Spencer Fry

JULY 16, 2013

Make sales or die. A little background on me for anyone who hasn’t been reading my articles since 2009: I started selling on the Internet when I was eleven years old, in 1995. Since then I’ve co-founded three successful companies: TypeFrag, Carbonmade and Uncover. Revenue comes from sales. Revenue comes from sales.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder. These companies produced over $52 billion dollars in sales in 2005, and employed 450,000 workers that year. Similarly, 24% of all the patents filed in the US in 2006 had a foreign resident as inventor or co-inventor.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Take Craigslist founder Craig Newmark , for example. He went on to work at IBM for almost 17 years and served as a programmer at several major financial firms before launching Craigslist from his apartment in 1995 as a way to share information. A good example is Google cofounder Larry Page. Make the Most of Applied Math.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

Prices range from $20 to a maximum of $300, but there are frequent sales and discount codes offered online. Lynda.com is the oldest education resource online , with an origin story that stretches all the way back to 1995. A video preview of a lecture so you can get a feel for what the instructor is like. ” Lynda.com.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. We selected this benchmark because it reflects the phase in which companies have proven product viability, achieved initial product/market fit, and are now expanding sales and growing more complex operations. American VCs are critical.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

Prices range from $20 to a maximum of $300, but there are frequent sales and discount codes offered online. Lynda.com is the oldest education resource online , with an origin story that stretches all the way back to 1995. A video preview of a lecture so you can get a feel for what the instructor is like. ” Lynda.com.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 20, 2013

Savvy founders don’t just focus on iterating their own products – they look to other industries and niches for inspiration and opportunity as well. To find out which industries tech founders should look to next, I asked a panel of 13 founders the following: What is one industry (or niche) tech founders should be exploring now, and why?

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

I bought Forevervinyl.com back in 1995 and went online. I also wanted to future proof my business – to position it for growth, and ultimately sale, so giving it my name was out of the question. Over the next decade, our sales went from about $1 million per year to more than $30 million. 11- Quite simple. 27- Unusual way.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc.,

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. So I cut the corporate cord and co-founded Finespun Clothing. Thanks to Dean Cycon, Dean’s Beans Organic Coffee Co. ! #19 At the time, I was a doing sales and marketing for a media company. 12 – It was Just Time. I was mostly just doing.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

If O’Reilly had that same insight in 1995, it could have been an amazing blitzscaling opportunity. The founder of early internet startup Freeloader (acquired for $38 million in 1996) and anti-spam company Brightmail (acquired for $370 million in 2004), Paul went on to pioneer the ride-hailing space. The third is high gross margins.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

And since a startup thatsucceeds ordinarily makes its founders rich, that implies gettingrich is doable too. A lot ofwould-be startup founders think the key to the whole process is theinitial idea, and from that point all you have to do is execute.Venture capitalists know better. Ideally you want between two and four founders.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

He admitted no one would want to watch a seven-hour fight with his cofounders.”. In the real world, the montage is where ff Venture Capital and our founders live. Meaningful insight into how sales (and greed) works; some irrelevant sex and violence thrown in to sell tickets. He then asked why it doesn’t make it into the movie.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

Does the store have an emotional footprint or large ‘sale’ signs? What we’ve seen in digital…’A mashup co-creation, mass customised society’… we will inevitably see in retail…. These founders are imbuing their new businesses with the values of our time. People born after 1995 have never know life without the internet.

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Small Business Force

OCTOBER 25, 2015

As much as anything, it's about the two distinctly different founders whose diversity was the reason for the company's rapid growth.and its nearly catastrophic decline. RIM went from less than $5 million in revenue in FY1995 (February 1995) to $20 billion in FY2011, then back down to $3.3 But technology, alone, won't win the day.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

20 years ago, the classic startup model was to have young founders start a breakthrough company, then bring in “grey hair” in the form of experienced executives once it was time to scale the business. In other words, Ben asserts that bringing in a professional CEO should be a last resort for a founder. During the dot com era, Yahoo!’s

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 29, 2009

If you were funded by VCs in Silicon Valley, Boston, or Bombay, it still paid to have your CEO and sales team have eyes and ears in NYC for two main reasons. The rules of the game for the start-up's ultimate goal, accessing the public market through an IPO, were set by the investment bankers and sales desk traders on Wall Street.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Pierre Omidyar founded AuctionWeb in September of 1995, and its rise to fame is legendary. In its most recent quarter, the company processed the exchange of $923 million of sales, which equates to a $3.6B In 2017, the company reported sales of over $500 million. Exchange of Goods Marketplaces. annual GMV.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 3, 2014

The fact is, the average worker spends up to 60 percent of every workday in email, searching for information or collaborating with co-workers. And 60 percent of our time in email is spent with co-workers. That may explain why after he became Co-Founder and CEO of ACT!, Email Less. Collaborate More. Following ACT!’s

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