Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

We are not in a technology bubble. We have not even taken a major step towards a technology bubble. So let us first ask if “a very high percentage of the population&# has bought into a distorted premise about the future growth prospects for technology. In the last bubble, the S&P hit 44x in January 2000.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Toss around the term “Millennial” in your favorite search engine and it brings up perceived characteristics attributed to the generation. age group varies according to source, but the generation is roughly composed of those born between 1981 and 2000, according to Pew Research.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&# Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. This may work in stable markets and technologies. How to Miss the Boat – Five Times.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. This may work in stable markets and technologies. How to Miss the Boat – Five Times.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Without it, the page will take longer to load, which can damage the user experience and, ultimately, search engine rankings. More recently, Google Search Console rolled out a Core Web Vitals section, which tracks a set of website performance metrics that focus on user experience. How does server response time impact SEO?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it. Notice that none of those five reasons deals with TDD or automated testing, which have changed the game. This is the approach of test-driven-development (TDD). I agree with the other Anonymous regarding TDD (Test Driven Development). Do you have testers?

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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.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 14, 2013

5 New Realities of SEO written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Back in the day, SEO was more technical and less, well, semantic. Google officially rolled out a new search algorithm recently that employs a great deal of their progress in semantic search.

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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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Agile VC

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The VC industry (both the GP part and the LP part) pays attention to the sector’s returns, but the broader tech ecosystem only occasionally tunes in. But these long-term LPs are by definition using active managers in search of alpha (i.e. What about fund of funds (FoF), you ask?

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Ben's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Building a technology company is hard. 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. Today, only 8 months after launch, the SnapStore has 63 supported snaps representing around 2000 integrations.

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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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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. Our growth started in Silicon Valley and our users were still predominantly from the tech world for the first year or two. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. 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. Or does it?

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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. Self-Awareness will conclude this list for today.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 3, 2016

2 – Our Flagship Technology. When filing for incorporation ATLAS Technologies was already taken, so Mobile was added since that’s our focus. Thanks to Steve Wood, ATLAS Mobile Technologies. #3 Naming a company is always a time consuming process that requires due diligence. 3 – From Blah to Moi.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 28, 2013

Business-as-usual is not a credible response,” Blank writes in the cover story of the May issue of the Harvard Business Review : Why the Lean Startup Changes Everything. As Blank writes in HBR , “It’s already becoming clear that lean start-up practices are not just for young tech ventures.” Companies are facing continuous disruption.

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gigaom.com

JULY 10, 2012

Tech News and Analysis. AT&T promised in April to open Watson up to general development, but on Monday AT&T SVP for technology and network operations John Donovan made the launch official in a blog post , revealing seven different “contexts,” or language libraries, that app builders can access to speechify their products.

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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. Despite practicing law and building tech startups, there was a big part of me that was unsatisfied in each of those roles. 9- I HAD to.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. The Funding Problem. Today’s Normalization.

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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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ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

Technology is changing the way sales is conducted. And as I mentioned, technology is making sales generally more sophisticated. 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. Image Source.

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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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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 20, 2022

According to an Accenture study, companies are increasingly becoming invested in creation, with 62% of high-growth companies planning to invest in technologies that lead to higher rates of innovation study. Ironically, the founder of Netflix, Reed Hastings, made an offer to Blockbuster to buy out Netflix for $50 million in 2000.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 4, 2017

It is only possible if one has the right technical knowledge. Spend some time forming campaigns that include the use of television ads, magazines, the search engine optimization and many others. The launching of the site took happened in the year 2000, and since then, it continues to leave a mark in the people’s lives.

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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. Become A Blogger Goes Premium Due to the success of the free videos Gideon and I decided to team up and form a partnership to create a premium version of the videos that we would sell.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

It is also intriguing to see that the market bottom was reached only two years after the start of the decline for the 1929, 1973 and 2000 crises, so we might need another year before the market reaches it lowest point. In search of Europe's next tech stars. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. Venture Capital. (3).

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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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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. More About Cameron Herold: The COO Alliance.

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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. How much would an extra $1000 or $2000 per month help during that time? But companies that perform technical training also see a jump as laid off workers go back to the classroom to update their skills. The average U.S. at 3:04 am [.]

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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. Image source ). Social habits change.

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Its great that were in such a fertile phase for the tech industry that lots of people have new ideas, and Im very flattered that people value my input or ideas enough to want to share their projects with me. I have to pay a lawyer to review a document without having any idea why Im making that investment. But signing an NDA ?

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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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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Within a year, by late 2000 / early 2001 consulting firms were firing people en masse. Investment in training, adherence to process, global knowledge sharing systems, quality control / partner reviews and campus recruitment programs that attracted the right talent. Bryce is a bit like the entrepreneurs I search for.

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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. Those were the technology-powered innovations that enabled the new, much more desirable business model.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

All I have access to is just a cursory review of their digital existence. There are Search people and Content people and Landing Page Optimizers and Cart fixers and Attribution Specialists and more. Outcomes: Revenue | Ideas Funded Behavior: Path Length | Cart Abandonment Rate Acquisition: Assisted Conversions | Share of Search.

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