Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

It was fall 2004, and the presidential election was in full swing. Finally the day came, we unleashed the landing page, emailed our existing customers, and started advertising online. Labels: customer development , search engine marketing 13comments: Jim Lindstrom said. Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 12, 2011

I turned to Doug Hubbard, author of Pulse: The New Science of Harnessing Internet Buzz to Track Threats and Opportunities to talk about this very idea. Hubbard is the inventor of the powerful Applied Information Economics (AIE) method. He is also the author of How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. the evolution of LinkedIn as a company. Reid Hoffman.

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Software By Rob

JULY 13, 2010

The internet has created an unprecedented opportunity for solo technologists known as micropreneurs to conceptualize, create, and launch products that make a difference. Background The idea for ChangeThis came from Seth Godin, and the site was built by a group of talented developers in 2004. You don’t even need to register.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 10, 2011

In 1998, Google was the new kid in an established (if not quite mature) market for Internet search, and by 2004, it was by far the leading Internet search engine, handling almost 85% of the search requests on the web.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 26, 2011

Search Status Firefox Plugin – If you use the Firefox browser, and for the purpose this topic I think you should, you can install a number of handy plugins that give your additional information about the pages you visit. You simply adds these search shortcuts in Google and you can slice and dice a web site up in hundreds of useful ways.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

Lee Odden Lee Odden is the CEO of TopRank Online Marketing , a digital marketing agency specializing in strategic internet marketing consulting, training and implementation services including: Content, Search, Email and Social Media Marketing. All rights reserved.

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BeyondVC

JUNE 2, 2004

Rather than go into the software (which I really like btw, combination RSS reader, bookmark manager, and simple collaboration tool), I wanted to share some of our thoughts about consumer-based web businesses circa 2004. Critical Mass During the bubble period, the promise and potential of the Internet was all around us.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 15, 2009

The masses have grown weary of the blog “fad” just as they grew weary of the “email” fad in the late 90s, the “internet” fad in 2000, MySpace and Friendster in 2007/2008, and how they’ll grow tired of the Facebook and Twitter fads in 2010 and move on to something else. And that’s why now is a fantastic time to start a blog.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Founded : Spring 2004, incorporated July 2004. How They Make Money : Facebook’s primary revenue stream is of course selling advertising on Facebook.com, which in total accounts for 85% of revenue. Facebook estimates they already have 60% of addressable US internet users. Facebook, Inc. That’s the capex (e.g.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Brian Halligan Brian Halligan is CEO & Co-Founder of HubSpot , a marketing software company he co-founded four years ago to help businesses transform the way they market their products by “getting found&# on the internet. Is it optimized for search engines? Are you promoting it? How are you promoting it? All rights reserved.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 27, 2011

In some cases they are literally searching for a place to shop right now. Like much of the “Twitter is total waste of time” talk that emerged in 2008, there’s truth, hype and money to be made and lost in every new direction the Internet takes us. In addition, the size of the screen also changes the psychology of the surfer.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

Lee Odden Lee Odden is the CEO of TopRank Online Marketing , a digital marketing agency specializing in strategic internet marketing consulting, training and implementation services including: Content, Search, Email and Social Media Marketing. Useful content optimized with keywords also attracts more search engine traffic and links.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 8, 2011

This notion seems to be the current view for start ups these days in this put it out there and iterate quickly Internet driven world. Minimum viable products are okay until you learn how to create the real winner. Really great ideas emerge through lots of little failures. All rights reserved.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. And then came AOL.

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Start Up Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

A google search of the term now has 141 million results, a more than 100 fold increase on a year ago. Since its launch in 2004, Facebook was the clear winner of social networking with 3.6 97% of FB / Meta’s revenue comes from advertising. Both in terms of revenue and profit. But it is hard to see 3.6

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Brian Halligan Brian Halligan is CEO & Co-Founder of HubSpot , a marketing software company he co-founded four years ago to help businesses transform the way they market their products by “getting found&# on the internet. All rights reserved.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 6, 2011

The concept is not new and while it is a very powerful one, it’s been a bit tainted by the Internet marketers and coaches that have jumped into the business of putting these together for profit. I’m not suggesting this isn’t something you would pay to be a part of. All rights reserved.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 25, 2011

