Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Far fetched, but with a balance sheet that is gigantic and the Peloton stock around $38 ($12bln market cap) at the time of this writing, I could see this making a lot of sense. -1: 4/ There is a breakout video game that uses components of Web3 – nobody knows or cares that there are cryptographic handshakes under the hood.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Other advisors provided marketing with industry-specific advice in our initial vertical markets (computational fluid dynamics, computational chemistry, finite element analysis, and petroleum engineering). Our company’s stock was an inducement, but all of them were in it to help us build a better computer.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Your firm worked with an investment banking firm that underwrote and offered stock (typically on the NASDAQ exchange) to the public.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

The company was the laughing stock of the Mac market. They sold to a set of customers I knew nothing about. Yet somehow they thought that my prior experience in high-end computer graphics might be relevant. Why I was interested was equally obscure. Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

And to top it all off, Snap isn’t offering voting rights to public market investors, which should discount the stock price further. The smartphone is for everyone, we don’t have to think the iPhone is about a certain demographic, or country or vertical market: it’s for everyone. 2016/2017 Spectacles — capture video on the glasses.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

increasing dividends or issuing preferred stock). But it makes less sense to me… consumers love Netflix because they can get it on all kinds of hardware devices (TVs from many makers, game consoles, tablets, etc) and content owners deal with Netflix because they don’t want iTunes to dominate digital video as it has digital music.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 22, 2013

Back in 2007 I noted that HMV was the most shorted stock on the London stock exchange and many similar businesses have also gone bust in recent years (Game in the US and Zavvi in the UK spring to mind). Ecommerce entrepreneurs in other verticals could look for analagous opportunities.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

Impressions can be used in real-time for decision-making by your display, video and search platforms (e.g., VPs have a higher altitude, they are paid a ton more in salary, bonus and stock, because they carry the responsibility for making super strategic decisions – impacting tens of millions of dollars. via automation).

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

As the conversation began to get down to how much stock and salary we could offer van Dam, we left the barber to finish his work and went to a payphone to call our CEO to confirm the deal. We were painting a picture of hypertext on every desktop computer. The response from across the country? Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

One key difference: unlike HP, which had restricted stock ownership to the founders and top management, Perry made sure everyone at ESL had stock. HP had an ethical culture, entrepreneurial spirit, and deep Stanford engineering department connections. There were no venture investors. The “customers’” contracts funded the company.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

For industries with thin profit margins, offering an incentive like 2% off isn’t very enticing, and in many verticals, and in some cases might require a significant lift in sales in order to break even. But… it’s not as simple as tacking on a loyalty program & expecting customers to start “living” at your store. image source.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

For industries with thin profit margins, offering an incentive like 2% off isn’t very enticing, and in many verticals, and in some cases might require a significant lift in sales in order to break even. But… it’s not as simple as tacking on a loyalty program & expecting customers to start “living” at your store. image source.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

For industries with thin profit margins, offering an incentive like 2% off isn’t very enticing, and in many verticals, and in some cases might require a significant lift in sales in order to break even. But… it’s not as simple as tacking on a loyalty program & expecting customers to start “living” at your store. image source.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

For industries with thin profit margins, offering an incentive like 2% off isn’t very enticing, and in many verticals, and in some cases might require a significant lift in sales in order to break even. But… it’s not as simple as tacking on a loyalty program & expecting customers to start “living” at your store. image source.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 10, 2022

JetBlue has had to recreate established models and vertically integrate where the adjacent experiences for the customer and courageous brand to reinvent an entire ecosystem in this way. Thanks to Adam Garcia, The Stock Dork ! #5- They also offer a video option which I think is awesome. Photo Credit: Hussain Almossawi.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2019

In 2010, Dr. Anne Aula, a Senior User Experience Researcher at Google, presented some disappointing findings about mouse tracking: Only 6% of people showed some vertical correlation between mouse movement and eye tracking. Even if you do look at it to see if it supports your suspicions, don’t put too much stock in it. Attention maps.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

It’s the decisions that you make that might cost you an order, a sale or a higher stock price. I’m sure at Enron and Madoff there were plaques and posters about ethics. Just remember ethics and values are about what you practice when the going gets tough. Do the right thing. It pays off in the end. Blog at WordPress.com.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Generative AI will really become magic when it moves from 'playful' to 'useful' – we will use multiple generative AI tools at work in the future, like we use grammarly and canned responses today… AI will become more vertical, and specific per role — Eze Vidra (@ediggs) November 5, 2022.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 21, 2020

That’s why the health vertical has a virtually permanent spot near the top of the percentage of new startups. And tech has become a necessity in our lives, and that place is now further solidified with the fast adoption of video conferencing and digital creation platforms. Technology and modern life cannot be pulled apart.

