View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

And early-stage VC investors have increasingly ventured beyond their backyards of SF, NYC, and Boston to more actively invest in (and in some cases relocate to) places like Miami, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

If you look at Amazon’s head office building in Seattle, Washington State, you’ll notice something – it just looks like a generic, boring corporate office. It is not a company that cares deeply about morale among employees – all it cares about is the customer. All top companies offer their employees showers.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

And early-stage VC investors have increasingly ventured beyond their backyards of SF, NYC, and Boston to more actively invest in (and in some cases relocate to) places like Miami, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m in Seattle this week. Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. As I gear up to give a keynote at the annual Seattle 2.0 awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

And early-stage VC investors have increasingly ventured beyond their backyards of SF, NYC, and Boston to more actively invest in (and in some cases relocate to) places like Miami, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

A little company in Seattle called Microsoft. When they did their first partnership with IBM, they had just 32 employees. This move effectively limits China’s access to a critical resource- the custom chips that are vital to products that fuel China’s domestic and export growth. They were running out of cash.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2018

While spending years in a big company as an employee and an executive, I heard many people talking about jumping the corporate ship, dreaming of being an entrepreneur, and totally in charge of their own destiny. Focus on customer value in every job. Already have dependents and employees who look up to you.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Some revolutionary companies, like Basecamp (formerly 37Signals) had their best growth without any offices, and with employees mostly working remotely, as documented in the book “ Remote: Office Not Required “ Here’s where we get to the fun part. That’s what keeps employees positive, efficient, and the company competitive.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

At 24 I was putting myself through college and running the creative services department at an energy systems engineering firm in Seattle when the company was purchased by a French firm. Increased productivity means increased profits allowing manufacturers to pay higher wages and attract the best employees. Photo Credit: Andrea Heuston.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

Whether you pull off unique marketing stunts, have products which need no introduction or style yourself as an innovative CEO, having a defining quality is what customers will notice. #1 Working at a mighty mid-sized agency provides employees the unique opportunity to grow within their positions and assume leadership roles.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

That prediction obviously turned out pretty wrong, but it did drum up a whole lot of chatter about the right ingredients for building a startup community—about New York vs Boston on the East Coast and whether cities like Austin and Seattle would ever break through. This is where you’ll find the most experienced, most ambitious, top employees.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Seattle, WA. With Local Services, you have the ability to advertise your business on Google and receive leads directly from potential customers. It’s still your job to turn them into customers. Limited wasted time, as customers choose you (no chasing). Increased odds of turning more leads into customers.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

WeGoLook began as a type of social entrepreneurship by creating a valuable service that is available to customers around the entire world, providing career paths to over 110 employees and supplemental income to over 30,000 nationwide agents (Lookers). Image Credit: Seattle Sutton. Thanks to Seattle Sutton ! #8

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Version One Ventures

JULY 14, 2014

Can upstart ecosystems in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, or Seattle churn out tomorrow’s billion dollar tech companies? It’s relatively easy for a company to scale to 20-25 employees in Seattle, but when a start-up is ready to find its first VP of Sales or Marketing, it often needs to look beyond the local area.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 4, 2017

If you think you might be paying too much for your service and don’t feel like dealing with Comcast’s customer service, let Trim’s robot give it a shot. Geekwire named Outreach one of the top 10 transformational Seattle startups , and Top Hat got some great press from the Globe and Mail and Financial Post for its success in the Edtech market.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 15, 2019

Anyone whose work touches customers should know and feel your brand. In your case, what ritual might immerse employees in your brand? Customers seek you out. They spread the word and attract new customers. Your profits soar, and customers love you for making good on your word. Trader Joe’s. They become loyal.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Nudge is a fast pace, but still insightful with real world examples that you can apply her recent issue, talked about the, the idea of getting your customers, your prospects, in the habit of buying from you, or listening to you or following you. You have to balance that because without restaurants you kinda ha not gonna have customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

They hire their initial co-founders and early employees and everybody has a sense of “mission.” A great leader knows customers and has direct relationships with them. He seemed to never care about fans (customers) who also were happy to let the door hit his butt on the way out. A Sense of Purpose. Team Building.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

But I know when we enter the real world, A, that’s not everybody, and then B, we have work to do, results to get, clients or customers to serve. Klaviyo helps you build meaningful customer relationships by listening and understanding queues from your customers. It’s embedded in this idea of like the mystical muse.

