Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2021

We were introduced in the spring of 1993 by Jim Galvin, CEO of Allcom, which had just been acquired by Len’s company Sage Alerting Systems. It took a while for me and my partner Dave Jilk to decide to do it, but we closed the sale in November 1993. After 89 years on this planet, Len Fassler passed away on Friday.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

Though it wasn’t intended, the last two articles I wrote on the PlainFlow blog have formed a series: The Modern SaaS Stack and the Unexploited Amount of Data is a walkthrough that shows how companies use Modern SaaS Stack to cover their Marketing/Support/Sales activities from day-0. All manual operations. The rise of PQL over MQL model.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 2, 2022

For instance, the memorable Coca-Cola polar bear was part of the 1993 global “Always Coca-Cola campaign.” These contemporary marketing trends include interactive social media campaigns, emotional receptiveness to drive sales, sustainability, and involvement with the latest technology.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 4, 2010

In fact, a 1993 paper by Peter N. This is a great strategy if there’s a bubble occuring in your market or you are going to bet it all on flipping your company for a sale. Soon every other VC was using the phrase to justify the reckless “get big fast” strategies of dot-com startups during the Internet Bubble. Golder and Gerard J.

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David Cohen

AUGUST 19, 2014

Here’s the quick story: in 1993, we founded our first company, Pinpoint Technologies, which grew from a basement startup to a successful multinational company with $50 million in annual sales and over 250 employees. Together we’ve had successes and failures over the last 25 years, and we’ve laughed a ton along the way.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Ed Rempel has been countering financial conventions at least since he hung up his professional shingle as a Toronto-based certified financial planner in 1993. Registered investment advisors like Rempel have a fiduciary responsibility to act in their clients’ best interests and accept no compensation based on product sales.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 6, 2014

I learned this in 1993 when my first company was acquired by Len Fassler and Jerry Poch, two of the absolute master deal makers I’ve ever worked with. Now, while Chet focuses on business development, the same is true for corporate development or sales. Sales business development' Then meet someone else.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2019

When I left Procter & Gamble as VP in Global Business Services and IT after a career of 27 years, I’d been associated with setting up the first shared services operation in the Philippines in 1993 — program managing an $8 billion dollar outsourcing deal. For decades, Domino’s played second fiddle to market leader Pizza Hut.

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

This year sales topped $A12.7 While the value of NFTs is crazy big, I can’t help but think that NFT sales wouldn’t be nearly as high if people were buying in fiat currency. Buckle in – we are about to get the missing link to the Internet we were promised in the mid 1990’s.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 4, 2012

million) of the 15 million net new jobs created between 1993 and 2009. The reality is that the United States is still a nation of small businesses. of the ~6 million companies in the U.S. have less than 500 people and they employ 50% of the 121 million workers getting a paycheck. They accounted for 65 percent (or 9.8

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

In 1993, Word 6.0 Even worse, DVD sales were starting to lag, and a Hollywood backlash further muddied the situation. The core idea had support from Larry Page, but the idea immediately encountered some pretty strong resistance from both the ad sales team, and the engineering team. WORD FOR MAC – Martina Lauchengco.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

In 1993 I was the founder of the Young Entrepreneurs Organization Boston Chapter and member #1. You present to a group of judges including Warren (MAK Technologies), Rich Farrell (Full Armor), Clark Waterfall (Boston Search Group), and Michael Hackel (DiningIN) who are all EO Boston members.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

So my journey started, sort of my entrepreneurial journey I guess started in around 1993. ” We’re looking at each other trying to get the next sale. Jack McGuinness: Our sales, our pipeline is much smoother or robust, I guess you would call it. Jack McGuinness: Sure. And we don’t really have that anymore.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

Austin-based author, tech investor and Managing Director of Techstars Austin Amos Schwartzfarb reveals details for the launch event for his new book “Sell More Faster: The Ultimate Sales Playbook for Start-Ups,” published by Wiley. Early stage sales and product-market fit are topics that I love talking about,” said Schwartzfarb.

