Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. I bought the Diamond Rio mp3 player in 1998. Second best are letters from future customers promising future business. . In both cases what surprises me is not that it happened, but how long it took.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The irony is that in a retrospective paper ten years later (1998), [ 2 ] the authors backed off from their claims. Soon every other VC was using the phrase to justify the reckless “get big fast” strategies of dot-com startups during the Internet Bubble. Implicit Customer Discovery and Validation in Fast Followers. Golder and G.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

Let us look at examples of the last two major computing cycles (prior to the Internet). As you can see, we are poised to hit the major adoption wave for the Internet technology platform over the next 8 years. The internet is working. A lot has changed since the internet bubble eleven years ago. Today, there are over 2.1

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Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2015

While Microsoft introduced MSN Search in 1998, the site purely used an existing search engine, Inktomi, to gather results. Ronald Johnson: Know your customers, or face losing them. Finally, don’t try to pull the wool over your stakeholders’ or customers’ eyes, it’ll only come back to bite you.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 5, 2016

As time has drug on, the Internet and technology have brought about new payment solutions, which make it possible to send money anywhere easily and more affordably. Although charge cards were basic, they were effective and make it possible for customers to make their purchase, without carrying physical money. Online Shopping.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Andrew Chen responded to that with a thoughtful post about how the ‘funding goalposts continue to move’ Here’s the money quote: It’s been widely noted that investing milestones have evolved quickly over time: In 1998, you’d raise $5M Series A with an idea and not much else.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. Try charging customers for your product when you have 12 competitors giving the product away free finances by $20 million of VC. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million. The Funding Problem. The Exit Problem.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2016

First, Merchenta created customized ads based on geographic radius to target people who are more likely to go to a specific Mazda dealership. You can look inside your AdWords dimensions tab to break down which cities should get their custom remarketing ads first. They had an engagement rate of almost 20% from their ads. Image Source).

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

Because of the extreme unknowns inherent in startup situations, we are all blind – to the realities of what customers what, market dynamics, and competitive threats. For example, a recent event I held started with a customer validation exercise (actually, this example is fictionalized for clarity). What’s happening?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

One, which is described in great detail in the Mythical Man-Month (in finding that link, I discovered that today is coincidentally the exact 11th anniversary of my first purchasing that book: Jan 19, 1998), is that as you add people to a team or project, there is an increase in communications overhead that makes everyone slightly less productive.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

in 1998 and eventually became Yahoo!Store. Harness the internet to validate your business idea. JustEat - is the intermediary between customers and independent takeaway food outlets. Sold to Yahoo! Ask people if they’re interested in the idea and use this as a basic starting point. That’s a viable approach. .

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

BetaBrand building apparel MVPs and testing them quickly with targeted customer communities. Telecom O2 learning to move at the speed of the internet 500 Startups and their accelerated feedback loops on what works, and what doesn't work in early-stage investing. Social entrepreneurs take note!) It's a big tent.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 10, 2011

In 1998, Google was the new kid in an established (if not quite mature) market for Internet search, and by 2004, it was by far the leading Internet search engine, handling almost 85% of the search requests on the web. Brand imagery associations determine how a customer looks at brand’s palpable qualities and features.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 2, 2010

A tagline is supposed to communicate to your customers and potential customers what sets you apart from your competition and also your brand’s focus. Think different (Apple) – 1998. The most memorable taglines are about your customers, not about your company. California Milk Processor Board) – 1993.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 2, 2010

A tagline is supposed to communicate to your customers and potential customers what sets you apart from your competition and also your brand’s focus. Think different (Apple) – 1998. The most memorable taglines are about your customers, not about your company. California Milk Processor Board) – 1993.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL was closed, the Internet was open. And then came AOL.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 23, 2010

When I attended between 1998-2001, there were a few course on entrepreneurship (entrepreneurial finance, entrepreneurial strategy, etc.), but I don’t recall courses on internet strategy. If enough people sign up for it, the offer is good.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. The inflation-adjusted data from the last bubble tells the story: In the 3-year period from 1998-2000, venture capital firms raised more than $200 billion, which represented about 0.55% of the national GDP.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

It means they have to deal with finances and customers and investors and other things that aren’t what they love to do, which is building software. What makes software engineers different in the startup world is that they have the requisite skills to hack together an idea on their own if they so choose.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 14, 2013

