Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

One of them – Interliant (where we were co-chairman) – was a huge success for a while, reaching a peak market cap of about $3 billion on NASDAQ. Charlie started his own company, The Feld Group, in 1992 , when my company (Feld Technologies) was five years old.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

Seemed such a fantasy back in 1992. There are some competitors in the market such as MyZeo , but I love my wife too much to wear a headband to bed. Tags: SoCal Stuff Tech Market Analysis. Yet 2010 is already showing me how connected our lives and our health are starting to become. Measuring my daily activity.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Here are some of the many ways I recommend to market and sell products and services with love, not fear: Love-Based Tip #1: Don’t Exaggerate. Don’t feel the need to distill everyone’s experiences into some cute, clever, marketing speak elevator pitch/slogan you can spit out at networking meetings. Resist this temptation.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 16, 2014

by Mark Satterfield , author of “ The One Week Marketing Plan: The Set It & Forget It Approach for Quickly Growing Your Business “. Finding time to sit peacefully in front of your computer each week and craft a thoughtful marketing message just isn’t in the cards. Message 7: It’s important to think about marketing as a sequence.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 9, 2020

If you are looking for information on the public markets, this is not the blog you should be reading. Instead, I encourage you to go read Fred Wilson’s post Market Meltdowns or Howard Lindzon’s post Momentum Monday – A Panic For The Ages. Lightman is an astrophysicist, novelist, essayist, and educator.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 29, 2017

A 1992 study from the Harvard Business Review found that the right pricing changes can drive revenue and profit improvements faster than any other growth lever — faster than increasing the volume of sales or decreasing costs. Facts and market data is key — hunches and gut responses are rarely sufficient to improve your pricing architecture.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 15, 2020

Near term predictions drive the stock market (e.g., It’s followed by a comment by Lawrence Wright, a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992 and author of the incredible and timely book The End of October. There are entire domains, such as economics, that are all about predictions.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2019

Client education is central to marketing messaging, too, especially for sellers with long sales cycles. The truth is less clear cut, especially for marketers. Craft marketing materials that resonate with multiple stakeholders. The second study, however, unearths a critical point, especially for marketers. They didn’t. ).

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

by Mark Satterfield , author of “ The One Week Marketing Plan: The Set It & Forget It Approach for Quickly Growing Your Business “ If someone were to ask who your ideal client is, you might jokingly respond, “Anyone with a wallet!” Your identity and your marketing messages get so diluted that they don’t resonate with anyone.

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Up and Running

JULY 25, 2014

ESPN’s strategy demonstrates the importance of being able to adjust your business plan in real-time as you receive positive (or negative) feedback from your target market. If your product or service is leading the market, that’s a great feeling, but it’s important to remember that the “game” isn’t over. .

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 8, 2018

Luckily, we already had clients before we decided to start our marketing agency. We engaged a market research firm to find out. and we have since moved in to the digital marketing space, I have found the name to be liked by potential customers and it’s a great icebreaker to talk about at networking events. Photo Credit: Kevin W.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

… Four of the twenty companies with the largest market capitalization in the U.S.—Microsft, capital markets for listed equities have been in systemic decline since 1997, while every other major international equity market has been growing. Microsft, Apple, Google, Cisco—have been funded by venture capital.”.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

by Mark Satterfield , author of “ The One Week Marketing Plan: The Set It & Forget It Approach for Quickly Growing Your Business “ As any experienced business blogger will tell you, one of the toughest parts of the job is thinking of a steady stream of interesting topics.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2014

by Mark Satterfield , author of “ The One Week Marketing Plan: The Set It & Forget It Approach for Quickly Growing Your Business “ You know the thought experiment that goes, “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” He is the author of “ The One Week Marketing Plan “.

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Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 6, 2011

Looking back 19 years ago (1992), I realize that I had my first cell phone, dial up access to bulletin boards, a love affair with email, and was doing consulting for AT&T on Apple’s first mobile computing device, the Newton. and autographs, we spent some time talking about what the future might look like.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

I use George Bush vs. Al Gore as allegory and I’ve been using it with entrepreneurs for years to sink in a simple point about how to communicate with the market. They are incredibly smart and a huge command of details of complex markets and systems. And it was oft repeated and gave Salesforce a huge marketing advantage.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

By 1992 Research in Motion (RIM) had been in business for eight years, had 16 employees, sales of about $500,000 a year, and three or four business lines. Resegmenting an Existing Market. Creating a New Market. RIM and TiVo are two examples of getting it right and wrong. Research in Motion (RIM). You got it. Video Recording.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2014

by Mark Satterfield , author of “ The One Week Marketing Plan: The Set It & Forget It Approach for Quickly Growing Your Business “ These days, it seems business blogs are everywhere. Done well, your blog can become an essential component in your marketing arsenal. And why not?

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

by Mark Satterfield , author of “ The One Week Marketing Plan: The Set It & Forget It Approach for Quickly Growing Your Business “ In theory, if you want a new client, all you need to do is make your case and ask for the business, again and again and again. We’re told marketing is hard. Does that approach work?

