ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

In contrast to “distribution-first content,” movement-first content is a conscious sacrifice of reach: “it isn’t beholden to any SEO tactics like word count and keyword density.” Managing an already-popular term is a struggle some companies wish they had. Getting there requires patience, internal buy-in, and supporting content.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto , Market Types « “Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch Closure » 21 Responses Tweets that mention Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development « Steve Blank -- Topsy.com , on November 16, 2009 at 7:20 am Said: [.]

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

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. At that point I was a few years into my career and working as a project manager at Apple.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. Receive and manage newsletters. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. Managing Creativity. Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. CDW your 1-stop resource for configuration, activation & distribution.

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Now Fortune has obtained more granular data, including returns for dotcom-era funds managed by such firms as Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, General Catalyst Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Overall, the fund-of-funds is 97% called for 45 funds raised between 1999 and 2002. Posted in: Venture Capital.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Disruption in the Education Space: When I first started looking at education technology investments in 1999, very few VCs would go near the sector. Universities are also creating more interdisciplinary programs in order to encourage this collaboration. What’s Next in 2012…. The Indians have a term for this: jugaad.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

to build the satellite office and to personally oversee the recruitment and management of American executives who can lead the sales and marketing efforts. According to Modi Rosen, general partner of Magma Ventures, “The challenge of scaling is primarily in hiring for the sales and marketing front. However, waiting to move to the U.S.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

This from a man who knows from having made bigger investments that are smaller : Duncan Davidson, Managing Director of Menlo Park-based Bullpen Capital. They all went away; they got rolled up in 1999 and 2000 into these too-big-to-fail banking operations," Davidson tells us. Brown & Sons, Montgomery Securities.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

It’s called Enterprise Performance Management, which is kind of a weird term. That’s a really big deal, because that category of software, line managers and businesses have never actually used that software themselves. Actually — we have another one actually that is — well, it sounds esoteric, but it actually is very relevant.

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Diego Basch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

In the words of Fred Wilson: VCs are professional money managers. We are provided capital to invest as long as we can return it to our investors with a strong return in a reasonable amount of time. Pretty much all of them admitted that they would party like it’s 1999 if they could get a few million out of their startups.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Shortly after we sold Opsware to Hewlett-Packard, I had a conversation with the legendary venture capitalist Doug Leone of Sequoia Capital. Coworking Spaces - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , September 2, 2010 I've never been much of a fan of incubators. Except they won’t be called Product Managers.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

These mutual funds “mark-to-market” every day, and fund managers are compensated periodically on this performance. About this same point in time, the journalists that focus specifically on the venture capital industry noted something quite profound. In 1999, record valuations coexisted with record IPOs and shareholder liquidity.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

For example, distribution to find new apps in a mobile Internet is tightly locked down by the oligopoly of Apple and Google. Distribution of media is tightly controlled by YouTube, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon and a handful of others. Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat. Enter the decentralized Internet.

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