Or a pizza delivery guy urinating on a customer’s door after receiving too small a tip? See also Google Glass: What Do You Want To Know About Google’s Internet Eyewear.). Were you surprised that the Boston Marathon bombers were caught on video? You shouldn’t have been. How about a meteor falling in Russia ?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2017

Online directories are sites that scrape the Internet looking for businesses’ information – at a minimum they’ll include a company’s name, address and phone number (NAP) — to pull into their master database of businesses. Online Business Directories are websites that scrape the Internet looking for information about local businesses.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

It was 1998 and the internet wasn’t exactly readily available. It sounds simple now, but in 1998 it was unheard of. We wanted our customers to have the opportunity to learn exactly how our products are made and with what ingredients. Did the Canucks win their last hockey game? What were the election results?

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Bezos reimagined the way leaders write, speak, and motivate teams and customers. So in an age when we are being bombarded by information, all of our customers, our clients, now let's focus on marketers and the people who are listening to our podcast specifically, How do you rise above the noise? Now, these tools are available to you.

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

You are expecting lots of new orders, so you decide to hire another customer service person to be ready for the deluge of phone calls. In 1998, SourceGear was looking to hire a full-time person in technical support. They dont help customers work out tough problems. This is an easy mistake to make. Version 7.0

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 21, 2014

In 1998, Yom Kippur fell on September 30th. It was the last day of the third quarter of the year and we hard more deals we needed to close to finish the quarter strong and report numbers to Wall Street that justified our high-flying profile as a recently public Internet commerce software company.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

It should go without saying, but the performance level should be set with input from your customers. Sadly, the user system that has powered our website since 1998 no longer plays nicely with todays technology. Valentino Martinez. May 10, 2010 at 11:33 am. Primary sourcing: Employee referral program implementation. Competitor unknown.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 5, 2010

In summary, I went online in 1998, played with the web for two years, spending my time on newsgroups, forums and surfing for information on the things I was interested in at the time. Get your bonus copy of my book "How To Start An Internet Business & Make Your First $1,000 Online" Download Here.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books. 2) Help Others & Improve Upon Customer Service. I started my business namely to help others and to improve upon the aloof customer service being presented in the IT industry. That’s it. That’s what we do.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You need three things to create a successful startup: to start withgood people, to make something customers actually want, and to spendas little money as possible. The woman in charge of sales was so tenacious that I used to feelsorry for potential customers on the phone with her. A startup that does all three willprobably succeed.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I had a lot of fun learning what the internet could do for me. In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. I didn’t have that contractor doing customer support. Where am I today?

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Quite simply, the digital, mobile, and Internet revolutions are transforming the way customers access financial products and services of all types, and across all consumer and business sectors. Since being founded in 1998 LendingTree has facilitated more than 32 million loan requests.

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ConversionXL

MAY 31, 2017

What happens when evolving customer preferences for certain technologies make lead capture forms obsolete? Messenger (1998), and MSN/Windows Live Messenger (1999). According to Mary Meeker’s 2016 Internet Trends Report , 6 of the world’s top 10 most used apps are messaging apps. A Shift in How We Communicate. Image Source.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2018

In my field—online English language teaching—there are a lot of literal business names out there: Joe’s Internet English School, Learn English Online via Skype, etc. We knew that we wanted our new consulting firm to focused on improving customers top line revenue growth. 1- Suggestive and evocative name. Photo Credit: Rob Sheppard.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Asset management also shows the traditional earmarks of an industry ripe for disruption — most obviously, unhappy customers and extremely profitable incumbents. Almost every other industry collectively does what it promises; the restaurant industry does give all its customers food. Would you pay a $379 tip for a $70 meal?

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Case Study #2 MailChimp Gets A Friendlier Design – Increases customer base by 600% In A Year. See, Mailchimp had already been around since 2001 and it took them from 7 years to reach their first 10,000 customers. million customers total) in 2012. 1998) – 120,000+ customers. GetResponse (est.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Is that how Lawson thinks about its customers (I assume some of them are using some sort of SaaS application)? Of course not - the CEO has a much better way to qualify their customers as you will see below. ".traditional

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Up and Running

JUNE 5, 2012

As more and more consumers look to the Internet as their main source for finding information about service businesses, SEO is rapidly becoming one of the strongest marketing strategies available. Try customizing the meta description tag to incorporate the main keywords relating to the services your company provides.

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