Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

Most begin by doing the product development, marketing and sales alone, but struggle making the transition to hiring and coaching others, defining repeatable processes and focusing on future strategy. For example, there once was a social network called Friendster , often credited with starting the social networking boom way back in 2002.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 21, 2013

2002 – “the social network fad is over”. 2002 – “Information Technology is not a competitive advantage”. 2002 – “Consumer electronics is a low margin and highly competitive industry”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. (Evernote, Dropbox).

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

million in 2002. Social Networking. Let’s face it – women are natural networkers. But just then, the frustrated husband on the sales team ran up and said “let me handle this.” Then he just tried to hard close the sale. The sale was lost the second he began speaking! According to the U.S. That is up from 6.5

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 28, 2016

million in 2002. Social Networking. Let’s face it – women are natural networkers. But just then, the frustrated husband on the sales team ran up and said “let me handle this.” Then he just tried to hard close the sale. The sale was lost the second he began speaking! According to the U.S. That is up from 6.5

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Of all your hires, if you have commissioned sales people, those will give you the most problems if they’re not all given an equal chance to make their quotas and achieve their personal earnings goals. If you’ve been in the sales game, you know that most customers will sell themselves if you just let them. You’ve just got to listen.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 21, 2015

We went public in 2002 and eBay bought the company later that year for over $1.5 Our industry is so enmeshed in TechCrunch headlines, the Twitterverse, and offline chatter at networking events that it’s easy to believe that everyone else is killing it. The Power of Perception . PayPal ultimately became a very successful company.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

But it was in Sydney that his baking skills came to the fore – he started baking out of boredom in 2002 for a friend’s birthday party, and when the cake received rave reviews he became de-facto baker for gatherings. “ Food Network actually approached me when I was in Canada,&# Ang grins shyly.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 20, 2015

We went public in 2002 and eBay bought the company later that year for over $1.5 Our industry is so enmeshed in TechCrunch headlines, the Twitterverse, and offline chatter at networking events that it’s easy to believe that everyone else is killing it. The Power of Perception . PayPal ultimately became a very successful company.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 21, 2015

We went public in 2002 and eBay bought the company later that year for over $1.5 Our industry is so enmeshed in TechCrunch headlines, the Twitterverse, and offline chatter at networking events that it’s easy to believe that everyone else is killing it. The Power of Perception . PayPal ultimately became a very successful company.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The mom-and-pop business became an instant success and its annual sales continued to skyrocket each year. In 2002, the Glacéau, line of beverages became the top-selling enhanced water brand in America and it raked in $350 million in revenues in 2006. and sells products through a wholesale customer network of nearly 20,200 stores.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

If you find a resource on bank loans dated 2002, for example, you’ll probably want to verify that the information is still correct by comparing it to other pages in your search results. Is it a sales pitch or an opinion? Global Entrepreneurship Network. Look for evidence that the website contains current information.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 25, 2003

Its latest survey calls for an increase of 2% spending for 2003 versus a December 2002 survey which forecasted a decline of 1.1% We have a number of companies in the Enterprise IT space selling security, storage, network management, wireless, and other related software. To bolster my thinking, I like to look at a number of data points.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

After more than 15 years leading Sales and Marketing teams in the Media & Publishing spaces, he’s developed a unique passion for helping creators become more successful by leveraging books as a catalyst for opportunities and sustainable revenue. So when Lulu started in 2002, so about 20 years ago, we just celebrated our 20th anniversary.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

For example, consider the following piece of copy from CopyLogic: “In 2002, members of Congress and President Bush began formulating a new economic bill to benefit a certain group of investments. In 2002, members of Congress quietly passed a bill to help themselves. .” ” Don’t drag it out.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. eBay, DoubleClick, Webex, Real Networks, Exodus, Equinix, amongst many other pioneering companies, as well as covering companies like America Online and Netscape.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Established in 2002 and operated for the first few years from a small single bedroom at their mother’s home, Justin and Jason Korinek have managed to increase their turnover every year for the last 17 years… they are clearly doing something right! Include a clear sales funnel that encourages people to get in touch.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. My SVP of Sales & Marketing quit 30 minutes before an important board meeting. before the really profitable years of social networking and when many in the industry were despondent. They seem to have bounced back nicely. It was 2007.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

