ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The New York Times, January 2001. Finally, in December 2001, came the big reveal: Ginger was the Segway. . It doesn’t serve demand; it creates it.”. Dean Kamen’s code name for the project was “Ginger.” That was all most people knew. But few could wait to learn more. The rest of the story is familiar. Secrets form bonds.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 1, 2016

Here are 26 businesses that you can start virtually free (and those that aren’t completely free are quite low-cost). While not a new concept, monetized blogging is always a popular option for an essentially no-cost business. The trouble is, you don’t have a whole lot of starting capital—or any, for that matter. Etsy business.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Home document management software doesn’t just let people work from home — it lets them do everything that comes with that privilege, including the reduction in cost it would take to lease commercial real estate — a huge price tag in some of America’s most consulting-driven geographic areas. Founded in 2001, eFileCabinet, Inc.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

ABM/Demand Gen), Richard Crowley (Slack, Ops Architect), Misha Brukman (JanusGraph, co-founder). Balanced growth vs. growth at all costs: No conversation about 2019 will be complete without considering the uncertain economic, financial and geopolitical environment in which we are currently living.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

When a product is truly unique and demanded a retailer willingly promotes and sells it en masse in part because it does get margin on the good but also because it brings customers in the door who spend on other products. If you’re in the market for pure functionality and you value the lowest costs, Amazon will always be a great bet.

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The laws of supply and demand, and marginal pricing, withstand the test of time. Demand matters: IPOs are a bull market product Gauging demand for an IPO can be difficult, in part because so many IPO order books are over-subscribed. The tl;dr: It’s Economics 101. So, what happens when we combine the data from the two charts?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

But the bubble mantra of get “big fast” and “first mover advantage” demanded tens of millions more to create a “brand.” 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. Startups that win in the bubble will be those that get wide adoption (using freemium, viral growth, low costs, etc) and massive distribution (i.e. Wide Adoption.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

For many businesses you should keep your costs low & your capital raises low until you discover whether you are really on to a big idea where there is market demand. What ended up happening was a critical project was delayed that cost the company some important business. The result? Fund raising can be black-and-white.

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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.&# Though after the dotcom collapse of 2000-2001, there are many more than there were! Why are consulting CTOs so scarce?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2016

Demand for safety and usage regulations. Witness the struggle of the Segway human transporter, introduced back in 2001.Technology Investors have a rule of thumb that simple cost reductions of less than twenty percent are not enough to convince most users to change to a new solution. Technology can change faster than laws.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

The company quickly realized that its initial commercial product was in huge demand – they had reached product-market fit nirvana. Despite the Internet bubble bursting, the company was able to generate over $160 million in revenue in 2001. The first year of revenue (1999) was $4 million – a remarkable achievement. Gross Profit. $(60).

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Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

Those things cost me $5,000, $10,000 a build five or 10 years ago. If you invested five or 10 years ago in a static site that was coded, you frankly are just in need of a refresh and unfortunately that’s just a sum cost that you need to invest in. That’s some 2001 stuff right there. What am I going to do?

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2014

million—than at any point since 2001. In other words, the cost of a college education has gone up, but so too has its value. They conclude, however, that particularly since 2001, it’s become more common for grads to settle for part time or low-wage jobs in professions like retail and hospitality. At the end of June, U.S.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

We downsized from 35 people in 2001 and are now a size that allows us to work directly with clients. We can extend our clients' reach tremendously, and for low cost, by using the internet and social media to distribute and link to the "assets" we create. Having fun again. Our name Reality2 stands for Reality2.0. Absolutely.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

According to the S-1 filing: Salary.com is a leading provider of on-demand compensation management solutions. From April 2001 through June 30, 2006, we achieved 21 consecutive quarters of revenue growth. Our direct sales group markets and sells our solutions primarily using the telephone and web-based demonstrations. million, $0.9

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

” I think the first thing to remember is you can spot the early warnings long before these things are at your doorstep demanding that you respond to them. We forget, we think this is ancient history, it was 2001, I mean it wasn’t that long ago. ” And the response was, “Well, gradually and then suddenly.”

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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. Once again, this is an asset against which the marginal cost to host a dog is near zero. annual GMV. As a result, productivity naturally improves.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

One dimension is a pretty firm belief that starting financial services companies should not be as hard as it is, and that there is demand in the market for yet another venture fund focused on functionally day-zero companies in financial services. Dan Kimerling: I love 2001: a Space Odyssey. In general, I am not very long crypto.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

— in a class so high in demand that I had to wait several quarters to take it? With the recent wave of on-demand offerings from taxi cabs to mobile dry cleaning, consumers have started to rethink the way they book and buy products and services. In 2001, I came home to find my apartment on fire. 31) Opportunity Cost.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

I had been writing GigaOM (the blog) since December 2001, but in 2003, I started working on a piece for Business 2.0 called The Rise of a Insta-Company, which theorized that open source, cheap bandwidth and increasingly falling cost of infrastructure would result in companies being built at a dramatically lower cost than ever before.

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View from Seed

APRIL 20, 2022

Comparisons have been made to the two most recent significant pull-backs of the dot com crash in 2000-2001 and Great Recession of 2008-2009. . Even in a sustained downturn, tech is likely to be a driving force of economic productivity improvements rather than the proximate cause of recession (as in 2001).

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Campus Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 20, 2012

When Apple first released its iTunes software and music store in 2001, it set new standards for digital music that led to the demise of CD’s in favor of 99-cent-per-song downloads. will be freely available and this drive down the cost. The key difference is that much of the content (articles, videos, audio, etc.)

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2018

At the time of its incorporation (2001), I had seen an article published by the University of Chicago showing that 82 % of CEOs had revenue growth as their #1 objective. So I called them immediately and demanded they remove their phone number from my postcard. #4- Our main focus. Photo Credit: LaVon Koerner.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

There are a number of trends concerning IPOs and capital formation to note: First, the raw number of IPOs has declined significantly: From 1980-2000, the US averaged roughly 300 IPOs per year; from 2001-2016, the average fell to 108 per year. double the rate of the prior year, 103 of those being venture-backed companies. 1990-1998 13.3%

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Austin Startup

APRIL 23, 2020

After September 11th, 2001, people were afraid to fly. We all learned about “flattening the curve” to avoid the spike in demand from a virus with exponential growth. If the cost per person is low (like $2 per day), it will be an easy decision. By November 19th, the Transportation Security Administration had been established.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Shame on you for spinning your desire for junior developers as being solely related to cost. ” My guess would have more to do with the costs of Windows Server licensing and the Visual Studio IDE than with the capabilities of.NET or C# (of which the above post demonstrates an extremely limited understanding). originalgeek.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 11, 2018

Brandless claims that by eliminating the costs associated with advertising, marketing, and branding for a national brand, they can save consumers a sizable 40%. According to Sharkey, Brandless has a different intended narrative, one that works to emphasize the changing values and demands of their market. Does anyone remember Webvan ?

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

These 12 bigshots got into some industries that don’t exactly fit their famous personalities — or the demands of consumers. The KISS frontman started off selling the KISS-themed coffin online in 2001 and launched the newest versions of the “KISS Kasket” early in 2011. Way outside of the box. MC Hammer’s search engine.

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