ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

You see, the current structure of the modern marketing stack leads to a large amount of data fragmentation. A Brief History of Marketing Technology Software. How their product leaders and CMOs embrace the change adjusting product/marketing strategies based on new technologies. Contact Management: The Beginning.

Customer 92

Customer Marketing Artificial Inteligence Clickthrough 92

Lightspeed Venture Partners

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Over a coffee in a small office in Cupertino (yes, their name is related to their founding hometown), we talked about how it was the right time to build a new networking company due to the confluence of three major trends: cloud, software defined networking (SDN), and the consumerization of IT.

Networking 144

Networking Technical Review Cloud Software Review 144

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Market – [link]. Related posts: Twitter Link Roundup #138 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More. Hold the wires – [link].

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Start Up Blog

AUGUST 1, 2019

Here’s the Sammatron definition: The implementation of better solutions to meet existing market desires, new market requirements, and even unarticulated needs. Only one of which, was on the list in 1999 – that being Microsoft. But, they have become an invasive species. The list is very long indeed.

Technical Review 67

Technical Review Software Review Government Algorithm 67

Up and Running

MAY 20, 2019

There’s a famous scene in the cult-classic 1999 movie “ Office Space “ where the main character, Peter, is confronted by his boss, Bill. Where possible, be specific with names. The primary personas are traditionally created for end users/consumers of your business—your target market.

Business Plan 92

Business Plan Angel Investor Partner Naming 92

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. He later changed the name to Facebook. million.

Initial Public Offering 277

Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 277

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

One of our core tasks was “market analysis,&# which consistent of: market sizing, market forecasts, competitive analysis and then instructing customers on which direction to take. In 1999 I was in Japan doing a strategy project for the board of directors of Sony. And then they market the F out of that result.

Investment Bankers 415

Investment Bankers Mobile Software Review Japan 415

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2010

We learned this weekend that it was named after his East Hampton home. Get your product/market fit working before you ramp up your costs (or raise too much money). And market your brand, not your personality. I’m typing this from the lawn of Alan Patricof’s “Greycroft” home in East Hampton – my first time in the Hamptons.

PR 279

PR Technical Review Portfolio Customer Development 279

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

While many of my friends bragged about their 5 condos in Florida I kept talking about how the real estate market was in a bubble – their gains an illusion. above inflation yet in many markets in the US & Europe prices were rising at 10-25% per year. We jockey to make sure the press release has our names on it.

Florida 299

Florida Technical Review San Antonio Los Angeles 299

Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Instead of crying in their beers about it, Cotter and Tom Ball at Austin Ventures decided what to do next and came up with Small Ponds, which later became Whale Shark Media and then RetailMeNot (named after its largest digital property). No matter the name?—?the The market for the product simply wasn’t a good one.

B2C 51

B2C Austin Cofounder IPO 51

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 6, 2015

Unusual, unique and eye-catching marketing campaigns are often pursued in an attempt to become separate from the herd. Treading new marketing ground can be risky with no previous evidence or case studies to research – however sometimes it does pay off. Others branding case study marketing' Image credit: www.portigal.com ].

Campaign 100

Campaign Haiti Marketing Oregon 100

ithacaVC

OCTOBER 30, 2014

There are actually four people named on the IP and it was a multi-disciplinary project…This was the first product to come out of our department.”. A faculty member doesn’t have the time to think about market opportunities and the time frame required to move through the business model process.”.

Technical Review 65

Technical Review Technology Software Review IP 65

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. My company name is 3 Leaf Tea. The name is from when tea leaves get picked there’s often one two or three leaves and a bud.

Naming 98

Naming Entrepreneur Green LLC 98

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

As a self-made entrepreneur and former chairman of Diamond Resorts International, he asserts that the five biggest companies by market value today, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple, aren’t really tech, but hospitality companies. Cloobeck, “ Checking In: Hospitality-Driven Thinking, Business, and You ”.

Artificial Inteligence 205

Artificial Inteligence Reputation Viral America 205

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Basically, employees purchase their own individual policies on the open market (a purchase frequently offset by government subsidies), and employers reimburse them. You can attract these employers by emphasizing your familiarity with the individual market and your experience working with defined contribution solutions.

Software Review 224

Software Review Employee Retention Government 224

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

Back in 1999 when I first raised venture capital I had zero knowledge of what a fair term sheet looked like or how to value my company. Due to competitive markets we ended up with a pretty good term sheet until we needed to raise money in April 2001 and then we got completely screwed. No gotchas. No option pool shuffle.

Valuation 405

Valuation Liquidation Preference Pre-Money Valuation Term Sheet 405

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. It became a huge kerfuffle with many VC partners writing to thank me for the post, which exposed those that gave their industry a bad name. And then I was mortified – Valleywag figured out which firm had treated me the worst and published their names. It got worse.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Exclusive: Returns for brand-name VC funds By Dan Primack August 20, 2012: 12:15 PM ET. The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001. Accel Partners VII (1999): 89% (74%). Market Movers.

Naming 49

Naming Term Sheet Private Equity Equity 49

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. He later changed the name to Facebook. million.

