Up and Running

JUNE 21, 2021

Thanks to assistance from SBIR-funded research, iRobot was able to conquer the thorny challenge of moving a project from the demonstration stage to a marketable and profitable product. Two years after engineering firm UEC Electronics launched in 1995, its owner realized she and her staff of 10 needed marketing assistance to grow the business.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

With the enormous changes to our economies and financial markets?—?how how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued?

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Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2021

Finance, strategy, marketing, human resources, technology, and operations are all fundamental aspects of any business. When you’ve spent months and months developing a tailored marketing strategy, zeroing in on what you believe to be the perfect strategy for capturing sales, it can be difficult to part with it if it isn’t proving successful.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 25, 2020

The rise of ecommerce started in 2001 – during the growth of the commercial availability of the internet in households. The breakthrough here is how smaller online shops found a platform that helped them reach the global market and be a part of this new rising phenomenon. Marketing Channels. The Rise of Ecommerce.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. While they’ll likely never regain the market dominance they had in the 20 th century, (their business model continues to be extremely profitable) Nadella likely saved Microsoft from irrelevance.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. While they’ll likely never regain the market dominance they had in the 20 th century, (their business model continues to be extremely profitable) Nadella likely saved Microsoft from irrelevance.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

I’ve had a long-standing rule of thumb in product design, which I call “design for the novice, configure for the pro.&# I started saying this back in 2001/02, long before the era of Web 2.0, Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis. lean startups or even the advent of AJAX. The pro will always find the advanced options.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The New York Times, January 2001. Finally, in December 2001, came the big reveal: Ginger was the Segway. . For marketers, then, the goal is to distribute that secret, in full or part, for maximum impact: To create real value for Insiders. David Hannah, Michael Parent, and Leyland Pitt catalog secrets by marketing value.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2021

On the other hand, most people thought Segway was the next big thing back in 2001, as an electric “personal transporter,” but it has yet to find a foothold. Markets, customers, and competitors evolve, and you must continually update the business to stay ahead. Yet today, Twitter is a fifty billion behemoth, and MySpace is forgotten.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The New York Times, January 2001. Finally, in December 2001, came the big reveal: Ginger was the Segway. . For marketers, then, the goal is to distribute that secret, in full or part, for maximum impact: To create real value for Insiders. David Hannah, Michael Parent, and Leyland Pitt catalog secrets by marketing value.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

by Enrico Moretti, author of “ The New Geography of Jobs ” Over the past three months, Facebook, Zynga and Groupon have lost between 33% and 52% of their market value. Is the entire sector destined to a sudden and quick demise, similar to the dot-com bust of 2001, with widespread stock market collapses and mass layoffs?

Technical Review 170

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

During Jeff Immelt’s tenure GE’s stock-market value fell by about half. So what happened? Are lean innovation and the Startup Way a failure in large companies? In fact, what happened is activist investors. Its stock is trading where it was 20 years ago. In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5 of the company.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. The world had just gone into crisis and I was in a period of reflection reminiscent of September 2001. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. Felipe grew up in Brazil.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 5, 2015

You may have also noticed that agile methodology — which was once thought to be only for software developers — is now being used just about everywhere, from construction to marketing, human resources, manufacturing, and even wedding planning. The “customer” in some cases can also be a collective market environment.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

by Keith Johnstone, Head of Marketing of Peak Sales Recruiting. days in 2001-2003. Keith Johnstone is the Head of Marketing at Peak Sales Recruiting , a leading B2B sales recruiting company launched in 2006. Keith leads all marketing activities and has successfully grown revenue and lead volume every quarter.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2016

More than being vehicles of marketing and revenue, this means that resource-hogging advertisement networks are often vehicles for malware. Max Emelianov started HostForWeb in 2001. When’s the last time you clicked on something through a banner ad, or were reminded of something important through a click-under billboard?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2018

This gives rise to the forex trade markets all around the world. Admiral Markets is a globally recognized Forex trading platform for company meant to make currency trading all around the world more convenient and accessible. About the company. Platforms and tools. Some of the major products dealt by the company are-.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

I changed that quickly when the market shifted and I had to lay off more than 80 people – many of whom were friends. We went “nuclear&# and slimmed down to 33 people (yes, I know, still large by today’s standards but this was 2001), raised $10 million and we built a real company.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2021

We put together a (non-comprehensive) list of some of the best marketing books, both new and old, to help you become a better marketer—and a better person. Published in early 2001, Positioning remains as relevant and actionable now as it was then. That all assumes you can find the right book. We can help. Let’s dive in!

