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[Review] Steve Jobs

YoungUpstarts

MAY 10, 2012

Icon, innovator, brilliant entrepreneur and creator of “insanely great” products, Jobs was the founder and CEO of Apple. He created fantastic products like the Macintosh computer, iPod, iTunes Store, iPhone and iPad, founded Disney beating Pixar Animations, and opened the much lauded Apple Store.

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3 Major Product Fails, And How To Avoid Their Mistakes

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Green ketchup, bottled water for pets, airport security “action figures”, yogurt shampoo – there have been some pretty epic product failures over the years. However the reality is that a significant majority of products don’t succeed. An estimated 75 to 95 percent of new products fail in the marketplace. Google Chromebook.

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Why Bitcoin is Gaining Worldwide Popularity

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 14, 2022

However, that has rapidly changed over the years due to several factors. Shortly after this event Bitcoin became more widely known through technology blogs like Slashdot and Reddit, but struggled to gain widespread public attention until 2011. From 2011 until 2013 Bitcoin’s value went from $1-$20 USD per Bitcoin.

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2011

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 31, 2010

I'm excited for 2011, and I want to share some of my plans for the coming year. In that spirit, I want to review the four priorities I laid out at the start of this year. Even "gurus" have to get out of the building, build a minimum viable product, and pivot? Thank you, 2010. But we still have a long way to go.

Lean

Lean Programming Software Review Channel

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Cracking The Code: SaaS Multiples: Recovery or Bubble?

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Wednesday, February 23, 2011. It would have been easy to explain the difference by changes in the 2010/2011 revenue growth projections but unfortunately that is not the case.

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Cracking The Code: BlablaCar - Travel Revolution

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 16, 2012

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking The Code on Facebook. S&M productivity (CAC ratio) for the SaaS 13 Index. software. (10). ► 2011. (2). Software 2.0: Cracking the SMB code.

Software Review

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5 Ways Leaders Can Eliminate Stress And Reboot For Change In 2021

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Leaders need to be empathetic to help their employees manage stress and stay productive, especially in these unprecedented times. The holidays always add stress, but company transitions heading into the New Year, magnified by the uncertainty we all face due to COVID-19, can send that stress off the charts.

Vesting

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Why do Startups need to invest in Conversation Intelligence in 2022?

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2021

For those of you who don’t know: Conversation Intelligence software integrates with your customer engagement platform to record, transcribe, and analyze sales calls, giving businesses access to crucial deal information, CRM data entry automation, faster sales reps review, and sales coaching. Customer demands . Market trends, etc.

Conversion Technical Review Startup Software Review

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How User Generated Reviews Affect Conversion Rates

ConversionXL

MAY 25, 2016

User generated reviews in general are tremendously influential in persuading people to buy. One study found that 88% of consumers trust online reviews as much as personal recommendations and 72% of consumers say positive reviews make them trust businesses more. How Do People Consume Product Reviews?

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Cracking The Code: In search of Europe's next tech stars.

Cracking the Code

AUGUST 3, 2011

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Wednesday, August 03, 2011. Cracking The Code on Facebook. S&M productivity (CAC ratio) for the SaaS 13 Index. software. (10). ▼ 2011. (2). Portfolio.

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Creative Ways To Improve Your Customer’s Online Experience

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2017

A survey conducted by Harris Interactive in 2011 , revealed that 89% of consumers would move on to another company due to a poor customer service and that 25% of consumers would gladly pay more for a pleasant customer experience. Go ahead to include how-to-videos on the website that demonstrate proper use of products.

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Excellent Showing at 59 Days of Code Startup Competition

Software By Rob

JUNE 23, 2010

I was a judge at last night’s 59 days of code startup competition here in Fresno. The Categories There were two categories: zero-code and in progress. Zero-code meant you had to start with…um, zero code on day 1. In progress meant you could have a partial or complete product, but it needs polish and customers.

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Cracking The Code: A Quick & Funny Summary of AdTech

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking The Code on Facebook. S&M productivity (CAC ratio) for the SaaS 13 Index. software. (10). ► 2011. (2). Software 2.0: Cracking the SMB code.

