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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down. Yahoo would hit $104/share in March 2000 with a market cap of $104 billion.) The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000.

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The 4 Phases For Developing A Customer Retention Strategy

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In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. million in 2004 to $6.5 Of course, you could always work backwards to find the source(s) of the problem too… Do You Understand Why Your Customers are Leaving? image source. image source.

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How To Develop Your Customer Retention Strategy

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In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. million in 2004 to $6.5 Of course, you could always work backwards to find the source(s) of the problem too… Do You Understand Why Your Customers are Leaving? image source. image source.

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The 4 Phases For Developing A Customer Retention Strategy

ConversionXL

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. million in 2004 to $6.5 Of course, you could always work backwards to find the source(s) of the problem too… Do You Understand Why Your Customers are Leaving? image source. image source.

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The 4 Phases For Developing A Customer Retention Strategy

ConversionXL

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. million in 2004 to $6.5 Of course, you could always work backwards to find the source(s) of the problem too… Do You Understand Why Your Customers are Leaving? image source. image source.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

Founded in 2000 by Stephen Kaufer and Langley Steinert, Boston-based TripAdvisor is a travel website that provides reviews and other information for consumers about travel destinations around the world. In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

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declined Microsoft’s offer (summer 2000) to be the first enterprise software company with a.NET product (a Microsoft employee came back from a follow-up meeting with Allen and said “He reminds me of a lot of CEOs of companies that we’ve worked with… that have gone bankrupt.”). During this year they.