Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Jeremy Johnson , founder of Andela , which embeds talented software engineers on the African continent into top engineering organizations worldwide. Jeremy Johnson.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 20, 2017

million seed round, we’re looking back at our journey with founders Mike Murchison and David Hariri. Just after closing Fund II in October 2014, Boris took a trip to Toronto. With Mike and David ferociously developing product and doing sales, they launched the Ada bot with early customers like Medium, Kik and Wattpad.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Jeremy Johnson , founder of Andela , which embeds talented software engineers on the African continent into top engineering organizations worldwide. Jeremy Johnson.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Before graduating, I decided to forgo the finance path and instead dove into engineering and later sales and product management roles at VersaSuite (health IT) in Austin. He co-founded the first angel investor group in the Bitcoin space, BitAngels , in 2013, which grew to over 500 members globally. We were infatuated with tech.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In consumer packaged goods, the benchmark for a “highly successful” product launch is no easy feat: $50 million in first-year sales. Successful demand generation campaigns break down silos between marketing and sales. Hugo Woodhead is the founder of Pilcro , which sells brand management software. Test launch tiny products.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Airbnb founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia had difficulty securing funding, so they launched a mini project to build some funds and catch investors' attention. The sales helped them raise $30K and the attention of a startup incubator, which offered them training and another $20K in funding. Photo Credit: Jack Underwood. 3- Sam Walton.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

GrowthHackers founder and former Head of Growth at Dropbox, Sean Ellis , coined the term: “A growth hacker is a person whose true north is growth. Where campaigns to build brand awareness and generate top-of-funnel sales drive traditional marketing, data across the entire customer lifecycle drives growth hacking in marketing.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2022

Paul is the founder and CEO of Marketing AI Institute, and the founder of PR 20/20, HubSpot’s first partner agency. He is the author of The Marketing Performance Blueprint (Wiley, 2014) and The Marketing Agency Blueprint (Wiley, 2012); and the creator of the Marketing AI Conference (MAICON). So Paul, welcome back.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 13, 2018

Founded in 2014, Epic Impact has been tinkering with the best ways to develop and up-level the most abundant leaders on the planet. Reading all the books and blog posts on personal development and sales training does not translate into being a top producer. And in this case, Epic Impact was born.

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2017

Part of our agreement was that if the company ever sold, he’d receive a percentage of the sale. Writing up a contract is especially important if you’re working with co-founders. Sales dropped dramatically in a matter of weeks, and still haven’t gone back to their 2014 high. Did it need be bug-free?

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NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

In 2014 Niesh co-founder, Jae Yoo, now 26, had $10 in his bank account, and had to choose between printing past papers for exam study, or feeding himself. Download the ecentre study “Where To Grow”, including a checklist for founders wanting to go global, at [link]. The post Go global or grow local?

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 17, 2020

by Juan Pablo Segura, President and Co-Founder of Babyscripts. Juan Pablo Segura founded Babyscripts in 2014 with the vision that internet enabled medical devices would transform the delivery of pregnancy care. As the president of BabyScripts, Juan-Pablo has focused his efforts on business development, sales and fundraising.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

According to Fortune , in 2006, female founders were involved in only 2.95 Teams of male and female founders and the implication for team composition. Obviously, startup teams aren’t always comprised of all men or all women; teams of mixed gender founders exist, and some of them get funding. 33 billion in venture funding.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 9, 2014

by Eric Groves, CEO and co-founder of Alignable. And by working together, you can also reach more local customers by co-marketing the event. Small Business Week is a great time to reflect on ways local businesses can become stronger in the year ahead. Connect with others nearby to become stronger.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

He started it in 2009 with 10 employees and sold it to Susino Umbrella in 2014. This sale turned him into a billionaire. This company’s valuation peaked at $10 billion in 2013/2014. Peter is the founder of Bay Street Capital Partners. Guss is 28 years old and he is the co-founder of Octane Lending.

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JANUARY 9, 2014

No clear vision or purpose This should be the starting point for any startup founder, but it’s often overlooked. Whilst the tide is turning, there’s still a need to educate startup founders about the competitive advantage well-designed products and services can bring. Life’s too short to build something nobody wants.” growth hacking.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 3, 2015

In 1994 Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said, “retail banks are dinosaurs, they can be bypassed,” in a Newsweek interview. Bill Phelan, president of small business ratings company PayNet, estimates that alternative lending companies, which provide billions of dollars in loans annually, grew 100% in 2014. Filling a Need.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 29, 2014

In the far future, when someone sits down and writes the definitive history of payments (riveting), 2014 is going to be a big year. But as big as 2014 was, 2015 has the potential to be even bigger. 2015 will be a good year to be a mobile wallet or point-of-sale terminal company. by Bill Clerico, CEO of WePay. A lot happened!