Initial Public Offering 297

Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 297

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Instead, the driver was the 1983 bull market. Put a willing and forgiving exit market following any investment period and you get spectacular returns. For many years preceding 1999, the 1982 vintage was known as the industry’s worst vintage year. I knew them all, because we all knew each other in this era. This isn’t true.

Venture Capital 70

Venture Capital SBIC Technical Review Silicon Valley 70

Pascal's View

JULY 1, 2014

Can you name five benign dictators who have ruled successfully for any meaningful period of time (non-fiction)? Can you name five successful, long serving CEO’s (excluding Warren Buffett ) whose governance histories are free of the “high-beta” associated with outliers such as Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs ? It’s not easy.

Government 62

Government Technical Review Venture Capital Leadership 62

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

Some wait 5-7 years but usually this is because it’s proving more difficult to raise a new fund due to market conditions or the lack of returns in their current fund. Fred Wilson also wrote a sophisticated analysis of why he believes the market must normalize to smaller amount of money going into VC firms.

Venture Capital 269

Venture Capital Balance Sheet Early Stage Software Review 269

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. He later changed the name to Facebook. million.

Initial Public Offering 148

Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 148

ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

Inbound marketing. Conversational marketing. In retrospect, brand-owned terms feel inevitable: What could modern marketing be other than inbound marketing? What is clear is the close tie between the rise of term usage and brand awareness: Brand Brand-Owned Term Correlation in Search Interest HubSpot “inbound marketing” 0.82

Naming 119

Naming Conversion Flash Cofounder 119

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Before this, it was housed, since inception in 1999, within the walls of ATI, where the Wi-Fi Alliance and ATI built a unique, collaborative relationship. In its decade-long trek to making Wi-Fi ® a household name, the Wi-Fi Alliance has certified more than 9,000 products for Wi-Fi usage and cross-brand interoperability.

Incubator 54

Incubator Technical Review Austin Texas 54

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

No matter whether you run a blog, a SaaS business, an eCommerce store or any other company that sends emails you will be able to learn something from the tips below and apply them to your own email marketing strategies! It’s always good to be think about email marketing in context. Subject line like it’s 1999!

Email 114

Email Customer HTML Campaign 114

Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

Despite Kenya has been named as the fasted growing payments market in Africa, there is still a lot to be done to develop the local business angel community. He has extensive experience working in Kenya’s tech industry, having founded Wananchi Online in 1999.

Kenya 45

Kenya Africa Incubator Cofounder 45

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

I was reading an article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. He later changed the name to Facebook. million.

Entrepreneur 263

Entrepreneur Initial Public Offering California .Net 263

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

The product development model treats all startups like they are in an Existing Market – an established market with known customers. They never understood Market Type. Why does Market Type matter? Other companies in the 1999 PDA market were Palm, the original innovator, as well Microsoft and Hewlett Packard.

Customer Development 203

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 203

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

I was reading an article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. He later changed the name to Facebook. million.

Initial Public Offering 295

Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 295

Venture Chronicles

SEPTEMBER 11, 2010

Twitter provides publishers with several key advantages over RSS, namely the ability to control brand and force traffic back to their monetized site. Simply put, there is no market for RSS. A month before Steve published his post I wrote a post that remains one of the most popular pieces I have written to date.

RSS 58

RSS Aggregator Acquisition Audience 58

YoungUpstarts

MAY 4, 2012

Launched in December 2011, these pillow covers come with names like Louie the Lion, Izzy the Unicorn, Barry the Bear, Kit the Cat, Max the Dog, and Donn the Dinosaur, in the name of helping a child to sleep. As a child growing up, Sharone would attend trade shows with his father, which sparked his interest in the product industry.

Distribution 145

Distribution Naming Small Business Product 145

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

AUGUST 27, 2011

Hahaha, I laugh because later in his talk he mentions another website with a long name. One idea that never took off was NameMyThingey.com where you can crowdsource business names. People would get 50-100 name recommendations and be indecisive and not choose a name after all. Alright back to the talk.

EC2 53

EC2 Social Network Distribution Demand 53

Growthink Blog

AUGUST 29, 2010

stock market performance and the drumbeat of negativity that passes as business reporting these days has been the massive growth in U.S. By way of anecdote, from the time Dave Lavinsky and I founded Growthink in 1999 through 2008, more than 95% of our firm’s clients and investors were U.S. Almost completely shrouded in the anemic U.S.

Small Business 81

Small Business South Korea South Africa Uruguay 81

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 15, 2010

In 1999 I was working in the London offices of Andersen Consulting. I had been working on marketing & strategy initiatives for European telcos for the past several years helping them to think through and design Internet offerings. Both Tyler & I are Nihon -files.

San Francisco 379

San Francisco Europe Japan Switzerland 379

Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Pursue Global Markets 2. Pursue Global Markets. 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%. trillion, by 2020, equivalent to bringing a whole new market the size of Brazil online. These are fantastic new markets for U.S.

Africa 104

Africa Brazil China India 104

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

If you take a snapshot during an extraordinary surge in valuations, M&A activity, IPOs and thus wealth creation you’d echo John Doerr’s famous quote from 1999 that, “The Internet is the greatest legal creation of wealth in history.&# As a market we seem to be incapable of temperance. It’s marketing.

IPO 391

IPO Finance Valuation Naming 391