View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

For those of us that have been working in the startup and technology space for at least the past 10 years, these addresses mean two things. First: They’re all based in California, and more specifically, in San Francisco, Mountain View, and Menlo Park, respectively. They’re All in California.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 4, 2014

I think as a tech industry we have bred a culture that places more emphasis on product excellence than managing human behavior. Yet talk with people at Twitter these days and many seem to feel like they are part of a movement – and that doesn’t just come due to product success. Those are the easy cases.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Dr. White has one of the highest Yelp scores among private practice optometrists and has one of the highest per-patient revenues in the country. Take that opportunity to ask for online reviews and referrals. . His practice, Complete Family Vision Care Optometry, is in San Diego, California. Learn more here: [link].

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The Next Web

JANUARY 23, 2014

Timo Rein is the cofounder & CEO of Pipedrive , and was previously the cofounder of Vain & Partners - the leading Sales Training company in the Baltics. In California, you are admired, rather than shamed, for your failure. A trial-by-fire environment like ours means that we can’t hope to launch a company without revenue.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Your goal was to preserve your cash while you turned these guesses into facts and searched for a repeatable and scalable sales model. A Progress Graph on the right visually shows how far you’ve come (in whatever units of goodness you’re tracking – revenue, units, users, etc.)

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The sales helped them raise $30K and the attention of a startup incubator, which offered them training and another $20K in funding. Over the years, despite massive losses, Netflix was able to bounce back and improve its revenue by 47%. Having a simple background in sales and marketing , he came up with attractive employee benefits.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. While there was an occasional bad apple, the public markets rewarded companies with revenue growth and sustainable profits.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

And it was going to mention the two words that SuperMac marketing needed to live and breathe: revenue and profit. To do that we will create end-user demand and drive it into the sales channel, educate the channel and customers about why our products are superior, and help Engineering understand customer needs and desires.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

This post describes how following the traditional product development can lead to a “startup death spiral.&# In the next posts that follow, I’ll describe how this model’s failures led to the Customer Development Model – offering a new way to approach startup sales and marketing activities. The board raises a collective eyebrow.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

It's been just about two years since Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits released their self-published book The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development (you can see my original review here ). Their goal is to share stories of Lean Startup applied in many industries and domains outside of tech startups.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 5, 2019

A sales pitch on Twitter or Facebook has the potential to be seen by thousands of people, but anyone who isn’t checking their timeline right then will likely miss it. Review the laws for where you plan to send cold emails. Sure, it may get the message opened—but it won’t get you any closer to a sale. Cold emails are persistent.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2009

The assets you can protect may include your “core technology&# like source code, hardware designs, architectures, processes, formulas. non-public technology. technology, business information. _. new technology. within one year of sale, offer for sale, public disclosure or public use. Trade Secrets. _.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

It started out as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, and Design. In the bayarea, TEDx Bay Area Women organized an event hosted at SAP in Palo Alto, California. I had no idea what people did whether tech, entertainment, or design. President of The Tech Museum.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). Optimization also helps you optimize ad sales if you’re doing pure advertising.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. San Francisco, California. As The Trial Rages On, Court Filing Sheds New Light On Apple And Samsung Device Sales. Also on AOL Tech.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

29 Things I, as a designer, wish more tech startups knew – [link]. desperation for software talent has moved even small and midsize tech companies to make acqui-hires.” – [link]. It’s Not Just Technical Debt; Everything Gets Painful & Slow as You Scale - [link]. Who Wants to Be a Billionaire? - [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

Carl was also worldwide head of stores at Home Depot when Hurricane Katrina hit, running sales out of the backs of trucks and accepting IOUs for payment. 9:33) Scaling Up Excellence , process debt, technical debt, and human capital debt, plus rapid prototyping during the pandemic. (13:58) Stanley McChrystal's Team of Teams. (29:34)

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

This ad is packed with trust boosting factors like a ratings extension, a review, social proof, and sitelinks that provide more detailed options while highlighting service benefits. Ask your sales team: How do different product categories do throughout the year? What days are the sale staff present? Exercise: image source.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The subscription box industry is growing rapidly thanks to a steady revenue model and tapping into people’s love for surprises. Marketing and sales plan. Financial summary : Project your revenue for the first few years. Creating a buyer persona puts you in the customer’s shoes to guide marketing and sales decisions.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 16, 2022

His first book, How to Get a Meeting with Anyone, introduced the concept of Contact Marketing and was named one of the top 64 sales books of all time. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Stu is a bestselling business author, marketer, and Wall Street Journal cartoonist. StuHeinecke.com. Like this show?