John Jantsch (00:00): This episode or the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by the Nudge Podcast, hosted by Phil Agnew and brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network. But that's just part of the rejection of doing sales. So I started in 2002 and in 2006 we took financing in. Mike Evans (04:02): I did do that.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. My SVP of Sales & Marketing quit 30 minutes before an important board meeting. before the really profitable years of social networking and when many in the industry were despondent. They seem to have bounced back nicely. It was 2007.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2013

For example, consider the following piece of copy from CopyLogic: “In 2002, members of Congress and President Bush began formulating a new economic bill to benefit a certain group of investments. In 2002, members of Congress quietly passed a bill to help themselves. .” ” Don’t drag it out.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 20, 2018

I was at a crossroads in my career and debating about starting my own sales and marketing consulting business. In my refreshed state, I reviewed what others said I had accomplished which was; empowering businesses with the ability to manifest sales results. Thanks to Jonas Sickler, Reputation Management ! #4- 4- Created a new word.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

iridium satellite network. 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.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 23, 2004

While the panels are interesting and the speakers can stretch your mind, what is great about PC Forum is the high-level networking that occurs during the day. So what did we talk about? What allowed them to do it? What are the challenges they face now?

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

The startup is AfterDownload , an eight month old advertising network based in Israel. Omer : I have been online since 2002. VC Cafe: As an advertiser, what uptake can I expect to get using the network? Two developers (we’re in the process of recruiting for more) and the rest doing marketing and sales.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

The startup is AfterDownload , an eight month old advertising network based in Israel. Omer : I have been online since 2002. VC Cafe: As an advertiser, what uptake can I expect to get using the network? Two developers (we’re in the process of recruiting for more) and the rest doing marketing and sales.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

The startup is AfterDownload , an eight month old advertising network based in Israel. Omer : I have been online since 2002. VC Cafe: As an advertiser, what uptake can I expect to get using the network? Two developers (we’re in the process of recruiting for more) and the rest doing marketing and sales.

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Stan Shields is a martial arts professional who began operating a martial arts school in January 2002 (nearly 14 years now). He also co-owned and operated a very successful home remodeling company with family, owned and operated a security products company and was involved in a variety of network marketing organizations. Our Guest .

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Growing his original pizzeria from a meager $2,000 per week to over $1 million dollars a year in sales in a town of only 8,000 and opening his newest pizzeria at the $1.2 million sales mark in a town of 13,000 with an advertising budget of nearly zero. million sales mark in a town of 13,000 with an advertising budget of nearly zero.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

In its official nomination of TaKaDu, the WEF committee said that “by combining smart IT and SaaS, TaKaDu is radically improving the efficiency of water networks, significantly increasing the world’s water supply. 3M TO PAY $230 MILLION FOR ISRAELI TECHNOLOGY FIRM ATTENTI.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Then from a bottoms-up standpoint what you said is exactly right, I think, which is that the new generation of employees grew up on smartphones and tablets and touch and everything, social networking and Twitter and everything else. And they don’t buy sales-force automation software, they rent on Salesforce.com.

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Designmantic Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

She has also authored many best-selling books for Amazon on sales, marketing, entrepreneurship and small businesses. She was one of the founding members of the Athena Network in 2005 where she also served as its Operations Director and supported over 30 Regional Directors. Tamara McCleary. Website: tamaramccleary.com. Gina Bianchini.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Faster networks meant people would be able to access information anytime, anywhere, on any device. 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. And so we built our company.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

2002, the stock price went from $17.5 sales and marketing. (10). Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan. Measuring sales and marketing effectiveness of Saa. Feedburner Network. Paperblog network. per share to $8.0 anecdotes. (13). internet.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 29, 2012

He helps with the American Sustainable Business Council, writes books on responsible business practices, and is a member of the Social Venture Network and founder of the Community Capital Bank. Xavier Helgesen, Chris Fuchs, and Jeff Kurtzman. million for literacy funding.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 9, 2018

When I started the business in 2002 we mainly sold portable air cooling and heating products. We sell and license custom phone numbers, so our name sprung naturally from the results we aim to create for our customers: we get your phones to ring and, in doing so, boost your sales. Thanks to Julie Ann Wood, E-seedling LLC ! #10-

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ConversionXL

JULY 11, 2016

The quote first surfaced in 2002. The aim nowadays should be to create great content that directly converts into sales. Personalized sales message. Chris Mercer – How Top Marketers Are Using Google Tag Manager To Improve their Sales & Leads. ” But he never actually said that. That’s your job.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. Big things, like obscuring the networking stack under so many countless layers of abstraction that it’s virtually impossible to even imagine what bytes are actually going over the wire.

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