David Teten

JANUARY 8, 2013

PEHub just posted this guest article: Can professional investors use social media? Or, is social media strictly for teenagers and staying in touch with your friends? Fewer private equity funds are using social media for outreach, but 2xPartners , Healthpoint Capital , and MCM Capital Partners are notable exceptions.

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Back in 1999 when I got my first job in the venture industry I remember having a debate with my boss about the relative importance of product and distribution for startups. Returning to my 1999 debate – product now wins over sales. Indeed, the companies who controlled distribution were often the most profitable of all.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2020

With the success of Facebook and Twitter, I still see new social media startups almost every day, with most destined to fail. Just because you would have loved to have your groceries picked out and delivered, doesn’t mean the mainstream customer was ready for Webvan in 1999. Relying on an old formula for success.

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Documentary of the Year: The Cleaners by Hans Block and Moritz Riesewick is a timely film which investigates the shadowy and disturbing world of content removal from popular social media sites. Another reminder that these are not technology companies but media organisations that are long overdue some serious regulation.

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2012

Sulaiman Sanni and his partner Ben Lamson were both working for Meltwater Group, a large, well known Software as a Service company, Su as a social media consultant and Ben as a sales manager. million in grants to emerging businesses since 1999. Ben Lamson and Sulaiman Sanni, WeDidIt cofounders.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 2, 2018

Whether it’s a shopping app or a social media platform like Instagram, these free experiences provide a valuable service. Since our founding in 1999, we’ve kept consumer choice, permission, and transparency at the center of our business. It is now widely understood that the Internet runs on data. online experience.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 2, 2018

Whether it’s a shopping app or a social media platform like Instagram, these free experiences provide a valuable service. Since our founding in 1999, we’ve kept consumer choice, permission, and transparency at the center of our business. It is now widely understood that the Internet runs on data. online experience.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Austin-based Bazaarvoice , the leader in social commerce, has been aggressively building out an incredible suite of applications, furthered by the launch of Social Commerce Insights, which allows marketers to easily and precisely measure social commerce ROI. Social Commerce Insights: How It Works.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

By day he works on web and social media for HP. The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000. Napster arrived in June, 1999. Apocalypse , near-term science-fiction novels about realistic ways strong AI might emerge. Nine years later, in February 2005, YouTube arrived.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

The viral nature of social media no doubt aided this growth, as did improvements in the online shopping experience. The notion of renting and sharing instead of acquiring fits into the trend towards environmentalism and conscious capitalism and is further powered by social media. And Beyond….

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Out of over 70 companies that we have invested in since 1999, about 20 are in our home city, New York. MCM Capital ( case study ) is a rare example of a lower middle-market private equity fund with a proactive social media strategy. Take advantage of social media and emerging platforms such as AngelList.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 30, 2019

The researchers then analyzed the eye-tracking data to determine how long it took for the students to focus on specific sections of a page—such as the menu , logo, images, and social media icons—before they moved on to another section. Image source ). ZMET Technique In Marketing Research from Taylan Demirkaya.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Or will the convergence of content, internet, mobile applications, games and social media be the onrushing asteroids that will soon destroy the movie dinosaurs? In 1999, Lee joined the Silicon Valley new media content contingent as an Internet-company CEO, and has since founded two innovative Los Angeles media companies.

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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. Social network by IOV Labs, the company behind RSK.

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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. For me Bubble will always be inexorably linked to what went down in 1999 and 2000 in the internet sector.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Businesses that fall under the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999), the Payment Card Industry (PCI), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), and Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 must all have some degree of security awareness training by law.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 19, 2010

Or will the convergence of content, internet, mobile applications, games and social media be the onrushing asteroids that will soon destroy the movie dinosaurs? In 1999, Lee joined the Silicon Valley new media content contingent as an Internet-company CEO, and has since founded two innovative Los Angeles media companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2016

With the success of Facebook and Twitter, I still see new social media startups almost every day, with most destined to fail. Just because you would have loved to have your groceries picked out and delivered, doesn’t mean the mainstream customer was ready for Webvan in 1999. Relying on an old formula for success.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 29, 2010

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. Entertainments in all their wondrous forms – Movies, Video Games, Social Media and Networks (think LinkedIN, Facebook, Twitter). Almost completely shrouded in the anemic U.S.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

million in 1999, Zappos is now worth $1 billion. Go though social network. There is great probability your competition has put up its own social media pages. From a company worth $1.6 See Also: What Defines Your Company Culture? Focus on flexibility of strategy.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2013

