Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 60,000 members around the world. Investors expect you to understand their motivation, respect their time, and show your integrity in all actions.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Inbound marketing service provider HubSpot recently released its first ever State of Inbound Report for Asia – which surveyed some 400 marketing and sales professionals at virtually all levels and across all industries in Asia to compile some of the most comprehensive analysis on online marketing in this part of the world.

Asia 100

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2022

Her previous startup, a real estate tech company, was acquired in 2019. 17:06] What’s been the hardest part from a tech perspective? [18:37] Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! My first two was in real estate tech. 16:42] Are you an engineer or programmer yourself? [17:06] eWebinar.com.

Technical Review 83

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Narayana Murthy pulled a Michael Dell when he called time on his two-year-long retired life and retook charge at Infosys, the Indian information technology (IT) giant he had founded three decades ago in a small apartment with six others. The forecast also predicted that its 2014 sales were going to be equally uncompetitive.

India 165

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. Fund raising (as is much of life) is a sale – pure and simple. As with any sales campaign you need to: Qualify your buyers early so you focus your scarce resources on people likely to buy your product. .

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 12, 2010

That phrase died during the tech-bubble along with "portal" and "think outside the box," yet the concept has returned. It's hard to think of disruptive technologies or products that didn't take many millions of dollars to implement. It's hard to explain" should not be a standard part of your sales pitch. Don't follow along.

Technical Review 243

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

One of the greatest threats to long-term success is when companies aren’t vigilant enough about responding to the changes in their market—whether it’s by failing to spot product or channel fatigue, acknowledge new competition, make needed updates to products or marketing adjustments in a timely fashion, or embrace new technology coming online.

Technical Review 127

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down.

Silicon Valley 233

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Dan is an entrepreneur, and angel investor and became a highly sought-after coach in the SaaS industry and founder of SaaS academy after exiting three technology companies within a ten-year period. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! It's like, oh, if I just start now for two hours and work on my email, be productive.

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abovethecrowd.com

AUGUST 23, 2020

Twenty years ago, each investment bank had massive sales teams which were 10X larger than they are today. On an IPO, these commissioned sales executives would “hit the phones” to help make a deal successful (earning commission for each placement). It has also been uncovered in email threads. So what have they been replaced with?

IPO 118

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Look, if you work in sales, wanna learn how to sell or just peek at the latest sales news. Look, if you work in sales, wanna learn how to sell or just peek at the latest sales news. Duct Tape Transcript. And I've gone on a lot of shows like this. That's my show.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 25, 2012

I’ll let The Newsroom run its course for the first season and if it gets great reviews go back and watch it later. 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. Back to The Formula. VCs use The Formula constantly.

Technical Review 137

Technical Review Partner Email Sales 137

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In consumer packaged goods, the benchmark for a “highly successful” product launch is no easy feat: $50 million in first-year sales. Successful demand generation campaigns break down silos between marketing and sales. I see this happen far too often when people submit products to me for review to post on Product Hunt.

Product 110

Product Campaign Acquisition Social Media 110

ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2012

If you run an online store, you’re always trying to boost your sales. You *technically could* have an ecommerce site with just images, and no product descriptions (I don’t recommend it). The best sales copy is full, complete information. Technical info is provided too. Have a section for sales and specials.

eCommerce 134

eCommerce Conversion Software Review Technical Review 134

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Prominent section for sales and specials. Around 60% say they are looking for a section that identifies sales and specials. Technical info is provided too. Ask for email first on checkout. This is so you are able to send follow-up emails if they do not complete their orders. Display reviews more prominently.

eCommerce 48

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

I have been working with my Partners since November 2000. The company that employed us began putting profits above people and new sales above client retention. They recognize the average lifespan of a client is 3-6 months, so they implement a strong sales team to consistently search for new clients. 10-Passion.

Entrepreneur 114

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 4, 2011

We didn’t assume our students had any existing tech knowledge and just wanted to watch our videos and copy what we did and then get a result. We launched the site, I emailed my lists and told my blog readers about the videos and then sat back and watched what happened. If you get your offer wrong, you won’t make sales.

Sales 70

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

OCTOBER 16, 2019

While people often think of automation as a complete technological take over of all work-related tasks, this is not the case at all. Workers will always be needed as technology needs the assistance of a skilled hand. Imagine printing off 2000 documents, only to find they needed repeating due to a quality failure.

