Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

I have conversations with entrepreneurs and other VCs on a daily basis about fund raising, the prices of deals, how much companies should raise, etc. You’re unlikely to want to make this sort of investment with the product or the market not yet validated. I saw this kind of pricing when I first entered the VC market in 2007.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

I think we all know by now that a conversation is happening on Twitter and that this extends to talking about brands. My intuition is that this is why when Twitter initially took off (around the time of SxSW in 2007) it was an open “publish to the world” platform and the trend continued. So why is this important for businesses?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

My management book, Ignited, was released in 2007 and serves a guide and champion for middle managers. I really enjoy events where there are interesting people with interesting conversations to be had. I’m sure it sparks interesting conversations. But I also like to be home with my family (or playing volleyball or whatever).

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

That’s a bit like imagining Apple launching the 2007 iPhone and then not having 10-years of constant improvements to maintain its market leadership position. The more people that see your brand as the innovator the more “earned media” the company gets and the product becomes synonymous with the category. Brand matters.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The classic lifespan of successful products is a story in four parts: Introduction Growth Maturity Decline. How this story plays out has a lot to do with the type of product and how it’s improved over time, if at all. In this article, we’ll look at the different stages of the product lifecycle through the lens of marketing.

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David Cohen

AUGUST 22, 2012

Here’s the data: 2007: 10%. But this forced a good conversation about not taking money that was on the table. Our conversation broke out into two threads. However, the goal of the conversation and the context was to figure out how to own the market and create the biggest pie for everyone. Real money.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. Otherwise, Ive not seen much. *

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

If you imagine that they did most of their initial investments between 2002-2007 then it’s been 3 years of mostly doing follow-on investments in those old deals. If they’re likely to raise a new fund then you might be OK but at least have the conversation with them. How much of a fund is actually invested in new deals?

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 23, 2010

In the mid 1990’s I used an email client that did a pretty good job of “threading conversations.&# The UI was kind of crummy, but it did some interesting things. It started being talked about a few years ago when it threaded conversations appeared as a core feature of Gmail. It was called Lotus Notes.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive I recently met with The Hive a new incubator in Orange County. What I really liked in my conversations with The Hive is that they are willing to work with and fund ventures that would never get VC dollars.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2013

Want to know how to deal a serious blow to your landing page conversions? In other words, one of the best ways to improve landing page conversions is to maintain scent: make pre-click and post-click message + look & feel match. While people are browsing your site, they’re having a silent conversation in their mind.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

Through comment conversations with many of you I tried to emphasize that it isn’t enough to just have one attribute. They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. I joined GRP Partners in 2007 before they raised their current fund (we closed a $200 million fund in March 2009).

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Historically more revenue came from distribution/lead-gen (57% in 2007), but this tipped in 2008 though appears to be steady from 2009 to 2010 at about 58% advertising and 42% distribution.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

It is the new cocktail party conversation. I believe that huge financial, productivity and technical gains come from new innovation rather than derivative thinking. I saw VCs doing crazy things in 2007-08 when I first entered the VC market – crazy prices, limited due diligence, large funding rounds.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 17, 2020

In a recent series of virtual events organised by FirstMinute Capital, I got to hear Peter Fenton, partner at Benchmark and a fixture of the Forbes Midas List , since 2007. Avoiding tough conversations or conflict with direct reports is a sign of choosing popularity over accountability. Temptation #1 – Choosing status over results.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

I became a VC 12 years ago in 2007 when the pace of deals was much slower. I had just left Salesforce.com where I was VP, Products, after they had acquired my second startup. Users type a search query into their search bar and Google knows the “purchase intent” of the customer. particularly as you achieve scale.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 29, 2015

Many drinks were had, many conversations were enjoyed, and many plans were hatched. Around 2004, after the dust on the mess that was my world post-Internet bubble settled and I shifted into a mode where I grinded it out at Mobius until we started Foundry Group in 2007, I decided I was thinking about it completely wrong.

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www.peterdrew.net

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Peter Drew Internet Marketing Tools Online Blog Home Recieve an Email for Each New Post Here Contact Peter Drew You are here: Home / Internet Marketing / How to find a good programmer or web developer How to find a good programmer or web developer October 1, 2007 By Peter Drew Leave a Comment 1. If you do indeed create a successful product.

