Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

Moving on … My second post was directed at employees. If you’ve done it for a long time then I usually advise hiring managers to hire you as contractors and not full-time employees. Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 9, 2019

Klaviyo is a platform that helps growth-focused e-commerce brands drive more sales with super targeted, highly relevant email, Facebook, and Instagram marketing. She is the founder and CEO of Ruby Receptionists , a company she started back in 2003 and has seen double digit growth every year since it’s inception.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I was driven by my desire for freedom and that’s what I got; along with an amazing opportunity to help transform my employees’ and my client’s lives through homeownership and real estate. This is when I realized that I can use my business/sales experience that can and therefore I quit my job on the spot and started BuffetGO.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. Three rules in sales: Why buy anything? Why buy me?

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. Friendster was at its height, strongly battling MySpace after raising its premium round from Benchmark and Kleiner in the fall of 2003. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

In the last decade, however, that common wisdom has shifted, at least for consumer internet companies. And yet, many of the greatest success stories of the internet era involve founder/professional CEO partnerships. s Tim Koogle helped build Jerry Yang and Dave Filo’s startup into the world’s most valuable internet company.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

But back in 1999, a then very young Netflix based in Los Gatos with less than 20 employees, was on the edge of going bust. Even worse, DVD sales were starting to lag, and a Hollywood backlash further muddied the situation. They’ve been around for nearly 100 years, but they embraced technology and the Internet relatively early.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I had a lot of fun learning what the internet could do for me. In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. I don’t actually have any employees. Where am I today?

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

We basically automated that and then the business grew over eight years to do a bunch of different things that were related to sales and marketing for car dealerships. Matt Watson: It is a hard skill to learn and I love our employees dearly, but managing employees is hard. They were very much a luxury item.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Here, the “public” includes your customers, prospects, your employees, vendors, and others who connect in any way with your brand. Remember that you should evaluate both internal (your employees) and external (everyone else) perceptions of your brand. According to a study examining the effect of color on sales, 92.6%

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Mine started this way … I started my first company in the “go-go years&# of the Internet: 1999. I was on an airplane 2-3 times / week meeting potential customers, investors, employees, business partners and the press. We also cut staff from 92 to 38 in one day and then immediately afterward to 33 employees.

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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 I don’t think we as busy professionals and Internet junkies know how to sit still and self-reflect. Here is the TL:DR version in case you are pressed for time. STARTING IT UP. ARE YOU WINNING AS A FOUNDER?

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Designmantic Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

She is also the author of Social Media Mastery: A Comprehensive Guide to Strategic Growth and is the founder of “The Authority Matrix”, which is a powerful tool used by Fortune500 executives that utilizes employee advocacy and influence. Website: themarketingnutz.com. Tamara McCleary. Website: tamaramccleary.com. Aliza Sherman.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Here’s the rub: in consumer internet (and often enterprise), if your founding team doesn’t have the chops to get a prototype of your product out and in the hands of a blogger to test and write about, you might as well save yourself a lot of pain – you’re not going anywhere. I don’t know any developers. I need money for the servers.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 2, 2014

He recently wrote an in depth, multi-part blog series on the impact of working with remote employees and no managers. Marketing & Sales. is a sales platform, so they’ve focused their blog content to specifically help you improve your sales strategies. Sweet Process . A Smart Bear | Jason Cohen.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2016

If you’re not creating content, you don’t exist on the internet. This gives the copyright owner control over who can or cannot share their work, including sale, import/export, and commercial trade. The CAN-SPAM Act, signed into law in 2003, established national standards in the United States for sending commercial e-mail.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2016

If you’re not creating content, you don’t exist on the internet. This gives the copyright owner control over who can or cannot share their work, including sale, import/export, and commercial trade. The CAN-SPAM Act, signed into law in 2003, established national standards in the United States for sending commercial e-mail.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2016

If you’re not creating content, you don’t exist on the internet. This gives the copyright owner control over who can or cannot share their work, including sale, import/export, and commercial trade. The CAN-SPAM Act, signed into law in 2003, established national standards in the United States for sending commercial e-mail.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. It helps with sales cycles because customers know that they can switch away if they so choose. What did you learn at Juno?

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

. - Aerotel Medical Systems is a world leading manufacturer of modular, home and mobile telecare and telemedicine solutions designed to transfer essential data over the telephone, mobile phone and the Internet. Founded in 2003, ASOCS develops and markets MultiComms.processors that provide seamless connectivity over diverse wireless networks.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Meanwhile, the rash of early liquidity and recent IPOs — unsatisfying as they were — gave liquidity to thousands of employees at large companies, and a subset of those made very real money. Pandora begs Congress to lower Internet music licensing rates. Syria shuts down Internet in attempt to quell uprising.

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