Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

billion for a company with less than $50 million in sales. The Rise of Mergers and Acquisitions -– March 2003 -2008 After the dot.com bubble collapsed, the IPO market (and most tech M&A deals) shutdown for technology companies. For the next four or five years, technology M&A boomed, growing from 50 in 2003 to 450 in 2006.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 10, 2011

How about monitoring the relationship between internal teams like sales and marketing? How happy is your staff? It may be one of the most important reflections of the service your customers receive. Event follow-up – A quick way to monitor how your webinar, conference or presentation went. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Chief Infrastructure Officers Infrastructure officers will do much of what is expected of modern CIOs: reduce infrastructure costs, manage legacy technology and ensure smooth IT operations. Chief Integration Officers Another term for this might be "Chief Connection Officer." startupcto

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. Experienced Security People (SF) iSEC Partners Application Security Consultant (SF) iSEC Partners Senior Unity Game Programmer App Minis LLC Systems/Operations Engineer (relo assistance available) Advertising.com Software Engineer in Test Advertising.com. with a $3 sale.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. For innovation to succeed inside of a large company, you need a parallel set of processes, not to replace the existing ones, but to operate on a fast track. Building an entrepreneurship ecosystem.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 18, 2015

However, another piece of legislation, the California Online Privacy Protection Act of 2003, requires that your privacy policy on your website must outline: The types of data gathered, How the data may be shared with other parties, The process your customer can follow to review and make changes to the data you have on them, and.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

MySpace was incubated by a small team of employees within Intermix in 2003 (Chris DeWolfe, Tom Anderson and four others). VantagePoint Venture Partners came to the rescue in late 2003 with an infusion of $15 million in capital, adding Andrew Sheehan (now at Sutter Hill Ventures ) and David Carlick (now at Rho Ventures ) to the Board.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 25, 2012

It had ancient hard drives, an installation of Windows Server 2003 that hadn’t been refreshed for 5 or 6 years, and two SQL Server databases that had not been re-indexed (or had any visible maintenance) for 3 years. And the algorithm that made suggestions was operating at around 10-20% effectiveness.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

million through the Texas Enterprise Fund (TEF) for Facebook to create a sales and operations office in Austin. Perry’s request, the legislature created the TEF in 2003 and re-appropriated funding in 2005, 2007 and 2009 to help ensure the growth of Texas businesses and create more jobs throughout the state.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 28, 2011

If indeed you have any vision of selling your business in the future you’ve got to focus on marketing instead of simply focusing on sales. In my opinion, a greater focus on these elements not only creates greater sales, it leads to the creation of a more valuable asset – or something you might indeed be able to sell.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Among other corporate positions in my career, I have been a Chief Information Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Research Engineer for small private companies, and also some Fortune 500 and even Fortune 10 companies. This bill will NOT affect our company. Citrix Presentation Server 4.0, Oracle PeopleSoft 8.9,

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

I would love to be plagiarized and embroiled in a lawsuit--the curiosity factor alone would boost my sales and name recognition exponentially. By way of context: It took me 28 years (from summer fo 1975 til December of 2003) and at least four close encounters to see what seems to me so obvious after the fact. Ideas are cheap.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 13, 2011

Far too often marketers spend all of their attention on the chase and the sale and not enough on the retain and remarkable experience. It’s certainly a big topic, but I love that attract and retain are used in the same setting because they are certainly linked arm in arm in a business that wants to build any kind of marketing momentum.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

In 2003, he was the founder of Nigeria’s first online-realtime Point of Sale (POS) electronic payment system and in 2004 created West Africa’s first locally issued and processed online-realtime international payment card: Ecobank MasterCard. The company now has more than 17 million users. Konga, Jumia and Gloo.ng

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David Teten

AUGUST 7, 2019

When you invest in a Momentum company, everyone immediately congratulates you on your wisdom, sales skill, and success. . In 2000, LPs invested $104b into 638 funds, but by 2003, LPs’ commitment rate had dropped to just $11b into 161 funds. Sense of victory. But VC is historically and consistently cyclical.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

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. From that life altering event, Ella Bing was born as a family owned and operated business in 2012. At the time, I was a doing sales and marketing for a media company. Image Credit: Jen Perry.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 10, 2022

Starting with the ‘1984’ advertisement , Apple has changed the way we should be thinking, controlling our lives, and operating as individuals. Born in 2003, Tesla wanted to prove to the world that it was possible to drive a fully electric car while being more powerful, faster, and more enjoyable than conventional cars.

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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. But in our first year of sales (and those were really shitty years to be selling software) we sold $2.1 I learned how to establish sales targets and how to manage a sales pipeline.