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2023

How Employee Experience Shapes Brand Perception written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Tiffani Bova In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Tiffani Bova. 01:03): Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. Like this show?

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Here’s the graphic I used from that post: These data are now getting old and VCs, LPs, and entrepreneurs have to ask if anything has changed – especially given the strong markets we’ve experienced over the past few years. Since 2001, financings that have produced a 10X+ returns have fluctuated some but remain modest.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 10, 2017

Launched in 2001, it is the world’s sixth most popular website regarding overall visitor traffic. We’re all experiencing the rise of a growing number of cloud applications coming through sales, marketing, HR, operations or finance to complement centrally designed, legacy IT apps, such as ERP, data warehousing or CRM.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 11, 2011

This all taught me ‘real life’ marketing and copywriting, and the value of simplifying offers to get a good price. Selling and marketing both need great copywriting skills, as do persuasive emails. Remember PCs cost a lot more 10-15 years ago than they do now. Realize the power of good writing.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 3, 2012

he's only been in venture for two years and only through one market, an up one!" I've been in venture capital (with the exception of a year in product management and two years as an entrepreneur) since 2001, when I started doing late stage venture and fund investing at a big financial institution.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

They have seen one side of a market where many of us have seen the ebb and flow multiple times. Still, market amnesia by ordinarily rational actors always surprises me. I believe a bubble occurs when a market is willing to pay greater than intrinsic value for an asset class. I spoke about a lot of things during the keynote.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 30, 2022

The private markets lag the public markets. Having lived through this as an entrepreneur in 1987, an entrepreneur and VC in 2001, a VC in 2008, and a VC today, I embrace that this is just part of the entrepreneurial and economic cycle. That’s not new. I also know that many people freak out at this moment.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2018

What does this term foreign exchange market mean? This is a market in which the organizations or individuals are allowed to make sell, buy, speculate and exchange goods which owes different types of currencies. This is a market where people from different countries make deals with each other to buy and sell. Read below.

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Brandanew

JULY 15, 2015

Marketing leader Michael Hyatt posted a very critical post last year- here. The bulk of the marketing happened offline, in niche circles and was hardly getting amplified online. Digital natives was coined as a term in 2001 by Marc Prensky. They did have a website, yes, and also social media handles. The Digital Native Effect.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

A startup is more like Typo Keyboards, which recently engaged ISBX as its software engineering team to help it grow rapidly enough to fill an urgent market demand for Apple’s iPhone 6 buyers. The reason startups consider market efficiency essential to their success is because they are poised to play in a bigger field.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. What accelerated this was the collapse of the public stock markets.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 3, 2015

When I get coffee with another entrepreneur, I almost always learn something important about my market or get tips for solving business challenges such as managing employees, organizing work or even fundraising. Farbood is a former educator who was named 2001 National Teacher of the Year by the Princeton Review.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

In 2001, I entered the publishing industry, figuring I could use the general services turnaround skills I had developed after B school in an industry in turmoil as a result of the internet and the changes. But, with a great team and flexibility in addressing the niche markets we had a position in, we succeeded.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

We are purpose-built to not only invest pre-product but also to help accelerate your path to product-market fit with our decades of entrepreneurial and investing experience along with our active CXO advisory board. will be a great fit with the Salesforce marketing cloud. First check to seed?—?congrats Rebel exit to Salesforce.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 23, 2014

I know how hard the problem is, how wide open the opportunity is, how far it will scale in multiple directions (not just the data set, but the use case, target market, and ultimate product family.) This kicked me in the ass very, very hard between 2001 and 2004.

Technical Review 154

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2020

Five years later, in 2001, he founded Diveheart, a volunteer-driven organization focused on building confidence and independence in disabled children, adults and veterans through scuba diving. The first break came by securing a pro-bono legal firm that helped us with our nonprofit incorporation in 2001 and with registering our trademarks.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Surprisingly (or perhaps unsurprisingly), the answer to these are “NO” Not at least according to “ Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t “, a phenomenal business bestseller published in 2001 by renowned business author Jim Collins.

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VC Cafe

JULY 4, 2022

billion in 2,251 deals during the second quarter through June 15, versus about $70 billion in 3,369 deals in the first quarter • Declining valuations: In the secondary market for private equity, 55% of the equity offered for sale in May was offered at a discount to the companies’ valuations per share, compared with 47% in March and 35% in January.

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