Sophia Perl of Wisdom

AUGUST 27, 2011

He figured out quickly that there was a demand for printed tutorials. He said they found some sh*ty online print on demand service who could take credit cards and went from there. Consider using Amazon EC2, 99Designs uses it, they get 5.25TB of images uploaded frequently, EC2 helped them scale with customer demand.

EC2 53

EC2 Social Network Distribution Demand 53

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2013

Like most startup entrepreneurs, when I began my first company in 1999 I had no formal sales experience. And when you achieve product / market fit your company often ramps revenue very fast and you need to build an organization to address it from demand generation (aka marketing) to sales discovery to implementation and after-sales support.

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Sales Startup Framework Search 393

Up and Running

JUNE 3, 2014

Today in Oklahoma City, Okla, Keith and Cheryl own three separate companies that manage and dispose of a variety of waste, from hazardous and commercial waste, to the treatment of industrial waters and grease trap cleaning. ’” Chuck Herb never planned on owning a waste management company either. No businesses, no trash.

Management 108

Management El Paso Oklahoma Las Vegas 108

thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

In places where international diplomacy had failed, citizens around the world found their individual and collective voices to topple dictatorships and demand better lives for themselves and future generations. What comes next remains to be seen but these revolutions even empowered individuals not touched directly by the uprisings.

Technical Review 110

Technical Review India Mobile Hockey Stick 110

OnlyOnce

JANUARY 2, 2011

But still, the subject doesn’t always translate as well to the average entrepreneur as microeconomics does – most business people have good intuitive understandings of supply, demand, and pricing. We all have access to more tools to self-manage productivity than we used to. Here’s my basic example over the past 10 years.

China 74

China Startup Offshore Silicon Valley 74

Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia’s share of the world’s Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%. And an environment that encourages and demands learning and constant improvement of people and processes. Pursue Global Markets. 7 Companies in China have raised more than $1 billion in an IPO this year.

Africa 104

Africa Brazil China India 104

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2011

No one would call Carly Fiorina, the head of Hewlett Packard from 1999 to 2005, a wilting lily. Manage time and priorities. It’s hard to balance the continual demands of the business, personal relationships, and home life. Others foresee just the opposite. On this one, it’s easy to spot the ones with passion, from either gender.

Networking 226

Networking Leadership Demand Entrepreneur 226

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

If you manage to kill an elephant they have so much meat they’ll feed you for a long time. On some level we felt we did because being a SaaS company in 1999 was trailblazing. Deer are not so big that they can make huge demands on you for your development resources or customer support. They take special tools.

Startup 389

Startup Early Stage Demand Channel 389

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2011

An old market adage states that the best time to buy something is when no one else wants it, the general thought being that demand comes in cycles. He has over 30 years of experience in executive management, corporate governance and business development. Like the weather, if you wait long enough, things will change for the better.

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Cleveland Matching Small Business Government 145

Ben's Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

After raising our first round of funding for Loudcloud in 1999, we went to visit our new venture capital firm and meet their full team. We’ve built relationships with over 4,000 engineers, designers and product managers, and we’ve made more than 1,300 introductions to our portfolio companies, resulting in 130 hires within the portfolio.

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Venture Capital Portfolio Cofounder Partner 78

thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Like him, many retail investors were drawn into nonstop television coverage and headlines that were (to me, scarily) reminiscent of 1999. Yesterday, UK investment firm Ruffer Investment Management revealed it was holding over $700M in BTC. He had long ago sold his BTC at a loss and forgotten about it.

SEC 45

SEC Valuation Institutional Investors Global 45

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2010

No one would call Carly Fiorina, the head of Hewlett Packard from 1999 to 2005, a wilting lily. Manage time and priorities. It’s hard to balance the continual demands of the business, personal relationships, and home life. Others foresee just the opposite. On this one, it’s easy to spot the ones with passion, from either gender.

