Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

It was the first company to do “paid search&# back when Larry & Sergey were saying they would never do it. They want to monetize the Twitter stream via contextual search matching. But Twitter.com (which will likely improve dramatically on UI, I’m guessing) will be the main event for Twitter search.

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A Crowded Space

JANUARY 17, 2019

There are millions of chess players in the world, and I believe the vast majority of serious players know their ELO ranking and also know exactly what it means to be 1000, 1500, or 2000. Just need to graph out the distribution curve of feedback and grade people according to a standard deviation. People should be graded on a curve.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. For example, Coke added snack foods, which could be distributed through its existing distribution channels. Thank you for the kind introduction. Now look around.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 28, 2005

There is obviously lots of innovation happening in the search space. Luckily, I have 2 portfolio companies that I respectively invested in during 1999 and 2000 which survived the nuclear winter and are having an opportunity to contribute to this innovation by helping make search better and easier for users.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 16, 2018

So I started my own law firm, rather than going through what I feared would be a humiliating job search, filled with other candidates who had followed a more traditional path. One thing led to another, and my husband and I ended up getting an exclusive distribution contract in Canada for a major French brand. I always loved languages.

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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 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. That is quite a bit of supplemental income for U.S.-based

Internet 88

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

How do you deal with a severely uneven distribution of investment success between individuals or groups of partners? My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. Should there be a notion of “founder equity” for those individuals who put in the hard work to start a firm and build the brand? Previous Entries.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. In April of 2000 there were fears that the AOL / Time Warner merger would create a monopoly on the Internet.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Jeff Bezos’s private space technology company Blue Origin was founded back in 2000. Build systems and processes that enable your team to create and distribute content seamlessly. Take search-oriented creative agency Rise at Seven. In 2002, Elon Musk created Space X. With enough resources, products can always be copied.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Reporting in the Harvard Business Review on a major study of growth stalls they conducted, Olson and his colleagues cite the case of the iconic brand Levi Strauss, which hit a historic high mark of sales in 1995, reaching revenue of $7 billion, but then, starting in 1996, saw a decline in sales so precipitous that by 2000, revenue was down to $4.6

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble. The world of building profitable startups ended in 1995. Wide Adoption. Facebook, Android/Apple App store.)

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The most common example of distribution and information based scarcity used in luxury is one most brands should implement without exception: the “limited quantities available” message. As a quick recap, there are 4 main types of luxury buyers: People who buy luxury in search of an authentic experience, to distinguish themselves from others.

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Ben's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

The challenge is building, maintaining, and distributing integrations for every pair-wise set of every version of every application in the world. Today, only 8 months after launch, the SnapStore has 63 supported snaps representing around 2000 integrations. The Metaphor King and his breakthrough approach.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 3, 2015

The core of inbound is this: create valuable content for your prospects and put it in places (on social media, websites, publications, and search terms) where they hang out. The content creation and distribution aspects of inbound get most of the attention. you can check out a more complete definition here.).

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

Similarly, Google, well on its way to owning the dominant smart phone operating system and which maintains a near monopoly position in search, trades at a price/earnings (P/E) ratio (ex-cash) of around 13.7. In the last bubble, the S&P hit 44x in January 2000. But this is still hardly a bubble multiple. The internet is working.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. The only other ways to get discovered was to have good organic search results or to get covered by a major blog site. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. And covered we did. Folksonomy. Free product.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. echoes Labay’s sentiment: Search habits change. Managers can defy old mind-sets and creatively search for superior solutions. Image source ). Email habits change.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. My bet is that they fold A9 (their search tool) into AWS and offer search-as-a-service, too. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure. At least in the consumer & business web.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

A quick check on “sales enablement” worldwide Google search trends shows that it is still a steadily rising trend: With the popularity come a proliferation of different tools. A 2015 global study of 2000 B2B buyers and sellers by Accenture shows that B2B buyers have high expectations for engagement. Types of sales enablement tools.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

The year was 2000, and the hardest part about the AdWords project was simply getting agreement that they could work on it. And the engineers, which had been working so hard to provide highly relevant search results, were undersandably very worried that users would be confused and frustrated by ads getting in the way of their search results.

Product 60

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

View All Search Results » Subscribe. 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. The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. SmartMoney.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. In the past ten years there have been several dramatic changes in venture capital.

Silicon Valley 74

Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

Brandanew

JANUARY 4, 2016

Remember, most blogs and content efforts fail because while content gets created, there’s no community to distribute it to. Your initial 2000 or so accounts are free. You can run a quick search for free. So blogging and community development must go hand in hand. More: Top DIY Marketing Tools. for registrations.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Real-time search engine. Search leverages selective filtering via XMPP versus site indexing; only real-time search player to do so. Diverse search results include stream updates, blog posts, news articles, photos, videos (versus Twitter/FaceBook1 only). Founded in 2000 in New Brunswick, NJ. 406 Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

They never did any PR or marketing to get their videos to first get shown on the news during the 2000 election. JibJab has an ad model that relied on exclusive distribution deals with the big portals. Gregg talks in the video about how they went in search of a business model and how they found one. It changed everything.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Does the photo look like something taken on a mobile phone from 2000? Digital marketers and experts around the world say that content SaaS startups should spend an average of 50% resources on strategic content distribution. High search volume and low keyword difficulty are crucial to building your content pillars.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 13, 2017

Sometimes called “Gen Y”, millennials are the much sought after generation born between 1980 and 2000. They have huge advantages in procurement, distribution, and manufacturing, as well as sales and marketing advantages. Millennials.

Small Business 53

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

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. The percentage is the 12/31/11 portfolio value (including cumulative distributions) divided by the called capital. Accel Partners VII (2000): 122% (97%).

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

I advise my clients that you offer stock only after youve searched your heart and soul and cant come up with a way to pay with anything else," says Thomas H. Copyright © 2000 inc.com. CDW your 1-stop resource for configuration, activation & distribution. Should you use equity to pay for professional services? "I Select Services.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. Yet despite literally patenting ride-hailing in 2000, his own venture, Sidecar, lost out to the more aggressive scaling of Uber and Lyft.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

By the year 2000, the global market for personal computers exceeded 140 million units a year. In the 25 years between 1975 and 2000, there were hundreds of brands of personal computers introduced in the American market. Google owns “search.” ” That’s exactly how brands are built.

Silicon Valley 96

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

We’re going to talk about some of the findings from what, I think, is a somewhat massive undertaking that takes the form of an eBook called The State of Engagement: Insights on Engagement from 2000 Global Consumers and Marketers. So Karen, thanks for joining me. Karen Steele: Thank you, John. Happy to be here. John Jantsch: Awesome.

Channel 45

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Agile VC

MAY 23, 2012

We now only think about “electricity” companies in the narrowest of senses… the small number of businesses (relative to the overall impact of electricity in the economy) that are actually in the business of generating and distributing electrical current. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 23, 2012

The largest total amount of venture capital released to educational technology companies within one year is $534 million, reached in the year 2000. When those services and products are being distributed for free, it makes paying the bills even harder.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

As we all know, the last ten years has seen a near-total collapse of the innovation cost curve, thanks to the perfect storm of open-source, cloud infrastructure, and “free” global distribution via search, social and app stores. It’s no coincidence that these two developments have come together.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 18, 2013

Fast-loading sites perform better on all fronts: better user experience, higher conversions, more engagement, even higher search rankings. Only 25% of the Alexa 2000 uses a CDN. look at the Distributions tab to see page load speed distributions). Website speed matters. Yours can be different. Pretty useful stuff.

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