Product 40

Product Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Employee 40

Ben's Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

She left, but we were going to fire her, or give her a bad performance review” – High tech companies tend to track employee attrition in three categories: People who quit. Anybody who has ever run an enterprise sales force has heard this lie before. Some familiar lies. People who got fired.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Churn Rate Engineer Employee 78

Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

There are many ways to measure technical skills and check work histories and achievements, but assessment of team chemistry is a high art form. Make your choices only after you’ve done some due diligence with other companies where they’ve served. If you shoot from the hip, you’ll be shooting your own foot most of the time.

Technical Review 48

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

After more than 15 years leading Sales and Marketing teams in the Media & Publishing spaces, he’s developed a unique passion for helping creators become more successful by leveraging books as a catalyst for opportunities and sustainable revenue. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! So there's a large buried entry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

As a member of the selection committee on one of these local organizations, I use Angelsoft on the investor side to review business plans, deal flow, and help orchestrate presenters at monthly meetings of the local organization. They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes.

Angel Investor 120

Angel Investor North America South America Accredited Investor 120

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. What was still missing was a simple way to identify a customer at the point of sale. We experimented with tap and go technology, both on cards as well as embedded in mobile phones.

Programming 150

Programming Turkey Social Media Redemption 150

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

Carl was also worldwide head of stores at Home Depot when Hurricane Katrina hit, running sales out of the backs of trucks and accepting IOUs for payment. 9:33) Scaling Up Excellence , process debt, technical debt, and human capital debt, plus rapid prototyping during the pandemic. (13:58) Stanley McChrystal's Team of Teams. (29:34)

Technical Review 148

Technical Review Balance Sheet Texas Austin 148

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Loading… Tech. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. Mossberg Reviews the iPhone 5. Most Emailed Feed. » More. » More. » More.

Venture Capital 107

Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

All I have access to is just a cursory review of their digital existence. You can still put together a quick dashboard that will allow Jim and Bob to do a quick review of the data and make smarter decisions about how to invest their limited budget on digital upgrades. B2B / Enterprise Sales: Salesforce. A quick best practice.

Metrics 141

Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

I’ve had the opportunity to work with many impressive teams and product managers from a broad range of leading tech companies, and this has helped me to get a better sense of the what is essential to the role, and to success. Even worse, DVD sales were starting to lag, and a Hollywood backlash further muddied the situation.

Product 60

Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

Hearpreneur

MARCH 16, 2018

Despite practicing law and building tech startups, there was a big part of me that was unsatisfied in each of those roles. After serving various sale director roles it dawned upon me that the data entered into the CRM by sales guys working out of the office, was inaccurate. Thanks to Alison Bernstein, The Suburban Jungle ! #9-

Entrepreneur 100

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

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Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 17, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! When, you know, the record labels, who is the manufac of the music, they actually were putting in millions of dollars and needed that $20 return on investment for each sale. We don't just make a product and get, hire a sales team and send them out there to tell the world about it.

Audio 82

Audio Networking Social Media Framework 82

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. Three reasons: There is a relative valuation between the price a VC pays and their expectations of what it will exit for in an IPO or trade sale.

Burn Rate 263

Burn Rate Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Private Equity 263

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! One when scale started to kick in, when we hit the, you know, 200 employees at the head office, 2000 employees system wide, it started to get complex and a little bit outside of my sandbox. And now we've got technology coming in. Sign up to receive email updates.

CTO 79

CTO Cofounder Networking Operations 79

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

A Harvard Business Review (HBR) study of 4,700 public companies looked at the three years before, during, and after recessions. 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. Email habits change.

Marketing 121

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Technology | Thursdays. Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. Email address: Home. SALES & MARKETING. TECHNOLOGY. Technology. Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. Start-up | Mondays. Small Business Success | Mondays and Thursdays.

Arizona 40

Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 11, 2020

Klaviyo is a platform that helps growth-focused eCommerce brands drive more sales with super-targeted, highly relevant email, Facebook and Instagram marketing. He’s also the founder of an emerging tech PR communications company called Cultivate Strategies. This is a one to one sales job kind of. John Jantsch: Yeah.

Iowa 67

Iowa PR Email Washington 67

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a recent survey published on HubSpot, it was found that companies who put data at the core of their marketing/sales decisions improve marketing ROI by 15%-20%. The same article notes 30% more time spent analyzing marketing performance data yields 3x higher open rates and 2x click through rates for email. image source. image source.

Retention 115

Retention Customer Developer Programming 115

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I have the knowledge in tech to implement it. If you’re looking for technical talent – go to the dev meetups. Do that – nothing else but one product / company / focus and get to $1M in sales with atleast $15% net profit. I think it’s a huge mistake to outsource technology as a startup. I also like to get a sale $$$ ASAP.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44