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

Between 2001 and 2008 mergers and acquisitions (M&A) accounted for 87% of venture-backed company exits, up from an average of 44% in between 1992 and 2000. Second, emerging growth companies lose negotiating leverage in acquisitions when they have no other viable liquidity alternatives. Investors take risk in order to reap rewards.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2014

Kathryn has been the founding VP of Marketing of Oracle , a successful recruiter, a world class Venture Capitalist, a co-founder of a Venture Capital firm, a great board member, one of my mentors and most importantly a wonderful friend. So I joined Oracle when it was about 20 people, eventually becoming VP Marketing.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Established in 1992, the day is intended to raise awareness related to struggles involving mental illness and mobilize resources to address those struggles. Whether you’re a designer, writer, or marketer, so much of what we do involves dynamic, out-of-the-box thinking. Image Source: Imagine Therapies.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Established in 1992, the day is intended to raise awareness related to struggles involving mental illness and mobilize resources to address those struggles. Whether you’re a designer, writer, or marketer, so much of what we do involves dynamic, out-of-the-box thinking. Image Source: Imagine Therapies.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Established in 1992, the day is intended to raise awareness related to struggles involving mental illness and mobilize resources to address those struggles. Whether you’re a designer, writer, or marketer, so much of what we do involves dynamic, out-of-the-box thinking. Image Source: Imagine Therapies.

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Up and Running

APRIL 4, 2014

In a move that can be described as gross negligence, Hummer Winblad didn’t bother to do any independent market research in its push for an IPO. Do your market research and develop a business plan before you open your doors. Do your market research and develop a business plan before you open your doors. Who cares?!

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Up and Running

JUNE 26, 2015

It started with a tiny nugget you were bouncing around, and it grew up in a marketing meeting. You need to connect marketing to products. million patent applications…pending, compared with around 269,000 in 1992.”. You have mastered everything and you’re a business, development, and marketing genius. Congratulations!

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Hippoland

DECEMBER 15, 2015

The IPO markets have been tough, and late stage investors are realizing their unicorns actually are just My Little Ponies in a Halloween costume. In 1992, we were in a recession. (Note: these are my opinions and not my employer’s): 1) Raising seed capital from VCs who invest in all stages will become challenging.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

APRIL 9, 2015

They drifted away from this core, tempted by the profits in bigger consumer markets like phones and television sets. Radio Shack hasn’t known who they are for many years now and they’ve switched target markets many times. Then, they got enamored of bigger markets that were really outside their target. Death spiral!

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 1, 2014

In an iconic scene from Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) , Alec Baldwin lectures a group of salesmen about the correct way of doing business. Okay, this may not have been what was actually said in the movie, but if you’re a marketer, chances are you’ve heard this mantra in the real world. How’s a marketer to know?

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aweissman.com

APRIL 19, 2012

Many of the traditional roles, or competencies, normally assigned to media companies - financing, production, distribution, promotion, marketing - have been disaggregated. Miramax films - I still check out what Miramax releases due to the strength of The Crying Game and Reservoir Dogs, back from 1992.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

In addition to branding and marketing, an in-house design team tackles a variety of projects for clients of all sizes and industries. Founded by David Turner and Bruce Duckworth in 1992, the firm now has three offices that are its “secret weapon,” according to the site. Leo Burnett. courtesy of Leo Burnett. Glenlivet, and many more.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 31, 2021

A dramatic proxy war in 1915 helped him retake control, but the new vehicle market crashed in 1918, and he lost it forever. John has invested in various small businesses and served as a mentor and branding authority since his beginnings in 1992. The company then risked becoming utterly irrelevant in the market. 14- Flickr.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 14, 2013

This ubertrend spurred a host of subtends, including reality shows, like MTV’s The Real World , which debuted in 1992; Celebrity Worship Syndrome , coined in 2003 and propelled by “pixel paparazzis;” HDTV in 1998; helicopter police chases, including the infamous 1994 O.J. Surveillance Gear.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Confusing a name with marketing. When asked their marketing strategy, they responded with blank looks. With that domain name, who needs marketing? With thanks to hubpages.com , names like Drain Surgeons, The Stalk Market, and Get Plastered. Then in 1992 we moved to Eugene, Oregon. Wasn’t it obvious?

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Andrew Payne

MAY 4, 2009

Our first Internet connection was a 64K DDS data circuit costing $400/month in 1992 (about $600 in today’s dollars). Regulatory and licensing hurdles make it difficult for new competitors to enter many markets, allowing incumbent providers to exploit their positions for better profit margins.

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2018

I put “ SuperWomen Do IT Less” ( First Edition 1992) into the closet, and became my own boss. Some of the parameters I had for my new business location included things I knew benefited me in my years of sales and marketing out of Dallas: An airport within 25 miles. A marketing area within a three- to four-hour drive.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2012

In the years after the Olympics of 1992 and Mariscal designs or Almodovar films posters and Madrid “Movida” underground artists, there has a been a boom in a huge new generation of very well prepared independent artists and designers.

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