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adamac.blogspot.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Adam MacBeth Tuesday, April 07, 2009 10 Startup Red Flags Ive worked on a number of startups: from seed-stage through IPO, as a founder, employee, advisor, and consultant, as well as evaluating a bunch from the outside, so Ive seen my share of screw-ups. Startups require resourcefulness and a rolodex of enterprise customers isnt enough.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

The prevailing view of senior startup execs was that trying to build a company in SF would be too distracting for employees, and frankly most startup employees at the time preferred to live in the suburban areas of the peninsula rather than in the city. Thanks Chris, good read and hadn’t seen it before. link] Matthew Tagg.

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Up and Running

APRIL 22, 2019

Pricing models and customer acquisition. So instead of paying once for a lifetime of use, your customer pays on an ongoing basis—usually monthly or annually. It’s a popular model because of the increased potential lifetime value of each customer. SaaS products often use a subscription-based pricing model. Starting with an MVP.

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Up and Running

APRIL 19, 2016

If you don’t have buy-in from your partners, your employees, and your customers, you just went through a whole lot of something for a whole lot of nothing. Tip #2: Include your employees. The best rebrands come from the bottom up and get all employees involved. Tip #3: Get your customers involved. Then Lead Them.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2012

Many companies are seeing the benefit of “homesourcing” instead of “outsourcing” because overhead is reduced, and customers get to speak to local operators who understand the language and culture. Merchandising. Have you ever walked up to someone shelving products in a store to ask for help and they reply, “I’m sorry, I don’t work here?”

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Transformify

AUGUST 5, 2019

Her background includes 20 years of HR, customer service and business leadership – an ideal balance of human capital and business perspective. In her current role, MJ works to align the customer and employee experience with PEMCO’s brand aspirations. What are the best D&I practices of PEMCO ? ” Absolutely.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 23, 2018

They can’t rely on existing markets or customer awareness to help generate interest. Customers can be reluctant to try something they don’t understand or they haven’t seen before. It started with a huge amount of hype, nearly 40 employees, and an equally large amount of cash: $41 million. business environment.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 6, 2011

Clearly these two companies are exceptions to the rule, and both have grown dramatically in terms of customers, revenues and footprint in just a few years. In fact, there was a time when I had employees who were graduates of Harvard and were using Facebook, and I wasn't able to use it myself. Just look at Groupon or Facebook.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

No matter how hard you work to improve your social media engagement, online reviews, or customer satisfaction, it can all be undone if you don’t follow these five important offline marketing strategies. #1 The brand experience you sell online should match up with the one which you offer customers in real life.

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Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 25, 2018

Amazon announced they’re going to be creating a second headquarters to rival their current HQ in Seattle, and they issued a gigantic RFP to the nation’s cities to determine which city will give them the best deals and tax incentives be the best for their employees and customers. Well, I’m not.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Our business is located in House District 44 (Mike May), and Senate District 30 (Ted Harvey) and most of our ~15 employees live in these same or surrounding Districts in the South Denver area. Every software project would have to be separated into “standard” (taxable) and “custom” (non-taxable) categories. Citrix Presentation Server 4.0,

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2010

We’ve done this through our seed investments as well as through our activity at TechStars, starting in Boulder, then expanding to Boston, Seattle and New York. By trying more things in a short period of time, they can adopt their product better to the market and their customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

Lenore Estrada : So, for us at the beginning of March, we noticed that orders were really slowing down and I think because I had a personal network that included people who were tech CEOs, who were really the kinds of companies that were my customers, I had access to information about what was happening in a way that I wouldn't otherwise have had.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

The city’s close proximity to major business centers like Seattle and Silicon Valley is another notable benefit, enabling a vibrant flow of talent between cities up and down the west coast. Edmonton also has a number of high-quality post-secondary schools that continually add many highly-skilled employees to the job market.

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

If I honor your NDA, and I meet a great investor or potential employee or valuable partner for your new venture, I wouldnt be able to tell them about it. or Seattle. Perhaps this is because NDAs, like mission statements, are typically drafted around corporate boardrooms and customers are rarely, if ever, asked to ensure it makes sense?

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

By which I meannot that it has to make something physical, but that it has to haveone thing it sells to many people, rather than doing custom workfor individual clients. Custom work doesnt scale. An advantage of consulting, as a way to develop a product, is thatyou know youre making something at least one customer wants.

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Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2015

He was refurbishing classic and custom furniture for a condominium he’d bought for himself in his hometown of Seattle, when he realized he’d accumulated rather a lot of scrap lumber. The first four words in my employee manual are ‘Work smart, not hard.’ See Also What Does It Take to Start a Comic Book Business?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2016

Even some employee engagement and relations activities can come under the heading of public relations when the intent is to improve relationships and the probability exists that the program will impact public perception in some way. Corporate sponsorships.

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