Growthink Blog

JANUARY 19, 2014

The technology age has brought with it a long list of business related success stories. GoDaddy was created in 1997 as Jomax Technologies by Bob Parsons who had recently sold his other company, Parsons Technology Inc., That changed in 2001, however, and GoDaddy.com quickly grew.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. I then ran a crowdsourced contest on crowdSpring to come up with ideas for the name. CrownTV is a spinoff of that name.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 29, 2017

Although most paper-based breaches and leaks occurred prior to the advent of digital technology, events like this one still occur today. of internal control weaknesses are caused by a lack of management review, also conducive to fraud and information mismanagement. Think again. The report also claims that 19.4%

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2023

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! So I was part of the team that made the prediction that the Chief Marketing Officer would spend more on technology than the chief information officer. 03:03): But you know, sap, Oracle, Microsoft and Salesforce all went out and bought marketing technology companies, right?

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 27, 2016

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. When brainstorming a name for a new venture, zero in on the promise you want to make to your customers. 1 – Modern Warriors.

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Working within a network of angel investors also expands the pool of expert resources and helps divide the work of screening companies and investment due diligence. Product/Technology 0-15%. Product/Technology. Experience in sales or technology. TARGETCOMPANY.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 3, 2020

By 2001, he was invested in the stock market and witnessed a unique situation where the stock market was in a tumble and, simultaneously, real estate was going up. As loans become due and rates balloon, tenants may decide not to renew the leases at all, or at such long terms, exposing the owner to cash flow problems.

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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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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. My company had raised venture capital in April 2001 but we were told that there may never be any more coming. I learned how to do a pipeline review with sales people without getting bullshitted to.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

In 2003 as part of my master’s degree I reviewed over 50 empirical studies in typography and found a definitive answer. Part 2 reviews the evidence for and against the legibility of serif and sans serif typefaces. 2001 ; Tullis et al., 2000-2001 , Tullis et al., Introduction. Definitions. Legibility vs. readability.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Small Business Labs, from Emergent Research , covers the key social, technology and business trends impacting small business. New Communications Review. Interest in this waned when the Internet bust resulted in most tech start-up equity becoming worthless, but it seems to be coming back. Most tech start-ups fail.

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Brandanew

JULY 15, 2015

This means, you will immediately see consumers and interested readers Google your name/ company/brand, if they hear about you. Digital natives was coined as a term in 2001 by Marc Prensky. These are people born after the 1980s who grew into the online world of the Internet, social technologies, computers.

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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. Tech acquisitions went crazy at the same time the IPO market did. 3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2014

While there may be generational gaps about fashion or social conventions, millenials are often at the forefront when it comes to technology. million—than at any point since 2001. Armed with new technologies and attitudes, Millennials are poised to start businesses that can transform today’s realities into the economy of tomorrow.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The proposal also included proclamations from tech-world celebrities like Steve Jobs, Apple’s founder, that the device might change urban life and could be as significant as the development of the personal computer. The New York Times, January 2001. Dean Kamen’s code name for the project was “Ginger.” 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. It became a huge kerfuffle with many VC partners writing to thank me for the post, which exposed those that gave their industry a bad name. And then I was mortified – Valleywag figured out which firm had treated me the worst and published their names.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The proposal also included proclamations from tech-world celebrities like Steve Jobs, Apple’s founder, that the device might change urban life and could be as significant as the development of the personal computer. The New York Times, January 2001. Dean Kamen’s code name for the project was “Ginger.” Image source ).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

The A round was done in February 2000 (end of the bull market) and my B round was done in April 2001 (bear market). People buy companies for 3 primary reasons: 1) they want the management team / talent 2) they want the technology or 3) they want the market traction (revenue, customer base, profits, etc). Minutes 11-16 in the video. <<

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

Lately, everybody seems to be talking about a new technology bubble. A Comparison Between Today’s “Bubble” and the Last Tech Bubble. If publicly traded technology companies are not at bubble-like prices, then private technology valuations aren’t either because they are roughly equivalent. Are the prognosticators correct?