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David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

In 1993 we co-founded our first startup, Pinpoint Technologies, alongside a third co-founder, Bob Durkin who focused on sales. At ADS we built a relationship that leveraged our respective strengths to make progress and became very good friends. There, we struggled with titles early on.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The mom-and-pop business became an instant success and its annual sales continued to skyrocket each year. Bikoff’s small business came about after the 1993 water contamination scare, in which he wanted to provide a sanitary and flavorful alternative to bottled spring water.

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Up and Running

MAY 19, 2016

While commercial bakeries still account for the majority of bakery sales, the industry as a whole is moving away from mass-produced products and increasingly toward niche offerings like healthy baked goods and high-quality, artisanal products. How does including nutrition information impact sales? Offer allergen-free products.

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Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

Cody, the VP of Sales wants this lead form on the front page. Peter: John, what if I built my website in 1993 and maybe it’s due for an update? You built your website in 1993? John: PR wants some event calendar. The marketing team wants this video. The web designer’s like, “What do I do?”

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2011

The program is geared to medium to large companies with sales of between 20 and 200 million shekels and annual exports of at least 10% of sales that are interested in establishing themselves in the Indian or Chinese market for the long run. The company has plants in Israel and the US, and sales offices in the US, Japan, and Europe.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

One of my favorite movie lines, which I think about often, comes from the 1993 movie Rudy. Learning the best new techniques in sales, marketing, operations, finance, HR, etc. In his pre-game inspirational talk in the film, Notre Dame football coach Dan Devine says, "No one, and I mean no one, comes into our house and pushes us around."

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

I thought it was a great description and encourage every entrepreneur who has never been through the sale of a company to read it. It 1993, I sold my first company, Feld Technologies, to a company called Sage Alerting Systems (which, after several name changes, became AmeriData Technologies.)

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Each year I have grown my business and last year I increased my sales by almost 30% from 2013. From a simple tool such as a pen to a more complex example such personnel, you’re sometimes one stroke away from running out of ink or one sick day away from losing a multi-million dollar sales opportunity. Image Credit: Julie Pelle.

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Up and Running

APRIL 23, 2013

We decided that it was time to put it out in retail stores and see how the sales do. You’ve been releasing albums since 1993, working with artists from all spectrums of hip-hop. Then, as we got more serious about it, we had to figure out if it was going to stay a hobby or if it was going to be a job. It turned into a real business.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Things Change In 1956 Hewlett Packard (HP) was a 17-year old company with $20 million in test equipment sales with 900 employees. IBM had a near death experience in 1993, and moved from a product-centric hardware company to selling a complete set of solutions and services. (I’ll show you the memo in a second.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

I graduated from high school in 1993 and enrolled into the Art Program at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. I am not sure what really happened, but I put designing aside and I chose a flooring sales job in Madison. This lifestyle I have chosen is pretty much like having a commission sales job. Starving, I guess.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

I graduated from high school in 1993 and enrolled into the Art Program at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. I am not sure what really happened, but I put designing aside and I chose a flooring sales job in Madison. This lifestyle I have chosen is pretty much like having a commission sales job. Starving, I guess.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 4, 2015

In a landmark paper by Griffin and Hauser in Marketing Science (1993), they defined four aspects to take into consideration when conducting voice of customer research. Drive more leads, sales, and revenue. Or, you may be tasked with reworking an entire home page and corresponding sales funnel. Hierarchical grouping of needs.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

But its stock is trading at twenty-odd times the company’s annual sales.” Four of them—Dolby Laboratories (1965), Lucasfilm (now owned by Disney, 1971), Adobe Systems (1982), and Autodesk (1982)—were founded before the first tech boom started around 1993. There is no E in the P/E.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

California Milk Processor Board) – 1993. The Phantom Sales Forecast – Failing at Customer Validation - Steve Blank , July 22, 2010 Startup CEO’s can’t delegate sales and expect it to happen. Here’s an example in a direct sales channel. Coming up with a memorable tagline can present an even greater challenge.

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