Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

I’ve been working with Matt since 2000. The two companies did the same thing and were the only two competitors in a nascent category called “email change of address” (Veripost’s original name was IECOA which stood for “Internet Email Change of Address”). Fred Wilson was his lead investor.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 25, 2012

I got an email from an entrepreneur on Saturday. He described his new business in the words of his last successful business, which exited in 2000. We’ve been looking for a new TV series to watch since we burned out on Mad Men – I guess it won’t be this one. Back to The Formula.

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View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2016

After receiving 50 responses from the college website, 500 from the developer-focused job board, and 2000 from the national job board, you find two candidates worth interviewing from each source. Some of the best candidate leads come from startups proactively reaching out to people through LinkedIn or email.

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Anonymity is the new black: You may remember in the early commercial web era – post 1993, we all had alias names and emails before we felt comfortable enough to convert to our actual human self on line. Email & text on the comeback trail: The inbox has made a comeback for me. It seems now that anonymity is back.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

The A round was done in February 2000 (end of the bull market) and my B round was done in April 2001 (bear market). Second – don’t send unsolicited emails to VCs. I explain in the video what happened in my first company (e.g. on the entrepreneur side of the table) when I raised at too high of a price.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

By the time everyone learned to use a mouse, handle a phone, use a computer, and send email, the market had become much bigger, and less tech savvy users started to use technology in everyday life. In 1995, I was the only one of my friends using email and there were no cell phones. A look at how CMS evolved.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

While you dialed AOL to get on the Internet, the goal of AOL was to keep you locked into their proprietary content and thus earned the classification of “walled garden.&# They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. And now they want to revolutionize email.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John (00:08): Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. John (04:23): Yeah, we had a 2000 page site that we did just that to 1400 pages and immediately lifted their results. This is John Jantsch. My guest today is Stephan Spencer. John (23:20): Nice.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Shervin Pishevar, another person who I respect wrote the following on Twitter, “ Saying you don’t like @AngelList is like saying you don’t like Email. As Shervin said, it’s just email. I have now put a filter on my email so it is auto-filed in Gmail. It’s a communication tool. My personal use.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 19, 2023

Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast was brought to you by the MarTech Podcast, hosted by my friend Ben Shapiro, is brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals with episodes you can listen to in under 30 minutes.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Even the most basic levels of automation, such as sending marketing emails and responding to incoming emails, can be handled by an automation system. Imagine printing off 2000 documents, only to find they needed repeating due to a quality failure. If a job is carried out slowly and poorly, it will often need to be repeated.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 1, 2023

Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Nudge, hosted by Phil Agnew, and it's brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals. Drag and drop your way to attention grabbing emails and landing pages.

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OnlyOnce

APRIL 1, 2021

Even as a 20-something first-time CEO years ago, I was deeply skeptical of the value of a Coach, but that was in 1999 or 2000 when coaches weren’t so commonplace. I’ll start this post with a quick argument in favor of CEO Coaches and Mentors (sometimes called Advisors).

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

You can conduct quick usability tests with internal experts and customers on prototyped marketing content: emails, landing pages, ads, etc.,” The initial 12,000 followers generated during that campaign have since grown to an email list of 20,000. Some people don’t like emails, some will respond to LinkedIn or Facebook.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 22, 2018

All before ever opening my computer or email. To get this award knowing there are 2000 speakers in this group, is a great honor to me. . I read scripture, pray, and meditate. After, I hit the gym to get my body going. I then eat breakfast and spend time with my family. That’s ultra-important in any business.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

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. Now In Print!

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

Infonautics went public in 1996 and Half.com was sold to eBay in 2000. It is possible to submit a plan through email but it is not the best approach. Prior to First Round Capital, Howard had invested in two of Josh’s companies Infonautics Corp. and Half.com. A few deals have been funded through this program.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Remembering the insanity before 2000. But, when the bubble burst in 2000, most of us quickly grew up. Email users, continue here… ] That is the quandary which entrepreneurs face today in building models for new companies around a web presence. And the numbers were staggering. Microsoft paid $9.00 AOL paid $40.00

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Since Keiretsu Forum’s founding in 2000, its members have invested over $180M in 200 companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, and real estate. It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 60,000 members around the world.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 12, 2010