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Cracking The Code: State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment

Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Given that the revenues are not growing very fast, this means that most of the companies have reduced their sales force and focused on productivity improvement. software. (10).

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5 Free Platforms Entrepreneurs Should Be Using To Manage And Streamline Their Business

YoungUpstarts

MAY 9, 2014

Once you have reviewed that resource and you have your bearings on what it takes to get started, you can start thinking about streamlining and implementing extensions of your business (think accounting and payroll, apps, ecommerce, etc). Use Wix to build a professional website for free. Best way to manage your social media – Hootsuite.

Management Software Review eCommerce Entrepreneur

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Why do Startups need to invest in Conversation Intelligence in 2022?

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2021

For those of you who don’t know: Conversation Intelligence software integrates with your customer engagement platform to record, transcribe, and analyze sales calls, giving businesses access to crucial deal information, CRM data entry automation, faster sales reps review, and sales coaching. Customer demands . Market trends, etc.

Conversion Technical Review Startup Software Review

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup.

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The End Of Marketing As We Know It

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Instead, buyers are checking out product and service information in their own way, often through the Internet, their social network, or just plain word-of-mouth or customer reviews. He was building a better enterprise software product, and to get the word out, he organized ‘City Tour’ events and neighborhood ‘street teams.’

Marketing Software Review Technical Review Social Network

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7 Must Have Features If You Sell Products Online

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 24, 2013

That’s up 15% from 2011. You’re a crazy person if you have a product to sell and you don’t look at the World Wide Web as one of your top priority distribution channels. High Quality Product Photography. Positive Third Party Reviews. According to Comscore, over $43.2 Billion was spent online in 2012.

Software Review

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Cracking The Code: A funny perspective on Google innovation.

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking The Code on Facebook. S&M productivity (CAC ratio) for the SaaS 13 Index. software. (10). ► 2011. (2). Software 2.0: Cracking the SMB code.

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Why Call Tracking Metrics Matter To Your Marketing Efforts

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 11, 2022

Husband and wife co-founders, Todd and Laure Fisher founded CallTrackingMetrics in 2011 in their basement and together have grown it into an Inc. 500-rated, top-ranked conversation analytics software serving over 30,000 businesses around the world. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Like this show?

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Cracking The Code: Happy New Year 2010!

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 14, 2010

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking The Code on Facebook. S&M productivity (CAC ratio) for the SaaS 13 Index. software. (10). ► 2011. (2). Software 2.0: Cracking the SMB code.

Software Review

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Cracking The Code: Impact of the recession on SaaS.

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing productivity. One way to measure this productivity is to look at the Customer Acqusition Cost ratio that I have defined in a previous post.

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Cracking The Code: Laughing Out (c)Loud

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Labels: SaaS , software , Venture Capital. Cracking The Code on Facebook. S&M productivity (CAC ratio) for the SaaS 13 Index. software. (10). ► 2011. (2).

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Cracking The Code: United Breaks Guitar and more!

Cracking the Code

JULY 10, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking The Code on Facebook. S&M productivity (CAC ratio) for the SaaS 13 Index. software. (10). ► 2011. (2). Software 2.0: Cracking the SMB code.

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Cracking The Code: Hard times.

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 27, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking The Code on Facebook. S&M productivity (CAC ratio) for the SaaS 13 Index. software. (10). ► 2011. (2). Software 2.0: Cracking the SMB code.

Software Review

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3 Things to Consider When Staffing a Software Development Project

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. I'd approached Advanced Millennium Technologies, to develop our ERP software, last September.

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What does a Head of People do? Learning from Ada’s Chelsea MacDonald

Version One Ventures

MAY 23, 2019

And Sin-Mei Tsai , VP of Engineering at Shippo, discussed code quality. She was a data analyst and has been in People and leadership roles since 2011. Unlike “traditional” departments such as Engineering, Product, Sales, Marketing, BD, Customer Support/Success, People is a relatively new leadership function.

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Cracking The Code: Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your.

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking The Code on Facebook. S&M productivity (CAC ratio) for the SaaS 13 Index. software. (10). ► 2011. (2). Tuesday, December 01, 2009. at 12:41 PM.