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2017

We’d never had anyone pay us for a product or a service. We also wanted to get our Spanish speaking skills from conversational to fluent. But when I was working as a reporter in 2007, I covered the purchase of a local ski resort in Montana by business mogul Bill Foley. We’d never hired anyone.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2013

In today’s article we’ll take a look at the world of beautiful people, products and design. Welcome to the world of beautiful design, beautiful people, beautiful products, beautiful everything. The year year is 2007, it’s early July and you are on the market for a new mobile phone. I hope you enjoy your stay.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2016

Not since the initial popularity of Twitter in 2007 has a product so befuddled people. We’re going to try and do some post-production if we can. was originally published in Both Sides of the Table on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. Why would a VC do that?

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

In 2007, launched “America’s Giving” challenge with Facebook and Parade magazine. Follow us and join the conversation. We have a new product, PorticoClub.com, which is the same product at a lower price point. We were seeing this movement towards causes on Facebook and elsewhere. We wanted to direct some of that energy.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

In normal times, every company operates against some hypothetical growth model—a data-driven framework that describes how your product grows and how you acquire new users. In normal times, every company operates against some hypothetical growth model—a data-driven framework that describes how your product grows and how you acquire new users.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 27, 2012

Among the reasons we're excited is that Marc helped popularize the idea of product/market fit , homing in on the absolute importance of creating a product that resonates with a specific market--a key concept that is foundational to many Lean Startup techniques. On the other hand, if you ask engineers, many will say product.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

SXSW audiences were among the first to witness the emergence of Twitter when they won the Best New App in 2007. The entry period for 2020 will open in late June of this year for projects or products launched or completely redesigned within the calendar year 2019 (between January 1, 2019 and December 31, 2019).

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 15, 2012

How do consumers research and purchase products (online and offline)? #4. I spend 70% of my time in the US and for those discussions I'm primary looking at speed (connection above), mobile penetration (yes, 2007 was the year of mobile!), You can do this analysis for a whole variety of products.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

It started in 2007 here in Austin and was founded by my friend Matt Cohen. The market for the product simply wasn’t a good one. If it wasn’t for a fierce conversation that I had with Arthur Patterson, the co-founder of Accel Partners, Coremetrics would have gone out of business in early 2001.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 10, 2009

United apologized, plans to use the video internally to help " change its culture ," and, according to a spokeswoman for the carrier: "We are in conversation with one another to make what happened right." S&M productivity (CAC ratio) for the SaaS 13 Index. "10 Things Every CEO Needs to Know About Product D.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 23, 2017

User Experience is the way a person interacts with and uses a product, system or service. A great product experience starts with UX followed by UI. Both are essential for the product’s success. UserTesting.com is one of many sites that make testing the usability of your products easier. That means more business for you!

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

You want to see your product or service performing in the hands of real users. Your Product Plan must fit into context of your overall business mission. I’m never surprised when I see product development driven by engineers proceeding at top speed developing the next cool thing. Some products are very simple to message.

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Austin Startup

JULY 2, 2021

Chargify, the leading billing platform for B2B SaaS, announced today the massive productivity improvements and decrease in operating costs that CareerPlug has achieved using its new Chargify Business Intelligence product. This saves our operations and finance teams hours of manual work each week. and Canada.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

I think you’ll learn more in watching the 20-minute interview that Troy Carter and I did than you will in most tech interviews because he cuts down to the raw essence of what it takes any product to be discovered and nurtured and the power of being able to connect the right emerging artist with the right influencers in a market.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 27, 2015

But now your conversion rate looks the same as when you started. In fact, it’s easy to project the predicted ROI of optimization ( click here to download conversion optimization ROI calculator ). If asked to measure improvement in conversion rate due to optimization efforts, most people would point to Google Analytics.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Even with the turmoil in the capital markets in the second half of 2007, it was another record year for merger and acquisition activity. But in 2007, after Jumpstarts success, he decided to get serious. million of consulting work in start-ups in 2007. Be Connected & Productive Anywhere, Any Time. Graham liked the idea.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. It’s clear that AngelList wants to help bring much of the transactional conversations and introductions that happen at the early stage of hiring and fundraising via word of mouth or in meetings online.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 24, 2019

You mean we are going to allow negative reviews about the products we carry on our own website , and then get stuck with all of this inventory?!” The iPhone wasn’t out yet (that was 2007). Google invited us in to do an early integration for product reviews embedded in Google Search, to help launch a new form of advertising.

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