Hunter Walker
JANUARY 15, 2016
Dogster launched January 12, 2004 (Happy 12th Birthday Dogster!) By the end of 2004 I had brought on two co-founders: John Vars – who is now the Chief Product Office at TaskRabbit, and Steven Reading took over Sales and Revenue. This was pre-Google images, pre-MySpace/Facebook. I spent 6 months coding and building Dogster myself.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 1, 2018
Choose your social media channels wisely — and be active on them, providing content that builds rapport and loyalty with your audience. Even in the early stages of business ownership, reconsider trying to tackle every aspect of starting and running the company yourself. You should handle everything yourself in the beginning.
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ConversionXL
JULY 29, 2015
Narratives help overcome resistance in two ways : They reduce the audience’s tendency to counterargue your message. Your audience identifies with the characters in the narrative, relating the message to their own life. And they want to be seen displaying compassion because they want to be loved themselves.” ( West, 2004 ).
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 14, 2008
But the early customers all compared it to MySpace. This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. The people who are the lifeblood of an early-stage startup are earlyvangelists. They just dont need another authority figure in their life.
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. First, understand your audience. Reid Hoffman.
Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 24, 2009
This time, I was lucky enough to have my friend Nivi from Venture Hacks in the audience, and he was recording. I liked the flattering Venture Hacks commentary so much Ill just quote it: Many founders believe that early stage startups are endeavors of execution. He believes that many early stage startups are labors of learning.
David Teten
MARCH 12, 2012
According to a 2003-2004 U.S. We wanted a conference room with a standing conference table (~$950 on up) and anti-fatigue mats , but so far we haven’t had the audience demand. survey, Americans spend over half of their time awake sitting. And even the wall is optional. Technology.
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