Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2009

I started my first company in 1999 in London at the height of the dot com craze. My competitors from those days STILL love to talk about how much money we raised in February 2000 (get over it already!). Reporters were no longer interested in talking about B2B eCommerce. This is part of my ongoing series Startup Lessons.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. This is the time it takes for a bankruptcy or asset sale to occur. Instead investors are looking for the next flash sale, private sale, game dynamic, social games that rely on mobile platforms with geo-fenced, location aware offers.

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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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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

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. Well, we’re a B2B marketing agency that specializes in services and intangible products. Over the next decade, our sales went from about $1 million per year to more than $30 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Mine started this way … I started my first company in the “go-go years&# of the Internet: 1999. We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. We were immediately thrust into a globally competitive market for B2B collaboration tools.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. In 2017, the company reported sales of over $500 million. annual GMV.

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