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BeyondVC

JULY 23, 2007

The Wall Street Journal announced another Nokia mobile internet purchase today of a company called Twango which allows users to share photos, video, and media. This is an important shift and one that Motorola does not seem to be getting and consequently one of the many reasons its stock has been floundering.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Think; custom stock photography. Whether you’re trying something new or planning to attack a more saturated vertical like beauty or fashion, if you don’t love what you’re doing, you’ll lose your motivation to keep creating.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 1, 2012

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! – [link]. Can There Ever Be a Fair Price?

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 8, 2016

” He and his company have worked in the video game business since the very earliest generation of games in the early 1980’s. We’re successful because we specialize in “hard problems” but not in any one vertical market. His company is one of the oldest independent studios in the business.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

(To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.). Skype and Zoom are useful for video/audio conferences. The Long Term Stock Exchange is building out a set of tools for founders for managing their cap tables, 409A valuations, cash on hand, options pool, investor relations, etc.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In 2010, Dr Anne Aula, Senior User Experience Researcher at Google, gave a presentation where she presented some disappointing findings about mouse tracking : Only 6% of people showed some vertical correlation between mouse movement and eye tracking. Use session replays allow you to record video sessions of people going through your site.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

So your Figma, your stock footage, library, you know, your tools for managing ads and things of that nature. It includes training videos, spreadsheet, templates, checklists, cheat sheets, with all these benchmarks. So if you can imagine you have a vertical access on that access, you have high value at the top.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

We created Lemonade as a purpose-built, technology-first, vertically integrated and legacy-free insurance carrier. Rather than opt for stock imagery, Lemonade uses illustrations on its landing pages. The Instagram audience is largely creative and receptive to images and videos. As does its identity.

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blog.teamtreehouse.com

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Lacking vertical alignment, all of the frameworks were technically half grids. Fundamentally, frameworks resemble table-based layout of yore: Horizontal rows divided into vertical blocks. In a separate stylesheet, though, it includes styles to manage a site’s baseline, or vertical grid. Old school. Toast is simple.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The thesis of our current business model (startups are all about testing theses) was that there was a need for video producers and content owners to make money from their videos, and that they could do that by charging their audience. Video producers are afraid of charging for content, because they don’t think people will pay.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 6, 2012

All the information given in the video should be available in text as well, in a concise format. Add a call to action on top of the video on the home page. Avoid cheesy stock photos. Your headline is about the video, but should be about the site. Don’t rely on the video to do the communication.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Jobs not only killed all the commodity hardware and the horizontal strategy; he went radically vertical. They are paid in terms of stock options that vest over 4 years and cash bonuses for quarterly and yearly performance. When Jobs came in and reversed those decisions, most industry analysts thought Jobs was insane.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

They’ll make much more sense if you watch the video or read some of the earlier posts for context. He raised the money by selling stock to prominent Boston families who – seeing the benefit of the joint stock company – went on to found, railroads, banks, and insurance companies based on this new model.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

My way of explaining our support and service role to the marketing department was that: Sales is the sharp end of the stick, and marketing at best, is the stick. But while the sales team works for commission, the rest of the employees have equity (stock) in the company. No one was confused after that. Who’s on the Sharp End?

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

You’ll also find the video recording of the presentation at the end of this article and t he slides are available here. Is the sky the limit for Cloud public stocks? In two weeks, Doctolib made the product self-serve and extensively deployed the solution, which you can hear more about in the short video below. million today.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 12, 2017

One is the local pack, one is organic results, one is video results and one is ad words. They’re looking to local as a way for revenue enhancement and they may talk all day long about taking care of the user, but they have a master and that master is the stock market.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

Top Stories Photo & Video Galleries Top Lists Trending Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video More Topics. World Videos Featured: Facebook. Top 10 Most-Shared Disney Pixar Videos. On2 designed video codec technology which Google used to optimize its WebM video format. Trending Stories.

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VC Cafe

MAY 18, 2022

After a 13 year bull market run, anywhere you look in the stock market these days, it’s mostly RED. The tech companies that have been stock market darlings, breaking new records, are struggling, many missing analysts expectations. Multiples by vertical. Tech is entering a downturn. And the markets reacted to all of these.

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