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2014

According to the Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index® for the First Quarter 2014, the Q1 increase marks seven consecutive quarters of positive sentiment among Silicon Valley venture capitalists. The significant findings include the following: Founders need to live in the right place. No surprises here.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

“This investment will be dedicated to consolidate our leadership in the markets in which we are already present and accelerate growth in recently opened regions, such as Asia,” said Jon Uriarte, CEO & co-founder of Ticketbis. .

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Dan is the Co-founder and president of Podcast Movement, the world’s largest conference and trade show for the podcast industry. Look, if you work in sales, wanna learn how to sell or just peek at the latest sales news. And that's where we started in 2014. Marketing Podcast with Dan Franks. Get $150.00

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Mike Michalowicz

MAY 27, 2014

May 21, 2014 – 15 finalists have been chosen in the RuleBreaker awards. The category winners are: Service Provider, Under $1M in Sales: Casey Bankford of Slimbooks, www.slimbooks.com , whose slim books break the rules of publishing. RULEBREAKER AWARDS ANNOUNCES 15 CATEGORY WINNERS; GRAND-PRIZE WINNER TO BE NAMED JUNE 10.

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Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2014

According to the Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index® for the First Quarter 2014, the Q1 increase marks seven consecutive quarters of positive sentiment among Silicon Valley venture capitalists. The significant findings include the following: Founders need to live in the right place. No surprises here.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 28, 2015

For one, your customers are using social media on mobile (social media usage from mobile increased 23% in 2014.) By integrating user-generated content into native apps and mobile web, your brand will begin to move the needle to drive higher mobile conversion rates and sales.

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Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2015

Unfortunately, a series of bad judgments followed, including firing the company’s long-time ad agency, laying off 10% of its corporate staff and thousands of middle managers, and ridding the stores of sales and discounts. in the three years it was on sale in the US, while the UK producers went bust in 2012.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

by Alon Alroy, co-founder and CMO of Bizzabo . Don’t miss the small business sales and marketing event of the year! Alon Alroyis co-founder and CMO of Bizzabo , a startup developing the soon to be standard networking app for events, conferences and meetups. Hopefully we will see you there! InfusionCon.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 21, 2017

In order to support continued ARR growth upstream, some of the best companies successfully use professional services as a weapon and make implementation, support and training part of the sale. See Jeff Leventhal’s post ( boldstart venture partner and Workrails cofounder/CEO) on why services continue to matter for cloud vendors.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 29, 2014

What has your business accomplished in 2014, and what is still left to do? Too many founders try to do huge advertising bursts at the end of the year in a lazy attempt to hit sales numbers. 3. . – Kelsey Meyer, Influence & Co. Closing Q4 Sales. Everyone needs to reset themselves, especially founders.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 22, 2015

Like previous years, the 2015 conference will feature 100+ expert speakers on topics ranging from corporate entrepreneurship to analytics, product development, engineering, sales, marketing, and design. Register today to take advantage of our Spring sale prices. There were two big lessons that we learned in 2014.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Stephanie is the founder of Grow Disrupt , a company that designs & produces educational, application-focused events that re-invigorate & inspire entrepreneurs. She has studied the practical application of psychology for more than a decade in sales, marketing, and people management. Our Founder and fearless leader, Denise W.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

I sat down (virtually) with Chainalysis co-founder and CEO Michael Gronager to discuss his learnings from almost seven years at the helm of a high-growth company. I met [Kraken co-founder] Jesse Powell here. ? It was associated with criminal activity, hacks, online drug sales, terrorism and more.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. I began my business in 2014 because, well, it was just time. So I cut the corporate cord and co-founded Finespun Clothing. Thanks to Dean Cycon, Dean’s Beans Organic Coffee Co. ! #19 Thanks to Adam Hergenrother, Hergenrother Enterprises ! #12

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

This is a guest post from Rob May , a co-founder and CEO of Backupify , which raised $19.5M and sold to Datto in late 2014. In 2010, we were recruiting for a Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Backupify, and it was clear that many of the people I was interviewing wanted the CEO role. He was right.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

This summer, I landed endorsements by Jack Canfield of Chicken Soup, master marketer Seth Godin, the founders of BNI and GreenBiz.com, and several others for my 10th book, Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World, forthcoming in March from Morgan James (and already available for preorder). #6 – Wonderful & Productive Summer.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Dan is the Co-founder and president of Podcast Movement, the world’s largest conference and trade show for the podcast industry. Jason Bay is a leading sales expert, and he talks with other leading sales experts to get you the information you need. And that's where we started in 2014. This is John Jantsch.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Mike Arsenault and his two co-founders—all with technical backgrounds—built their MVP while working full time for other SaaS companies. “We An engineer by training, Founder and CEO Larry Gadea built the MVP of Envoy’s first product, Visitors, by himself using only free versions of software. “I spent $20k on their MVP.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

The founder of early internet startup Freeloader (acquired for $38 million in 1996) and anti-spam company Brightmail (acquired for $370 million in 2004), Paul went on to pioneer the ride-hailing space. In other words, what percentage of sales are available to pay for growth, and to reward investors for financing that growth.

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