Software Review

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Case Study: Lean UX at work

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 19, 2011

Jeff has been promoting the use of Lean UX as an effective method to spur greater innovation, quality and productivity in startups as well as within teams in larger organizations. Now entering our third year with Agile we’re continually trying to improve the efficiency, productivity and velocity of the various teams.

Lean

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Optimized Reviews May Be the Next Local SEO Edge :: Small Business.

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 14, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Google has started indexing local search results with phrases that accompany things like reviews.

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Startup Location Is Still A Critical Success Factor

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

Maxwell Wessel, in a recent article in the Harvard Business Review on this subject, points out the exception successes of Zappos in Las Vegas, Sendgrid’s massive growth in Colorado, and RightNow’s $1.5 Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. Energy is still the domain of Houston and Dubai.

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Cracking The Code: Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop.

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 7, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking The Code on Facebook. S&M productivity (CAC ratio) for the SaaS 13 Index. software. (10). ► 2011. (2). Software 2.0: Cracking the SMB code.

Software Review

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

The part of the movement that resonates the most with me (in my words) is that entrepreneurs should keep their capital expenditures really low while they’re experimenting with their product and determining whether there is a large market for what they do. Rinse & repeat. It takes options off of the table. You have a hunch.

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Cracking The Code: New SaaS 13 Index: Welcome to LogMeIn.

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking The Code on Facebook. S&M productivity (CAC ratio) for the SaaS 13 Index. software. (10). ► 2011. (2). Software 2.0: Cracking the SMB code.

Software Review

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Cracking The Code: Made to Stick!

Cracking the Code

JUNE 23, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. technologies are starting to change the way companies market their products. Cracking The Code on Facebook. S&M productivity (CAC ratio) for the SaaS 13 Index. software. (10).

Software Review

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The Boston Consumer Tech Year In Review

Rob Go

DECEMBER 28, 2011

So I thought I’d jot down some of the highlights I have seen from my vantage point in this 2011 Boston Consumer Web Year in Review. Zipcar: Ok, not exactly consumer web/software, but a great consumer tech company nonetheless. IPO’s/Exits. Tripadvisor: An amazing entrepreneurial story. market cap.

Technical Review

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The Future of Ad Tracking: Navigating the Google Analytics Landscape

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Julian (09:19): Yeah, Google Tag Manager is a really interesting tool because previously we have these JavaScript codes that we would need to install on our website in order to have the functionality of Google Analytics and know when the users are coming through the website.

Analytics Software Review Channel Europe

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Twitter Link Roundup #115 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2012

The image above is taken in Takotna, Alaska during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on March 9, 2011. More phenomenal photos from 2011 are in the Other section below. Five Tips To Improve Employee Performance Reviews – [link]. The ideal product manager – [link]. The ideal product manager – [link].

Social Media Small Business Design Media

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Cracking The Code: Happy New Year 2008!

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Happy New Year to you, Cracking-the-code reader! and online gaming companies and 2/3 looking at the software and SaaS industry. Intego is the leading Security Software Suite for Mac.

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Cracking The Code: Bessemer Venture Partners Expands BVP VII.

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking The Code on Facebook. S&M productivity (CAC ratio) for the SaaS 13 Index. software. (10). ► 2011. (2). Software 2.0: Cracking the SMB code.

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Cracking The Code: Getting through the downturn: a few thoughts.

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Thursday, November 13, 2008. Getting through the downturn: a few thoughts for SaaS companies planning their 2009 budget. With this decline, the average EV/08 rev. multiple fell down to ~2.2x

Software Review

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Cracking The Code: Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 22, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. The company had the chance of selling a very sticky product to large customers paying upfront, so there was no need to improve the sales bonuses based on cash collection and multi-year contracts.

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The Power of Connected Play

Feld Thoughts

MAY 5, 2014

Orbotix is creating a new game platform that combines common physical objects, smart phones, and a software marketplace. Their first product will “reinvent the ball” through the creation of a robotic ball controlled by a smart phone. just before the end of 2011 so their first real year in the market was in 2012.

Software Review

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