I had to explain that the Internet is not a company and that email comes from having an email account. Now, I teach lots of people how to do somewhat technical things all day long, but I quickly realized I had to dump all level of what I knew and start with simple metaphors just to get my ideas across. All rights reserved.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike believes the reason AltaVista didn’t become Google ( despite their market leadership position ) was because they didn’t focus on search. Instead, they tried to use their search position to offer a portal like Excite and Yahoo! Of course, monetization of search became one of the best business models in the history of business.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Your content isn’t good enough that the magic content fairies will find it and spread it around the internet. Find the 10% of employees that are content creators and nurture that. 7. People will Magically Engage in your Content. Find out where your customers are on the web and be active in those communities.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

After taking another year to build a second email marketing startup (with Anvil running in the background), I finally decided it was time for me to commit to building my own team and Anvil grew in earnest in 2004. Firstly I had been traveling the world and running blogs online, earning money by selling advertising.

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Altgate

JANUARY 28, 2009

of all pay-per-click advertising is click fraud. That’s hard to say, but if we assume the global pay-per-click market is equivalent to the global search market which JP Morgan estimates as an $83 billion market in the 5 year period of 2003 through 2008, then that could mean there has been $14 billion of fraud during that period.

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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. In 2004 I began blogging. I began placing advertisements on the website.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. Magical, really. TripAdvisor’s History: Two Big Pivots. Big Data meets travel…in 2000.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

Trying to answer that question at IMVU led me to discover Google AdWords and the world of search engine marketing. You declare how much someone clicking an advertisement is worth to you, and then the search engine does its best to get you as many clicks as it can at that price. SEM is a simple idea. I just came across this post.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

From 2004 to 2014, the average payments for coinsurance rose 107% from $117 to $242. They are more likely to disclose, or perhaps even advertise their prices. Internet Web Sites/User Generated Content (UGC) — On the internet, information availability evolves in one direction only — more and more.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

View All Search Results » Subscribe. Advertising. His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., Advanced Search.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

View All Search Results » |. The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser. Internet Explorer. ignited the current trend by adopting a dual-class voting structure before its IPO in 2004. Advertising. Advertise Locally. Financial News. Virtual Stock Exchange.

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

Twissues: Search and Archive all Your Tweets. The front page of the Internet. To have been responsible for funding and nuturing something that legitimately calls itself the “front page of the Internet”, the Y Combinator program has to have done something right. That summer Google released their own Desktop Search solution.

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 27, 2004

Fred Wilson and John Battelle have some interesting posts on the future of television and advertising. Fred and John both seem to believe that the concept of paid search will eventually work its way into television advertising. Recently, Businss 2.0 Recently, Businss 2.0 Username is Business2 and password is visibleworld.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

You’ve taken the first step towards dominating the internet. There is a lot of noise on the internet. You have a website that is well-designed, well-functioning, and most importantly well converting. Now, let’s look at 3 things that you can do to continue to market online. 1) Create Compelling Content. Don’t add to it.

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VC Cafe

JULY 9, 2010

The company is currently engaging with buyers and sellers in the marketplace, focused on revolutionizing the usage of data for performance based advertising. as in Telecom, Internet, Media and Entertainment), an angel fund led by Ilan Shiloach and Nir Tarlovski among others. Miscellaneous. Investment Rounds. Around the world.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

Internet 1.0. It was difficult to conceive how important the internet would be to our lives back in the mid 1990s. era emerged circa 2004, it really did feel like we’d discovered some kind of utopia. How could anyone ever lie again if we could just check it out on the internet and find out the truth! But when the web 2.0

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Had I known it was going to take the internet by storm I probably would have been a bit more careful with my word choice (especially referring to.NET as a language, doh!). Happy Look Like an Idiot on the Internet Day. LOL, I just realized the search on your site is powered by Bing… I believe this is what we call irony.

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allthingsd.com

AUGUST 24, 2012

Still, it is the highest amount increase since Fenwick began compiling the numbers in 2004. Internet/digital media and software was the biggest beneficiary of the rise. Search » Featured Posts. AllThingsD.com is a Web site devoted to news, analysis and opinion on technology, the Internet and media. Latest Video.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Some of the traffic-tactics we use involve good old fashioned payola: paid search, banner ads, affiliate programs, etc. In April of 2004 Burger King and their agency, Crispin Porter + Bogusky had an insight that led to what was, at the time, the most successful viral effort ever launched by a business: the Subservient Chicken.

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