YoungUpstarts

MARCH 10, 2017

Not all rebranding exercises need a change of logo or design. In 2002, Hewlett Packard signed a merger agreement with Compaq that would bring together the computer hardware businesses of the two businesses, each with revenues of over $40 billion. So between 2002 and 2007, Compaq continued to use their logo with little change.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 11, 2018

In addition to the revenue generated from apps themselves, the increased business efficiency powered by apps had a ripple effect on the economy. One economic outgrowth of 3G was the explosion of the mobile app market. Introduced in 2008, by 2015 the mobile app market was generating $30 billion annually.

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South Korea China SMS Germany 133

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2011

Once you are able to achieve some real “traction” with your business (paying customers, revenue stream), it may seem the time to relax a bit, but in fact this is the point where many founders start to flounder. All the skills and instincts you needed to get to this level can actually start working against you, and you can fail to scale.

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Guy Nirpaz

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Have a designated owner who acts as a “quarterback” of Client Lifecycle program. From a client to client perspective the owner should be a post-sales account manager, often referred to as a Client Advocate, Client Account Manager or Client Success Manager who is measured on retention, and not new sales revenue. Try it now for FREE.

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Retention Merger Programming Sales 54

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2015

Get the results you design for. You must design and quantify the results. With over thirty years of experience, Rothman cemented his Gutsball ethos in the 2002 HP/Compaq merger, a deal that married Compaq’s global reach with HP’s technological prowess and resulted in a state-of-the-art finance and leasing company now producing over $3.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2010

Once you are able to achieve some real “traction” with your business (paying customers, revenue stream), it may seem the time to relax a bit, but in fact this is the point where many founders start to flounder. Way back in 2002, John Hamm published some early work on this subject in " Why Entrepreneurs Don't Scale."

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Founder Early Stage Startup Entrepreneur 228

VC Cafe

MAY 29, 2014

billion in revenue worldwide. Neuroscience Solutions Corporation (founded in 2002 and rebranded to BrainHQ ), Lumosity (founded in 2005) and Fitbrains (2007, now a Rosetta Stone company) are the most well known examples of second wave cognitive gaming. The rise of mobile gaming. In 2013, mobile gaming generated $13.2 billion for 2014.

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Marketing Mobile Cofounder Venture Capital 162

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already raised early-stage capital and are well into revenue growth. Give up a box of clothes and receive one in the size you designate. Online retailer of affordable “accessible luxury” designer fashion. Revenue of ~$160mm in 2008.

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IPO Venture Capital Private Placement Cofounder 242

YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2014

The otherwise identical homes could be customized with the interior designs, embellishments and personal touch of the owners. All software is supposed to save time, raise revenue, cut costs and boost productivity, but we now know how difficult it is to meet those goals. They’re chopping costs and upping revenue. Sound familiar?

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Software eCommerce Software Developers Software Development 248

View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2016

In the years immediately prior to the popularity of institutional seed investing (I’m using a time frame of 2002 – 2007), the early-stage financing landscape looked similar to the first segment of the chart. Series A investors invested quite early, often before product/market fit. Tweet this.). technical co-founder).

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Seed Stage Early Stage Cofounder Finance 120

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 4, 2014

If you just go ahead and redesign your site, chances are that it will fail – conversions / revenue per visitor actually go down. This happens when visual designers decide what your site should be like, or worse yet – you use design by committee. Careful – radical website redesigns often backfire.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 11, 2015

When Elon Musk received $200 million from the proceeds of the PayPal acquisition in 2002, he re-invested everything to build the next big thing: $100 million in SpaceX and $100 million in Tesla. It’s very important to explain in detail how this engine is designed and how you can scale while maintaining quality and productivity.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Customer personas are often talked about in marketing and product design, but they’re almost never done well. Cooper framed personas as a way of avoiding designing for an “elastic” user, and thus cementing some sort of common properties across segments to aid cohesive design strategy. Artistic and Aspirational Alex…?