In this era of social media, word of mouth means more than ever. Effle joined Vendio in 1999 as one of the first 10 employees. Successful merchants have discovered the value of using e-mail marketing and brand-appropriate coupons to keep continued connections with consumers. Make every sale count.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2015

With the success of Facebook and Twitter, I still see new social media startups almost every day, with most destined to fail. Just because you would have loved to have your groceries picked out and delivered, doesn’t mean the mainstream customer was ready for Webvan in 1999. Relying on an old formula for success.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

After thinking about how much I enjoyed helping her business grow and learning all I could about business structure, marketing, SEO and social media to name a few, I decided to take these new skills and help other small business owners. The life of entrepreneurship is definitely overly glamorized on social media.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 6, 2015

In 1999, eCommerce company, Half.com , turned a $100,000 investment into a $300,000,000 sale. The press, bloggers and social media went crazy for the stunt which combined just enough silliness with a serious message.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

That was in 1999 – we were in fact one of the first food companies to offer e-commerce to consumers. How have you used social media to unite, inspire and converse with your fans? While we’ve run ads on television and in magazines in the past, social media is our primary tool for communicating with our customers.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I use my social media and massive amounts of public outreach to bring awareness to my program (my Instagram grew to 12,000 engaged followers). I was tired of reading about dog food company recalls every time I opened up the news or social media. My oldest son, Coby Joshua, was born with Down syndrome in 1999.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

million on Kickstarter is a perfect example of how venture capital is being complemented by new approaches propelled by social media. Levy should know, in 1999 he founded eHatchery, an Atlanta-based precursor to today’s accelerators. The success of the Pebble watch, which took in a whopping $10.3 Accelerators are also booming.

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

You may think, “But I don’t use social media, and neither do my (conservative, old-school) potential investors!” The reality: you and your target investors are in the social media matrix whether you like it or not. When I was running an Israel-based company in 1999-2001, my location was a significant barrier.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2016

We built some early ecommerce sites around 1999 and back office order processing systems using visual basic for applications (VBA). In the last couple of years as digital marketing has got more complex with social media and content playing an ever larger role I needed a team to help me cover all the bases. I was a developer.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 18, 2012

A great advertisement which I’m putting in the anti-social media category. Here he demonstrates the first ever laptop with wifi way back in 1999. Here’s 3 cool videos that have landed on my desk top that are worth sharing for different reasons. Is of the art of presenting to an audience.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

million … yes that was seed in 1999!) Around this time B2C eCommerce had been dominating the media but the wheels were starting to come off. It kind of reminds me a bit of how “social media experts&# are talking to customers today). Use social media to be sure people are aware of it.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

I’d start by trying to follow them on social media to get to know them a bit, and then reach out with a relevant intro request through LinkedIn. She’s a co-founder of Impact Hub Austin and is passionate about social impact and inclusion. How do you meet them? Most people are surprised how effective cold outreach is.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 18, 2013

However, little variation can keep the suspense (Pine and Gilmore 1999) and continue to surprise. Lean business practices Marketing and branding Small business Social media Strategy Uncategorized loyalty marketing neuroscience retention small business smallbiz startups surprise word of mouth' A few words of caution.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Christopher Fralic is a Managing Partner at First Round Capital’s New York office, and has focused on a number of the firm’s investments in Advertising Technology, Social Media, Ecommerce, Gaming, Mobile and more. Nikhil Kalghatgi, Senior Associate, SoftBank Capital. through the Yahoo! acquisition.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2012

Founded in 1999 by college student Bryn Carey, this ski and snowboard rental and delivery service is used by over 30 ski resorts in locations such as California, Colorado and British Columbia, Canada. The seven finalists for the DREAM BIG Small Business of the Year Award 2012 are: Ski Butlers (Western).

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

Social Media Manager. It was 1999. If you were paying close attention to the rise of Facebook, Instagram, the same deal. Instagram Influencer. None of those jobs existed when I started my own career 30 years ago. Most of them didn’t even emerge until the last decade. So what’s the YouTube or the Facebook of 2020?

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 3, 2016

I had actually developed the logo in 1999 and it is now on the back of my entire product line. I was trying to think of a name for my public relations and social media management agency that was memorable and catchy. It’s my name and people love how the logo is an ambigram of Julie and looks regal and modern.

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