Entrepreneur 121

Entrepreneur Leadership Networking Demand 121

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

With that implicit assumption, startups hire a VP of Sales with a great rolodex and call on established mainstream companies while marketing creates a brand and buzz to create demand and drive it into the sales channel (web, direct salesforce, etc.) In 1996 no potential customer had even heard of a Personal Digital Assistant. make-or-break.

Customer Development 196

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 196

Diego Basch

JUNE 2, 2012

One fine day in June of 1999 I was sitting at my desk, writing code, in the zone. In 1999 it was common practice to print the employee roster every week (including phone extensions) and distribute it to everyone. Clearly there wasn’t enough demand. It was crazy. My phone rang, I picked up. Still, I listened to the pitch.

IPO 62

IPO Argentina Stock .Net 62

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Service includes integrated Google Analytics, SEO tools, and on-demand customer service. billion back in 1999 ; Yahoo has since shutdown Geocities after failing to charge all its users to use the service. Yahoo tried charging the entire Geocities user base in one fell swoop, and managed to ruin a three billion dollar investment.

Coder 87

Coder Angel Investor Web Bootstrapping 87

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

A few of the detailed case studies include: Tech legend Bill Gross building an MVP in 1999 to test demand for online car sales, which grew into CarsDirect.com. Therefore, we needed a new management toolkit designed explicitly for iteration, scientific learning, and rapid experimentation.

Lean 167

Lean Entrepreneur Agile San Francisco 167

Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The laws of supply and demand, and marginal pricing, withstand the test of time. Demand matters: IPOs are a bull market product Gauging demand for an IPO can be difficult, in part because so many IPO order books are over-subscribed. The tl;dr: It’s Economics 101.

IPO 36

IPO Securities and Exchange Commission Demand SEC 36

YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2012

All businesses begin with a specific idea in mind, and although some stick to exactly what they started with, it’s much more common to find that a business has grown and evolved over time to keep up with changes in supply, demand, and even resource availability. In 1999, Goodrich became the No. billion in September 2011.

Mississippi 209

Mississippi San Francisco Minnesota Bankruptcy 209

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Prior to crowdSPRING, I was producer and production manager in the film and television industry and Ross was an attorney in private practice specializing in intellectual property. In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. Thanks to Mike Samson, crowdSPRING. #3 3 – I was Fired Twice.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Australia Software Review LLC 48

Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

Having been founded in 1999, Zilliant is hard to categorize as a startup anymore. The company creates the leading software in an enterprise niche called pricing optimization and margin management. This financial commitment from our investors will help us capitalize on increased market demand, and accelerate our market lead.”.

Balance Sheet 67

Balance Sheet Private Equity LP IPO 67

Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

This time, the debate centers on the “favored few” Social Media venture backed companies that have brought tremendous windfalls to a select group of venture funds and management teams, both pre- and post-IPO. … We have a stock market that works for one kind of buzzy (Demand Pull) stock but is a disaster for the rest of the economy. .

Valuation 50

Valuation Social Media Media IPO 50

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Interestingly, the company’s founding vision was not a lean idea, but rather a big idea: to accelerate and manage Internet traffic on a global, highly scalable, highly distributed scale. The company quickly realized that its initial commercial product was in huge demand – they had reached product-market fit nirvana. Founding Akamai.

Distribution 49

Distribution Lean Massachusetts Cofounder 49

Hearpreneur

JUNE 9, 2018

The demand for eco-friendly products continues to rise with the increase in climatic changes. The Pacific is so vast that the shortest crossing lasts around 28 sailing days, yet over time we’ve managed to harm that immensity with all of our castaway, single-use products. As a pioneering CEO in the U.S. We truly are making a difference.

Turkey 49

Turkey France Differentiation Design 49

ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

The concept of “economic moats” came from a 1999 Fortune article by Warren Buffett: The key to investing is [.] When it comes to low-cost production, examples often focus on manufacturing and supply chain management. It is, Rumelt explains, the management of Walmart stores as a network. But demand won’t scale.

