Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Microsoft entered the 21st century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. 16 years later it’s just another software company. After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. Here’s why. They had lots of these projects.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Microsoft entered the 21st century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. 16 years later it’s just another software company. After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. Here’s why. They had lots of these projects.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Sharing the stories of organizational failure due to a lack of enterprise innovation can create a sense of urgency in employees and make them understand the stakes. Ironically, the founder of Netflix, Reed Hastings, made an offer to Blockbuster to buy out Netflix for $50 million in 2000. To learn more about Yahoo, we search on Google.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 4, 2017

Before starting an online casino take time to study the online software providers that exist. Determined to give their customers the best software solutions, they have support structures that give the best experience to entrepreneurs. The first move involves identifying a software provider. Setup a white label!

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. Avoid delay by using a consulting CTO on a short-term basis while you are searching for a permanent technology partner. Though after the dotcom collapse of 2000-2001, there are many more than there were! Also try a search on LinkedIn. Try Google.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

Thanks To Facebook, Strongest Year For IPOs Since 2000 With $21.5 Don’t Hire the Perfect Candidate | Lance Haun-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Scaling Your UX Strategy | Robert Fabricant-Harvard Business Review - [link]. SEO For Facebook Graph Search? Facebook Has Some Tips | Search Engine Land - [link].

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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.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

The fact that we can get stuck at this level of soul searching is something that is rarely seen in other industries. Search for “social CRM” and “social loyalty” and you’ll find lots of examples of companies linking Facebook and Twitter to their loyalty programs. In 2000, we launched a loyalty program for a bank in Turkey, Akbank.

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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. Software is eating the world. The internet is working.

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Ben's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

So much so that our diligence found him working round the clock, running a hyper-intense environment and looking very much like a 20 year old entrepreneur on a mission from God. The market change: Software as a Service. Today, only 8 months after launch, the SnapStore has 63 supported snaps representing around 2000 integrations.

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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. We have also been very busy with our next release, which is due out by December 11th (but I’ll save that for a different post). And covered we did.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. Is it a case of just design it, code it, build it, deploy it, trademark it, copywright it and then go for funding? . My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004).

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 22, 2019

It’s kind of a shady site, but what it is basically is it’s like a web proxy so you can go to Google, use an IP address that’s in the States and search through it, and the cool thing is is that it’s not a VPN so it doesn’t have your browser history or any of that stuff implementing it. Brian Dean: Oh definitely.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Make your choices only after you’ve done some due diligence with other companies where they’ve served. He retrieved all documents by searching his email to find the one to which they were last attached, or, more often, he called me to re-send something and therefore move it up in his email stack. Some take a day to explain.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

And sales enablement software helps arm sales teams with the information they need to close sales. 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. Sales enablement software, instead, lets you do two things: 1.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Memorable Postcard from a New Mechanic My Report on StackOverflow DevDays → Are Twitter and Facebook Killing Blogs? And that’s why now is a fantastic time to start a blog.

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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. Look, you've worked hard to grow your business and finding CRM software.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry.

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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. If you go to HubSpot’s website or (more likely) do a search for an inbound marketing related topic, you’ll find their content.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

And thus it is with the majority of open source software: Open source software is free if your time is worth nothing. I’m bracing my inbox for emails from disgruntled Gimp users explaining how charging for software is bad, commercial software is evil, and my mother dresses me funny. But I don’t buy it.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 9, 2017

John: So I guess I’ll start off with because you write so much about local digital marketing, local search stuff. John: And where does voice search go with that? What results are you getting from voice search? John: And we’re also seeing an ad that has reviews in it and all kinds of snippets in it now an extension.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

No manager in their right mind would fire the technical lead of a big software project. Show Up Early, Leave Late I’ve talked about how crunch time should be the exception in software projects. How much would an extra $1000 or $2000 per month help during that time? But desperate times may call for some extra hours.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2015

First, your average human today is inundated with over 2000 outbound marketing interruptions per day. In order to do this, you need to set your website up like a “hub” for your industry that attracts visitors naturally through search engines , blogging , and social media.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

“TripAdvisor is to travel reviews what Kleenex is to tissues.”. . 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. Big Data meets travel…in 2000.

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A Crowded Space

JANUARY 17, 2019

However, due to a variety of reasons —> the 5-star system does a terrible job at identifying the highest quality good or service. 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.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Their code base had diverged and it was extremely slow and costly for Microsoft to be implementing Word separately for each platform: Windows, DOS and Mac. It also meant that there was great pressure to get the release out so they could start to gain the efficiencies of a single code base. In 1993, Word 6.0

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2018

I took a course on innkeeping through a company in Florida, found through online searches and reviews. I got an SBA loan and purchased my business within months of beginning my search. When 9/11 happened, we had finished our most profitable year in 2000. Learn from your mistakes and successes. We had many cancellations.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Increased productivity also leads to reduced lead-time and improved due date performance, both of which reduce chaos and foster a great work culture. Before starting Bizstim Software Solutions I was a college professor and I had a tutoring company as a side hustle. Thanks to Christopher Binns, Bizstim Software Solutions ! #12-

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

You can learn as much from these cautionary tales as you can from the enduring successes, plus studying a broad sample of firms helps avoid drawing false conclusions due to survivorship bias. There are a number of VC firms that had extraordinary success in enterprise software, telecom equipment, and semiconductors in the 1990s.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

View All Search Results » |. This service is temporary unavailable due to system maintenance. Financial News. Virtual Stock Exchange. WSJ Classifieds. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. The Wall Street Journal. Technology. Welcome, Logout. Customer Center. My Journal. Message Center ( new). Forgot your username or password?

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 18, 2017

He is the author of 3 books and creator of 34 information and software products – most famously the award-winning RocketMemory™ course system, and the Best-Selling SurveyFunnelFormula. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Click here to see how you can enter to win a full year of this tool ($2000 value).

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

View All Search Results » Subscribe. Computer Software. Financial News. Professor Journal. SmartMoney. Student Journal. Virtual Stock Exchange. WSJ Classifieds. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. América Latina. 中文-简体 (China). Media & Marketing. Small Business. More Industries. Accounting.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 7, 2014

They can easily see information that supports purchase, such as background information, reviews, and multiple images of products. Not only that but mobile traffic is now 18 times the size of the entire internet traffic from 2000. Search & Filter Options Become Overwhelming, Redundant, Inaccurate & Confusing.

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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. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? Third-party software companies will start to offer features to websites to actually drive social features. reinvented, with more people online and trained.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 10, 2018

I started PromotionCode.org as an online spreadsheet of coupon codes for teachers out of necessity ten years ago with no idea it would eventually become a business. 8 tons transportable dome capable of withstanding 200 or more mph winds due to its shape and design. I sent out over 2000 resumes over about 3 months and got nothing.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Until a few weeks ago I owned one of the top ranking sites on Google for the search term “beach towels.&# As a software developer I want things in neat little boxes. But the problem is that marketing isn’t like coding. Coding is a highly constrained environment and, with most problems, a well-known path to success.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 17, 2023

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! These are big enterprise expensive software system. All the search marketing in the world and email marketing in the world will not make you aware of that opportunity cuz they're just not gonna talk to anyone. I think he has a goal of something like 2000 words a day.

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