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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #2: What’s in a name?

Austin Startup

grow into international markets, other industry verticals, and other product lines). we would not be limited by geography, industry verticals, or expanding into new product lines (data is a truly huge industry with no TAM, or total available market, limitations). and hopefully?—?grow I think really hard when I’m naming a new startup.

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The Twenty Year Itch: My Last VC Investment Out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

This is going to be BIG.

To put that timeframe in perspective, here’s a picture of analyst me taken at USV’s first office in 2005, dressed in khakis and a button-down shirt versus a picture of me, a GP at my own firm, over 100 deals later, now on my latest Zoom board call from my couch at home with my junior analyst of about a year and a half. Consider this.

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The Next 10 Years Of Infocomm Technology

YoungUpstarts

billion) in 2005. Over the last 3 decades, IT has evolved from providing infrastructure and hardware to a more strategic role that is intimately woven with business verticals as shown below: - 1980s to 1990s: Servers, Storage, and Communications Infrastructure. 2000 to 2005: CRM, SFA, ERP, Payroll, Analytics, etc.

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The 4 Phases For Developing A Customer Retention Strategy

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Popular eCommerce site Threadless has had a “feature request” thread on their customer forum since 2005. For industries with thin profit margins, offering an incentive like 2% off isn’t very enticing, and in many verticals, and in some cases might require a significant lift in sales in order to break even. image source.

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How To Develop Your Customer Retention Strategy

ConversionXL

Popular eCommerce site Threadless has had a “feature request” thread on their customer forum since 2005. For industries with thin profit margins, offering an incentive like 2% off isn’t very enticing, and in many verticals, and in some cases might require a significant lift in sales in order to break even. image source.

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The 4 Phases For Developing A Customer Retention Strategy

ConversionXL

Popular eCommerce site Threadless has had a “feature request” thread on their customer forum since 2005. For industries with thin profit margins, offering an incentive like 2% off isn’t very enticing, and in many verticals, and in some cases might require a significant lift in sales in order to break even. image source.

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The 4 Phases For Developing A Customer Retention Strategy

ConversionXL

Popular eCommerce site Threadless has had a “feature request” thread on their customer forum since 2005. For industries with thin profit margins, offering an incentive like 2% off isn’t very enticing, and in many verticals, and in some cases might require a significant lift in sales in order to break even. image source.