Non-Compete 122

Non-Compete United States Networking Acquisition 122

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

App is one step forward, two steps back – In 1999 I launched my first company, BuildOnline, a SaaS-based (back then we were ASP’s) content management platform for large-scale engineering and construction projects. I think Apple has become corrupted and its dominance in mobile is not good for the industry.

Flash 326

Flash Mobile Application Development Cloud 326

Start Up Blog

JUNE 14, 2011

Who would have thought that Apple would be the world biggest music retailer today back in 1999? The market now demands it. Q2: How is social community management being handled within the creative agencies? Users expect we know exactly what they want – they demand it. Probably the later. This is an interesting question.

Social Media 69

Social Media Mobile Security Media 69

Start Up Blog

JUNE 14, 2011

Who would have thought that Apple would be the world biggest music retailer today back in 1999? The market now demands it. Q2: How is social community management being handled within the creative agencies? Users expect we know exactly what they want – they demand it. Probably the later. This is an interesting question.

Media 59

Media Social Media Government Mobile 59

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Tony Hsieh, CEO of online clothing retailer Zappos, has made company culture a focal point in his management style. million in 1999, Zappos is now worth $1 billion. Ferris eventually sold BrainQuicken and became a best-selling author, in-demand blogger, business consultant, motivator, and popular endorser. Outsource services.

Small Business 60

Small Business Non-Compete Europe Philippines 60

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Then they move into demanding a person who demanded excellence of himself and others around him. I mean, there a lot of people that felt absolutely very demanding. Think of it as a mantra in 1998, in a second shareholder letter, or 1999 Yeah. (20:43): They even use remarkably the same words. Don't look at it as a mission.

Seattle 63

Seattle Silicon Valley Conversion Naming 63

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 8, 2020

What the visionary, Milton Friedman, predicted about Bitcoin in 1999. Even before Bitcoin became a reality, visionaries like Milton Friedman were predicting the rise of an internet-version of cash, as long ago as 1999. Once the internet rules, his argument goes, we will trust the currency which it manages.

Iceland 140

Iceland Government Internet Bandwidth 140

BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

" Web 1999/2000. In addition, as enterprises move to a world where they must support multiple users and devices on-demand, they will need to buy new software and infrastructure to manage this new complexity. Critical Mass. GoToMarket Philosophy. If you build it, they will come. Release early and release often. Tech platform.

Web 60

Web API Open Source Business Model 60

Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

How much change will you demand? In a quote that’s often attributed to Charles Darwin – but was in fact a Louisiana State University management professor paraphrasing Darwin in 1963 , “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It had a fancier-sounding title: Product Manager.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Internet Networking Salary 69

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. These include building products, recruiting, managing your finances, marketing, selling, getting feedback from customers and … fund raising. People who manage processes make more sales. Test interest.

Developer 366

Developer Silicon Valley PR Las Vegas 366

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Unfortunately after twenty years working such demanding jobs I was no longer able to physically do the work. Since both sets of my parents went through bankruptcy while I was a child, learning about how to manage money became almost an obsession of mine. Photo Credit: Sean Matula. This lead to me needing to find a new career, and fast!

Entrepreneur 63

Entrepreneur Ireland LLC Kansas 63

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. Instawork (*) is an on-demand staffing app for gig workers (professionals) and hospitality businesses (partners). As a result, productivity naturally improves.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Because it wasn’t just the Internet and e-commerce that were trending – prescription prices were soaring and people needed an option to manage the bite. One of my pharmacy contacts was looking at this business model in 1999, and asked for my input,” Thorkelson said. “It Kris Thorkelson: Businesses are like children.

Canada 100

Canada Entrepreneur Syria Internet 100

Growthink Blog

JUNE 19, 2010

What is the future of Pay-Per-View/Video-on-Demand (PPV and VOD)? Video-on-demand alone is estimated to grow from a $1.1 Get The Answers I am very excited to share with you the opportunity to meet the Managing Director of Growthink's new media and entertainment practice, Mr. Lee Muhl. Has the U.S.

Los Angeles 76

Los Angeles Silicon Valley Technical Review IP 76