YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

An early example occurred in 2010 when UBS Analyst Neil Currie accessed satellite imagery to monitor activity in Walmart parking lots, running the data thru a mathematical regression to translate it into customer activity for better earnings forecasts. Underwriting. Headcount.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

.“… “Then we engage with the product and the entrepreneur and because we know these areas very well we don’t have to spend a lot of time understanding the market or understanding the customer.”. So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. In 1996 got connected up with Softbank which was investing very aggressively in the U.S.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 20, 2019

Customers are the lifeblood of every business. What used to be easy when you had one employee and two customers is more difficult when you employ five people and have 25 customers. For example, this is the time a smart business owner absolutely must double-down on great customer service. Why a CRM?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 16, 2020

We have incredible amounts of data available when customers visits our websites and if these data are utilized correctly, it will inevitably put you multiple steps in front of your competitors. Content is King” is what Bill Gates famously said in an essay from 1996. Creating content with Adobe Cloud.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Well before the web existed, I was physically tearing articles out of industry magazines and sending them to customers, prospects, other entrepreneurs, and my partner Dave, who probably got tired of the stack of paper with notes scribbled on them that landed on his desk each day.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Handspring’s customers understood what a Personal Digital Assistant was.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

percent of new entrepreneurs in 1996 and that by 2014, this number had fallen to just 5.6 The ability to use what’s available and at-hand is an essential skill set for entrepreneurs, who must continuously find ways to stretch resources, improve products, and attract customers. But today, veteran entrepreneurship is on the decline.

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Austin Startup

MAY 19, 2019

Here’s why but it’s really boring: The 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act called for the creation of an automated system to record arrivals and departures of non-U.S. The government and the airlines pay attention to opinion of their customers. What is Biometric Entrance? Why Should You Opt Out?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

But as LA as a tech community grew massively the percentage of our LA deals went from 15% to 50% from 1996 to 2010 and it has remained solid since then. And we had to shift to be with our customers and prospects. Also, many of our deals were in NYC, Chicago, San Francisco or London. So Silicon Valley massively shifted to San Francisco.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

.” You’ve diplomatically explained to the client that they really should be using custom photography, but they insist that you find a “better/cheaper representation online.” Meet the “Everywhere Girl” Back in 1996, Jennifer Anderson posed for a stock photo shoot shortly after graduating college.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 6, 2011

According to respondents already offering hosted cloud services, 42 per cent expected to see growth from the broader IT sector, 39 per cent from financial services and 30 per cent from retail customers. With the cloud, users may have significant cost savings as they shift their data and applications to the cloud.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Reporting in the Harvard Business Review on a major study of growth stalls they conducted, Olson and his colleagues cite the case of the iconic brand Levi Strauss, which hit a historic high mark of sales in 1995, reaching revenue of $7 billion, but then, starting in 1996, saw a decline in sales so precipitous that by 2000, revenue was down to $4.6

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 22, 2020

Is it an increase in sales; building a community of followers and clients; higher retention rates or improved customer service? . She began her work-at-home career in 1996 with the launch of her first website: Home-Based Working Moms. Include not only the most important tasks of the job, but also the outcomes you desire for this role.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Is it an increase in sales; building a community of followers and clients; higher retention rates or improved customer service? She began her work-at-home career in 1996 with the launch of her first website: Home-Based Working Moms. Include not only the most important tasks of the job, but also the outcomes you’ll expect.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 29, 2021

He’s the founder of Capital Factory, a coworking community and accelerator designed to help startups find their first investors, customers and employees. Josh founded his first startup in 1996 in his college dormitory at Carnegie Mellon University and now teaches a class at the University of Texas for student entrepreneurs.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

A non-compete agreement puts restrictions on the contractor’s ability to take your customers or clients to a competitor. She began her work-at-home career in 1996 with the launch of her first website: Home-Based Working Moms. These documents tend to outline specific actions and timeframes where the conditions apply.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Yet your business vision and mission should not only move people, but achieve four specific things for your customers, investors, as well as everyone who comes in contact with your business: direct, guide, inspire, and excite. Tip #1 – Use the 4 ingredients of a Compelling Mission and Vision Statement.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2014

You need an image that represents “freedom” or “happiness” or ::shutter:: “corporate synergy” You’ve diplomatically explained to the client that they really should be using custom photography, but they insist you find a “better/cheaper representation online.” Photograph.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2012

by Joseph and JoAnn Callaway, authors of “ Clients First “ We put the customer first. When you really put the customer first, and put your own needs second, a whole lot of other things naturally fall into place. JoAnn and I entered real estate in 1996 when interest rates were almost 9 percent. I should know.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 6, 2017