We took a simple problem (when server rooms get hot, the gear fails) and provided a simple solution (thermometer with a web page that emails/pages you if it's too hot). They were the disruptors, but they didn't profit from the disruption. There were many competitors, both huge (APC with $1.5

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 19, 2019

Design Effective Email Signups. However, making people sign up the email list is not an easy task. As per statistics collected from 2016, there are many blogs, over 30 million which run an email list campaign. With so much already existing, there are chances that your email signup may be lost. Collect Your Traffic.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

” Mobile device owners must review each of their email and social networking applications to ensure encryption (HTTPS) is used for the entire session, but it is best to avoid open Wi-Fi hotspots whenever possible. Use a mobile security application to protect against mobile malware and lost or stolen devices. formerly CA).

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ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

Lead/Meeting intelligence: Allow teams to mine important information about a lead from the very basic (email ID, phone numbers) to complex information (common professional connections, news mentions, job changes etc). Email/Calling productivity: Help improve first contact efficiency typically while prospecting. Outbound prospecting.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

In early 2000, the diffusion of Personal Computers transformed the way users made decisions and the paradigm buyer/seller changed again. We’re now at the point where you can see an automated “personal email” from a mile away. While the MQL model asks first “What’s the email of this contact? Image Source.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

All the way from 1993 to 2000. The only skill they have is to send emails,” said Deshpande. But this was a time-consuming job not meant for their internal IT departments. Enter outsourcing. Enter India. Image via JES AZNAR/AFP/Getty Images. This is when the IT sector saw a real spurt in activity,” Deshpande said. They have no skills.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Just ask anybody who was trying to close funding the fateful week of September 11, 2001 or even March 2000. Enter the famous Sequoia “RIP Good Times” presentation and Ron Conway’s publicly leaked emails calling for big slashes in burn rates.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Web sites already offer the option of logging in with Facebook or creating an account with an email address and password. In 2000, we launched a loyalty program for a bank in Turkey, Akbank. I used to think that the success of my last startup was due to our software quality, thought leadership, patents, etc.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In 2021, the startup landscape looks much different than it did in 2000. Gmail has also changed a lot since it was first introduced in 2004, with the most significant change being that now emails are automatically archived and deleted after 30 days. For starters, there are more startups. What’s behind this boom?

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

workers in 2017, up from just over 3% in 2000. Outsource low-value tasks, like email and calendar management, to a virtual assistant; use freelance contractors to complete discrete tasks, such as scheduling social media posts and composing new content for your business blog. You can’t do it all.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 14, 2019

Since the site formed in 2000, they’ve paid out well over £50 million in extra cash to their users in return for their feedback, so they aren’t short on money- and they aren’t shy about giving it out to you either. So now for one of the more commonly asked questions regarding the site; is InboxDollars legit?

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Berkonomics

APRIL 9, 2020

And these are indeed strange times, especially if you haven’t lived through 2000-2002 and 2007-2008 recessions and difficulty in finding money from banks and investors. Email readers, continue here… ] So, the truth of the statement is self-evident. The simple economic truth. Here is a simple economic truth.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

So, for example, if there were 2000 impressions on your advert and 25 clicks this would work out as a 1.25% click-through rate. If you wanted it to grow your mailing list a conversion would be someone giving you their email address. The click-through rate helps you to determine how appealing your advertising campaign has been.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 3, 2015

And when you opt-in for one of their many whitepapers, software demos, or free tools on their site, you’ll start receiving information via email that educates you on the benefits of their products. It’s extremely high quality and it’s everywhere: they check the box for both quality and quantity of content.

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Ben's Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

We have a very high churn rate, but as soon as we turn on email marketing to our user base, people will come back” – Yes, of course. When the facts don’t align with the good news, a clever manager will find the narrative to make everybody feel better—until the next meeting. “We

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gigaom.com

JULY 10, 2012

Developers that exceed that amount will be charged $20 for each 2000-point increment, which works out to about 1 cent per transaction. Email address. Notify me of follow-up comments via email. Email Kevin Fitchard. Image courtesy Flickr user Lazurite. Related research and analysis from GigaOM Pro: Subscriber content.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 13, 2022

So I'm really fortunate to get emails from readers telling me what's working, but also what's not working. And we've now over a thousand student, over 2000 students, I've gone through that program. Sign up to receive email updates. Enter your name and email address below and I'll send you periodic updates about the podcast.

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