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Small Business Force

MARCH 11, 2017

However, the book “ Moneyball ” by Michael Lewis, published in 2003 and the follow-on movie, with Brad Pitt, from 2011, really seemed to bring it into mainstream thinking not just in sports, but in business and most everything else. For example, every business needs sales to succeed. But what drives your sales successes?

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The “mere exposure” effect helps explain why we continue to push similar songs to the top of the Billboard charts and why high-level brand awareness can ultimately lead to a sale. invasion of Iraq in 2003 as a classic example.) You have an opportunity to draw a distinction between bad operators and what you do,” Smith explained.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 18, 2017

When I started in the financial services industry in 2003, getting to meetings when I was on the road was pretty straightforward—I took a cab. All of the software as a service (SaaS) companies operate on this model. Just like executives had for more than seventy-five years. That’s because we now have access to so much more data.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Before joining Track.com as Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Savage served as Managing Director of FX Macro Sales at Goldman Sachs, where he published widely-read and insightful research focused on the foreign exchange markets and the macroeconomic environment. Since 2003, Rumson has helped clients invest over $1.0 Moderator: Joseph W.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Founded in 2003, ActiveCampaign helps small teams power big businesses with the must have platform for intelligent marketing automation. If there was a moment where I thought I had it all figured out, if there's a moment where there's not something new to try to solve for, then it's kind a boring operating model in my mind.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2014

Over 25 years we’ve grown into a company that’s helping over 3,000 clients in eight countries optimize their business operations. and helps lead Casewise into a new phase of growth with a focus on strategic planning, solution and marketing innovation as well as operational excellence.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Friendster was at its height, strongly battling MySpace after raising its premium round from Benchmark and Kleiner in the fall of 2003. Friendster raised a big round in 2003; MySpace started gaining traction. What’s more, the sales and marketing costs of acquiring listings are expensive.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 7, 2019

Michael Port: So, let’s back it up a little bit because as you know, the closing techniques that someone uses in say, a sales conversation are often not the things that made the sale or lost the sale. The sale is usually made much earlier on in the relationship.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Four years later, in May of 2003, they launched Taobao Marketplace, Alibaba’s answer to eBay. In its most recent quarter, the company processed the exchange of $923 million of sales, which equates to a $3.6B In 2017, the company reported sales of over $500 million. annual GMV.

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ConversionXL

MAY 31, 2017

True, some companies experimented with social media as a sales channel as well. But for the most part, if you wanted to talk to a sales rep, you were filling out a form and then waiting for a phone call or an email. Of course, adoption alone isn’t what makes messaging a promising tool for marketing and sales teams. Image Source.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

As I said, I have a very small operation and I’m able to make much more than the average person. The biggest deal I’ve ever done was a sale of a $100,000 website. It was 2003 or right about then, and I was walking across the Green Street Mall in Brisbane, thinking that I was no longer interested in Magic the Gathering as a card game.

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Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

If you keep these 7 things in mind, you well be well on your way to a good blog and ideally, plenty of leads or sales. If they see a website that looks 3-5 years old, they think: “This business can’t possibly be operating anymore”. What are your most common sales objections? How do the sales representatives answer questions?

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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. Kathi Kruse.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

Ratiopharm, a privately-owned subsidiary of German holding company VEM, was founded in 1973 and has annual sales of about $8.6 Since 2003 the global market for children’s nutrition and infant formula products has nearly doubled reaching about $23 billion in 2009. ISRAELI CABINET APPROVES 2-YEAR MODEL FOR BUDGET 2011-2012.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Saba currently works as the operations manager (Sumo) at AppSumo. By generating a steady revenue from consulting projects and sales, the founders were able to spend time growing their business slowly. Photo by earthlightbooks. This is a guest article by Saba Younus. Who says a bootstrapped startup can’t succeed? How’d they do it?

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This is the first post in what’s going to be a series of blogs on how to go from nothing – no connections, no team, no money and no knowledge of how the startup industry really works – to operating a growing business. I’m taking a 52 week course in how to start up, run, operate, and achieve self employment.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

ChemChina, a state-owned company formed in 2004 from the former Ministry of Chemical Industry, had sales of $23 billion in 2010 and assets of $29 billion. It operates in 140 countries worldwide. Perrigo, which recorded net sales of $2.7 Koor is controlled by Discount Investment Corp, a subsidiary of IDB Holding Corp.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Copper’s Relationship Era does the same for the sales industry, and Dialpad’s Anywhere Worker paints a picture of simple, streamlined communication for SMBs. Set up in 2003, the website has a strong network-effect moat that makes it harder for other blogs and publications to compete. It generates lots of irrelevant traffic.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

After a somewhat disappointing congress in 2009, in which companies showcased products from previous years, this year is expected to be faster, greener and ‘cloudier’ Looking at the conference agenda , it’s not hard to spot the trends for 2010: Mobile Clouds – additional storage and new revenue streams to operators.

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