A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

The black horizontal line represents time and the unlabeled vertical access represents relative profit. Your company spends money on sales and marketing to acquire new customers (aka – new logos). The nuance comes in deciding what to include in sales and marketing costs. Now let’s cover those nuances I mentioned.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2012

There is great opportunity here for a wide gamut of services, including peer to peer hosting, mobile sales training , and location-based marketing. Launched in 2005, this vibrant online marketplace routinely garners several hundred million in annual sales. Indoor vertical farming. DIY Creativity. Urban Farming.

Portland 205

Portland Entrepreneur Social Media Vertical 205

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

I truly believe this is the year where quantum dots make a name for themselves in agriculture, and so its about marketing, sales, manufacturing, and generally about traction in the market. We can make green, yellow, orange, red, and everything in between, simply by changing the size of these particles.

Technical Review 54

Technical Review Startup Harvest .Net 54

Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

Since the training department was part of sales no one really paid attention to the four of us. It was a Friday (about ¾’s through my work week) and I was in a sales department meeting. The VP of Sales gave me a funny look and just moved on with the agenda. VP of Sales? Repeat every day, six or seven days a week.

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Silicon Valley Chad RSS San Francisco 184

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

She worked as a sales clerk at a fashion company called Celine. I still remember it – she used to shop at those kinds of places, and she had to become a sales clerk. The way that Travis had set up Uber was a kind of vertical stack, very loosely coupled efforts, and any GM was essentially the CEO of their own city.

Iran 39

Iran Technical Review Non-Compete Lean 39

ConversionXL

MARCH 9, 2016

Typically, when people think of false bottoms, they think of vertical scrolling. The result is less qualified leads and fewer sales. Since vertical scrolling is more familiar to most people, let’s start there. Especially long sales pages, but make sure the arrow is always visible. via Chartbeat). Image Source.

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Cost Vertical Portfolio Design 48

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Understanding what your audience is searching for is key to anticipating your customer’s needs and increasing sales both online and offline. This way you can then prepare special offers to increase potential sales after a sustainable warm-up. All the building blocks of effective search engine optimization (SEO).

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eCommerce SEO Search Engineer 103

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2018

The grocery industry brings in over $680 billion in sales every year. The packaging typically varies to help consumers identify a sugary kid’s drink from a healthy green blend. reported that Tropicana’s sales dropped by 20% immediately following their brand relaunch. Today, they carry up to 50,000. Consumers become frustrated.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Previously, I did very well in sales in a more solitary environment where I counted on my strengths alone to succeed. We bootstrapped this venture, so while there aren’t many perks, being able to go from a white board to a green golf course in 10 minutes is a bonus. What has the startup experience taught you about life?

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

VMware—Diane Greene. (*) While not technically cofounders, Andy Grove and Thomas Watson, Sr. Jobs not only killed all the commodity hardware and the horizontal strategy; he went radically vertical. In the 80s, the invention of the CD completely revitalized the industry and led to (literally) record-breaking sales.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 78

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. The biggest lost opportunity of all, though, is this one: we no longer need to rely on scarcity or status-oriented measures to filter which projects should get the green light. Is that a lot? Is that good?

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San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

According to a study examining the effect of color on sales, 92.6% Horizontal vs vertical vs diagonal lines. Unlike vertical or diagonal lines, they look as though gravity has already acted upon them and there is nowhere for them to fall. Vertical lines run perpendicular to the horizon. Vertical lines draw the eye upward.

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Marketing Charlotte Naming Design 162

pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

Ultimately, we each had a lot of domain experience in different content verticals and wanted to build the ultimate places we could work every day putting that experience to work. and only raw and green raw recruits will run towards machine gun fire. “It’s hard to create a company like this as a kid,” he says.

Entrepreneur 45

Entrepreneur San Francisco Silicon Valley Technical Review 45

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

However, enough on digital, so Sarah, please stop with the positive news- where will VC go to invest outside of net negative or zero ROI on green? The cost of money is steep, and only works in certain verticals, of which software is NOT one. you are right about link sale forum not having good quality links. hmmm- Amazon S3=?

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Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Getty is the fourth green line. This is what it looks like, for our website and our images category leader… You can notice big differences in acquisition strategy right away – from the size of the boxes, and from, for example, seeing that Web Portals and Search is darker green (more growth) for Shutterstock than for us.

Metrics 60

Metrics Analytics Non-Compete Search 60

news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

We already have some competitors in the vertical and while there is no point in trying to hide the actual idea, there are differences in the way we implement stuff that can get us an advantage over the competition. >> There are some other serious reasons why we dont want to go public right now.

Stealth 41

Stealth Technical Review Startup Software Review 41

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 6, 2018

About 80–90% of smartphone use occurs in portrait orientation, which makes width a precious commodity: There’s more vertical space, and vertical scrolling is more intuitive. That gap in time-to-completion is almost certainly greater on mobile devices, which prioritize vertical scrolling. Aspect ratio. Multi-step forms.

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Mobile Conversion Vertical API 116

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Its power is in the what : how many sales, how much traffic, how often actions are taken, etc. Do these customers interact with the same sales rep? If you want to show differences in proportions between groups, a horizontal or vertical bar chart is the easiest way to do it. Data is a critical contributor to growth. Line charts.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 3, 2014

To be fair than Jakob Nielsen , the father of F pattern reading, said at the time when he came out with his findings that: “Eyetracking visualizations show that users often read Web pages in an F-shaped pattern: two horizontal stripes followed by a vertical stripe.”. Green ones showed the best lift. image source. image source.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

It’s like arguing against vertical software. You use marketing and sales language, when attempting to make technical points. ” “I opened the security screen and all the lights are green, so I don’t know how the firewall got penetrated.” March 26, 2011 at 9:02 am.

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