIn users than the physical distribution audience of the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times. On LinkedIn, it’s sometimes best for your stated location not to match your physical one.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

Outcomes: Revenue | Ideas Funded Behavior: Path Length | Cart Abandonment Rate Acquisition: Assisted Conversions | Share of Search. No respected ecommerce entity can live without a hard core focus on acquisition strategies that are powered by out-of-sights from Assisted Conversions data. I love governments!

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Scott Edward Walker

MAY 15, 2012

What Happens If a Startup is Acquired Prior to the Note’s Conversion to Shares of Preferred Stock? One of the tricky issues that founders must address in the note is what happens if their startup is acquired prior to the note’s conversion (and prior to the note’s maturity date, as discussed below). 3) Premium (Intermediate Approach).

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 3, 2020

” And I said, “Oh, I’m already familiar with John’s stuff, but he’s great and I’m glad you were able to connect in San Diego or in California for an event.” To go a little deeper, I was speaking of the email founder of a certain company a year ago and we had a really big conversation around email.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

Sean Seton-Rogers, Partner, Profounders Capital, breaks the conversation into three areas: Control: voting/veto for new deals, share of management company. – Tax distributions. VC and private equity are very illiquid on both the investing and the personnel side. So assessing fit is critical. – Share and vesting of Carry.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

In our conversation, we talked about the history and difficulties of school nutrition before the pandemic, scaling a company while having a young family, what's changed at Revolution Foods since March, and how investors and partners have supported and helped expand the company. Here's my conversation with the founders of Revolution Foods.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Among other things they conducted 240 A/B tests that resulted in a 49% increase in donation conversion (that was more than $80 million extra cash). Research shows that marketers are spending pennies on their conversion efforts. Just waste all that effort and money – only because their website is not optimized for conversions.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

Security Choice: The Power of Conversion Through Transparency. ", and the page is exactly the same for me in California or someone in London? They also make it clear they only serve California, rather than telling you after you click the Submit button! Shopbop: (Luxury) Ecommerce and Branding Done Right! I love this.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Some businesses can service all four cities with a single distribution hub in one of the cities, making it a unique market for launching new businesses. Texas exports more than California and New York combined. Only California and New York have more. These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

The breakdown: “Capturing conversation outside brand-owned channels is not a perfect science, but at the moment, Radian6 is leading the pack. It will allow us to track conversations about our brands and campaigns, spot trends in core content areas and identify key influencers that are connected to our brands.” Distribution.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 20, 2010

Does the distribution match your goals? If you truly want to kick it up a notch as a SEO please please please go to the Goal and Ecommerce / Conversions reports and apply your organic segment, stretch the time period, and report (aggressively) how well your SEO efforts are delivering value to the business. Start a conversation.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

October 2012 – Erin Turner and Gagan Biyani host the first Growth Hackers Conference in Menlo Park, California. So, it’s not surprising that a commonly asked question for optimizers is: What is the overlap between growth hacking and conversion rate optimization? via TechCrunch). They can be applied at every stage.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

I Hate Business Plan Competitions Yet this same conversation reminded me why every time students at Berkeley or Stanford tell me they’ve entered a technology business plan competition, I question whether they are wasting their time. I now think that was a mistake. You’ll learn a lot.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

What if, as you’re getting ready to harvest your first batch, you then find out that all the demand for passion fruit is centered in Southern California, and not in Miami like you thought? You would then have been able to choose to grow another product that was in demand, or start your farm in Southern California.

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