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Diego Basch

AUGUST 14, 2013

A naive search engine built using the Common Crawl data on top of 1990s technology would feel clunky and tedious, like riding a horse for a ten-mile commute. If you and I start typing a first name (J-o-h), odds are it will show us people we know named John, along with their pictures. Google knows who you are.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

The authors encourage quoting from this article or using the data in articles and presentations but request that the title of this article and the names of the authors be cited for attribution. Please consider this article an ongoing reference for capital sources in Austin as we intend to keep it updated as we learn new relevant information.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. This service is temporary unavailable due to system maintenance. First Name. Loading… Tech. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. more in Tech. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. View All Search Results » |. The Wall Street Journal. Welcome, Logout. Customer Center. My Journal.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

HomeAway is another one of our five tech IPOs in the last five years. Instead of crying in their beers about it, Cotter and Tom Ball at Austin Ventures decided what to do next and came up with Small Ponds, which later became Whale Shark Media and then RetailMeNot (named after its largest digital property). No matter the name?—?the

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 14, 2016

A durable, trendsetting presence in the industry since 2001, the Atlanta-based firm sends over a billion emails per day and is the go-to choice for over 14 million organizations and individuals around the world. There are metrics to review. Building a list and setting up email templates and campaigns takes time.

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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. Value brands can also effectively reach out to pained-but-patient consumers who previously bought higher-end brands, a strategy Wal-Mart aggressively used with its ‘everyday low prices’ policy in the 2001 recession.”

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Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

If you’re an eCommerce site, your category page or your product page is much more likely entrance into your site than them just typing in your domain name. All the stuff you’re thinking about here, testimonials, social proof, think about reviews. Like 10 years ago reviews on product pages were nonexistent.

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BeyondVC

AUGUST 9, 2006

This is due, in large part, to the overall "bearishness" in the market. Tech stocks, in particular, are once again taking a beating on Wall Street, due in part to some investment banks cutting their ratings on the U.S. technology sector. technology sector. Oil prices are skyrocketing.

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

Fundraising is always difficult for all founders; the median PE/VC fund sources and reviews 87 companies before investing in 1. Technically yes. I used to joke I was always “integrating” startup socials (forgive me for not giving Asian people their due credit as being minorities). Is that wrong? Most definitely. Is it human?

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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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Babbling VC

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I believed them when they promised something and it would all pan out in due time. Without naming the name of the companies, I clearly made two investments convinced of the product and that people would love it. In the late 90's, everyone was going ga-ga as part of the tech bubble. It never did. Co-Investors.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

I started my business namely to help others and to improve upon the aloof customer service being presented in the IT industry. That’s what spawned the idea that I can do better and namely how computer users deserved much better. It was so bad that I almost wrote my first Yelp review. That’s it. That’s what we do.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Guess which technology we have the least trouble with. You have a CEO that clearly hasn’t taken the time to understand a technology platform. who forms technology biases based on old Visual Basic stereotypes or shallow interpretations of. ability based on one of many technologies. March 25, 2011 at 1:36 pm.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

With a wealth of financial knowledge, I took a risk and became the CFO of a clean tech startup and eventually moved to San Francisco where my entire high end wardrobe became obsolete. After retiring in 2001, I also joined a ladies networking group, On Purpose Networking for Women (OPN).

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 19, 2017

Dave Robertson: Yeah, so the fundamental idea is that we often talk about innovation in terms of using new technologies, right? Well, there was nothing new about the technology for that. They know my name. So everybody uses that example of digital photography is disrupting the industry and putting Kodak out of business.

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

One final remark: Even if you discover that you are exempt from the laws due to the small size of your company, it is well worth your time to understand the law and begin making habits out of following them. that the Tech-Ed speakers list had more people named Brian than women. Copyright 2001-2011 Eric Sink. startupcto

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ConversionXL

MAY 8, 2017

While the following advice is more focused on innovative technology companies, the idea can be transferred to any sort of marketing writing, including product descriptions. Early on, Mark Zuckerberg described Facebook as , “Something where you can type someone’s name and find out a bunch of information about them.”

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