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Gust

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

We recently started a series of posts on establishing the pre-money valuation of pre-revenue startup companies for purposes of investment by seed and startup investors. Dave Berkus is a founding member of the Tech Coast Angels in Southern California, a lecturer and educator. Product Rollout or Sales. Zero to $0.5

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 14, 2011

BUY2 is Israel’s largest daily deal site based on total Facebook friends and average revenue per deal. Here is some data from August 6, 2011: Israeli deal site Facebook Friends # of Sales Cost Revenue (in NIS) buy2.co.il I have just checked today’s deal, for August 13, 2011, BUY2 made a revenue of ?

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 11, 2022

I am proud I have worked diligently to be my best self, produce my best work, and keep my client's best interest a priority, no matter what. The fact that we have been able to overcome the pandemic blues, improve our market outreach, make some well-timed hires and increase our baseline sales (over 30%) is something I am most proud of in 2022.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

It started out as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, and Design. In the bayarea, TEDx Bay Area Women organized an event hosted at SAP in Palo Alto, California. I had no idea what people did whether tech, entertainment, or design. President of The Tech Museum.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

The message, the customer data, the ability to reach current and prospective customers, drive new sales as well as repeat sales, experiment with new ideas and offers, and so much more. You can compare customers in California, Idaho, and Florida; new and existing customers; or various demographics, etc., That is okay.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

It is also an excellent platform to address the questions from prospects and help clarify issues and objections for any sales process, which is one of the primary ways Voluble is seeing some of its major early customers using it. The next event will be on Tuesday, November 22, 2011, at 8:00 AM (PDT), register to attend here. MapWide.com.

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online.wsj.com

MARCH 4, 2013

Loading… Tech. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. more in Tech. App stores generally take a 30% cut of the sale. That is due in part to the greater availability of low-end Android smartphones and tablets, which tend to attract lower-income people compared with iPhone and iPad users. » More.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

All I have access to is just a cursory review of their digital existence. Outcomes: Revenue | Ideas Funded Behavior: Path Length | Cart Abandonment Rate Acquisition: Assisted Conversions | Share of Search. Every ecommerce site has to obsess about Revenue. B2B / Enterprise Sales: Salesforce. A quick best practice.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Tech: Blogs. Technology Live. Talking Tech. Talking Your Tech. Sponsored Links Americans with heaps of stuff, skills and time are connecting online with tech-savvy and early adopters eager to share and rent homes, cars, tools and services in exchange for deep savings. Skip to Main Content. Game Hunters.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 4, 2022

She teaches a Digital Marketing course (virtually) at the University of California in Irvine. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! She teaches a digital marketing course at the university of California in Irvine, and is also the author of a new book. Duct Tape Transcript.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

You might notice what’s not on that list above: revenue, investors. No revenue isn’t always a problem for venture-style businesses; no investors + no revenue = challenges for most founders without tremendous self-funding. I’m a wild-eyed, competitive founder with totally unique-to-tech expertise in this area.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

“The tech industry creates roughly 10 awesome companies per year,” he says. “Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. She has been covering technology news for over 15 years, most recently as a senior editor for TechCrunch. There are 10 awesome companies a year, and they will get funded.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Loading… Tech. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. Mossberg Reviews the iPhone 5. Businesses For Sale |. » More. » More. Loading… New York. » More. » More. Loading… Business. » More. » More. Blding Mat.,

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Is it a 3-year fad, or will new technologies like 3-D keep going to the movies from being relegated to the dustbin of history like Vaudeville, the afternoon newspaper, the evening news, the variety show, and the compact-disc? What is the future for good-old fashioned DVD rentals and sales? How about Internet Video? Annual U.S.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 29, 2014

A venture feasibility study analyzes an idea from several perspectives: market opportunity, competition, resources available, resource gaps, financial viability, operational issues, intellectual property rights, development timeline and technology needs. Are sales growing or shrinking? What employee actions are rewarded or punished?

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

If “Smucker’s” can be slapped on food and annually generate billions of sales, chances are that your company name, no matter how mediocre, will not preclude you from achieving significant success. However, if this is true, “Aardvark” would have been a more clever choice and equally as relevant to online book sales.

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