It also isn’t any less true than it was Bill Gates coined the phrase back in 1996. Custom visuals are the best safeguard against sending mixed messages in your content. Custom graphics are the best and fastest way to build brand recognition on sites like Facebook and Twitter. 2 – You’re answering questions. #3

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

In 1996, when I started my first company, SneakerLabs, Inc., One of our first customers was a stock trading company in NY that wanted to host live stock chats. Another customer was my alma mater, Carnegie Mellon University, who was using it to host online class discussions for its distance education program. Not so fast.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 14, 2021

He’s the founder of Capital Factory, a coworking community and accelerator designed to help startups find their first investors, customers and employees. Josh founded his first startup in 1996 in his college dormitory at Carnegie Mellon University and now teaches a class at the University of Texas for student entrepreneurs.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2014

But Xerox instead chose to shut XTV down in 1996, despite its external success. The success of Documentum and Document Sciences, they felt, came largely from Xerox technology and customers, yet the startup companies XTV funded got all the credit. Filed under: Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan , Customer Development.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2013

Starting in 1996 with the Intel P6 (Pentium Pro) to today’s P7 chips (Core i7) these processors contain instructions that are reprogrammable in what is called microcode. Filed under: Customer Development , Secret History of Silicon Valley. Customer Development Secret History of Silicon Valley'

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2018

The Millennial generation – which generally refers to individuals born between 1980-1996 – continues to fascinate businesses. It is especially important to be clear about pricing structure so that potential customers can quickly understand what plan benefits include and don’t include. by Sally Poblet, CEO of Wellthie.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

A great guide to the balanced scorecard approach can be found in the classic 1996 book by Robert S. SageRetirement’s CARE program can help Sage customers establish their plan quickly and easily at a competitive cost. Kaplan and David P. Retirement benefits. Photo: Frank M. Great reads on small business and entrepreneurship.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2019

As your idea takes shape, you’ll increasingly zero in on the audience of potential customers whose problem your offering solves; for everyone else, your idea may not generate excitement, but don’t let that discourage you. And having a familiar basis for your offering will help customers recognize why it’s worth buying.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

And even the above mentioned difficulties notwithstanding, it’s completely unclear how to pay those customers we’ve rented computing resources from. To the customer, the price in question would be really low: for instance, if we divide the price of renting the CompecTA supercomputer for one month by 10 000, we’ll get no more than 6 cents.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 2, 2010

I wasn’t able to make it to Boston yesterday for the Angel Boot Camp as I was running around NYC with the CEO of a company I invested in last week introducing him to a bunch of potential customers and partners. For context, I’ve made over 75 direct angel investments primarily in two time periods – 1994-1996 and 2006-2007.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

The founder Jeff Hyman is a long time friend (I was a seed investor in his first company in 1996) and is incredibly passionate about Retrofit and what he and his team is doing. I’m not an investor (it’s outside our themes), but I’m a huge supporter of Jeff and Retrofit – it’s been amazing for me as a customer.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 5, 2018

I wrote about the power of focusing on Purpose (the why) in my first book in 1996 “ The Heart of Leadership: 12 Practices of Courageous Leaders “ More recently Simon Sinek gave a great TED Talk on the importance of focusing on your WHY. For an enterprise it is the central, inspiring organizing force.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Freeloader — On $3m invested, sold for $38m in 1996 — shut down in 1997. .” Here’s the summary of his track record (excerpted from the Fast Company article): Forefront — IPO’ed in 1995 by CBT — CBT stock fell 85% in 1998 and prompted class-action lawsuits. Support.com — On 2.5m

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

In 1996 RIM was still in the hardware business selling packet-switched wireless radio modems to OEMs. But RIM decided to hide all of that from their customers. In today’s language of Customer Development , RIM positioned the Blackberry as a segment of an existing market – pager users who needed two-way communication.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Ensure staff, partners, customers, and board understand the business technological vision. Own and manage the internal IT customer support process, and externally where appropriate. © 1996 - 2010 Reincubate Limited. Work with others to produce graphic design for prototype. XML sitemap. VAT registered #867 0159 09.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

John Jantsch: Want to quickly send amazing looking emails to your prospects and customers in just minutes? So back in 1996 I wanted to start my own business and I asked my mom, “Hey, what businesses could I do from home?” Back to Podcast. Transcript. Visit aweber.com for a 30-day free trial. I’ve forgotten everything.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2014

A Berkshire Hathaway Chairman’s Letter from 1996 underlines that point. They are close to the desires and needs of their customers. They value Trust, both internal (employees) and external (customers and shareholders). They’ve built high levels of employee and customer trust. They know the effect of pricing.

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