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Software Review Design Agile Analytics 115

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 10, 2018

My father and I started the business back in 2002 with the following dream: “our mission is to support USA families and jobs by producing high-quality clothing, in the USA, at an affordable price. Post-Hurricane Andrew and I saw the need for more safe rooms so designed built the safe dome a backyard shed that can save your life.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 7, 2017

User personas are often talked about in marketing and product design, but they’re almost never done well. Cooper framed personas as a way of avoiding designing for an “elastic” user, and thus cementing some sort of common properties across segments to aid cohesive design strategy. Artistic and Aspirational Alex…?

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Software Review Design Agile Analytics 102

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 5, 2020

The SARS outbreak in 2002 leads to the tremendous growth of online marketplace platforms in China. It helped them to engage already existing customers with the brand and kept the revenues steady. Also, it is important to note business leaders believe that 4IR tech will safeguard them against an economic downturn in the future.

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Technical Review Software Review Entrepreneur China 153

Transformify

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The reasons are obvious – many international companies have their production plants in China, while others are dependent on the big Chinese market and any decline in the demand for their goods and services can hit their revenue targets. ICAO also forecasts that Japan could lose $1.29

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Past (1985-2002). billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. The Present Era.

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Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Gust

MAY 24, 2012

Management control is further entrenched by other provisions including a “controlled company” designation , exempting the company from the customary stock exchange-imposed corporate governance rules that apply to the vast majority of public companies in the post-Sarbanes-Oxley era.

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IPO Equity Common Stock Stock 159

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

They made other assumptions about the type of sales channel, partnerships and revenue model they would need. And they rolled all of this up into a set of financial forecasts with a “size of market” forecast from brand name management consulting firms that said they’d have 42 million customers by 2002. Lessons Learned.

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www.humbledmba.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy. Ran if for two years before we shut it down with almost no revenue achieved. The first advice I got when I came up with the design was apply for a patent. Oh, and what was the company? It was yet another Web 2.0

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Stealth NDA Startup IP 90

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

When we started our company in 2002 we decided that Sonjara would make a great name for our company or product; meaningful and unusual, as well as easy to pronounce and spell. Codal is a full-service UX design and development agency, based out of Chicago. 31 – Original Product Design. 11 – Lesson Learned.

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Naming Entrepreneur LLC Software Review 48

om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

In the early days, my belief was that blogs (or as I called them micro-pubs back in 2002) would grow really fast and it would allow me to aggregate large subsets of audiences around specific niches. All those sites used up our meager resources — monetary, design, engineering and intellectual. And so we built our company.

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Founder Conversion Distribution Silicon Valley 80

Designmantic Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

It is apparent that the United States has the highest performing entrepreneurship, but what is truly amazing is how women contribute the biggest growth in revenue, employment and financial efficiency. She is recognized as a design and innovation leader in high-impact and philanthropy product development. Website: talentculture.com.

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Entrepreneur Social Media B2B Cofounder 76

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 29, 2012

Despite adhering to practices that many businesses claim limit profits, Hollender and his associates have built Seventh Generation into a major corporate force, bringing in over $150 million in revenue in 2010. Xavier Helgesen, Chris Fuchs, and Jeff Kurtzman.

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Egypt Entrepreneur Senegal Africa 250

Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

The Deutsche Bank report has a very interesting chart on the topic presenting the Free Cash Flow margins vs. the revenue growth four years post IPO for select software leaders: As you can see, with 20% Free Cash Flow margin and a 50% growth rate, Salesforce is well positioned in the pack! 2002, the stock price went from $17.5

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Software Review Software Technical Review Cloud 48

ConversionXL

JULY 11, 2016

The quote first surfaced in 2002. If you don’t care about words, you’re a decorator, not a designer. Three tactics to maximize revenue from a CRO program: Free test software. As a publisher, content doesn’t make you very much money (with ads at least), so: Think about additional revenue streams.

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PPC Analytics Video Non-Compete 48