Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

The prevailing view of senior startup execs was that trying to build a company in SF would be too distracting for employees, and frankly most startup employees at the time preferred to live in the suburban areas of the peninsula rather than in the city. Thanks Chris, good read and hadn’t seen it before. link] Matthew Tagg.

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Up and Running

APRIL 19, 2016

If you don’t have buy-in from your partners, your employees, and your customers, you just went through a whole lot of something for a whole lot of nothing. That shared passion for the new brand fueled a 350 percent increase in revenues the following year. Tip #2: Include your employees. See Also: Want Your Team Engaged?

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Growthink Blog

JULY 6, 2011

I'm talking plans showing the entrepreneurs generating tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues in just a few years. Clearly these two companies are exceptions to the rule, and both have grown dramatically in terms of customers, revenues and footprint in just a few years. Just look at Groupon or Facebook.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

In 2011, “I was speaking at Mozcon in Seattle,” remembers Conversion.com ’s Stephen Pavlovich. Out of that result, we created a client with more than €5 million in revenue.” That person referred us to a former employee there who had just returned to big company life. The formula has worked for others.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Our business is located in House District 44 (Mike May), and Senate District 30 (Ted Harvey) and most of our ~15 employees live in these same or surrounding Districts in the South Denver area. Every software project would have to be separated into “standard” (taxable) and “custom” (non-taxable) categories. Citrix Presentation Server 4.0,

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Nudge is a fast pace, but still insightful with real world examples that you can apply her recent issue, talked about the, the idea of getting your customers, your prospects, in the habit of buying from you, or listening to you or following you. You have to balance that because without restaurants you kinda ha not gonna have customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

It just became immediately apparent that we were going to lose 80 to 90% of our revenue for a span of several months and there was just no way for us to keep most of our staff. Twitch is a customer of ours and I saw him at a dinner and he specifically told me that they were about to be closed for a month. There's just no way.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

In 2011, “I was speaking at Mozcon in Seattle,” remembers Conversion.com ’s Stephen Pavlovich. Out of that result, we created a client with more than €5 million in revenue.” That person referred us to a former employee there who had just returned to big company life. The formula has worked for others.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2016

Even some employee engagement and relations activities can come under the heading of public relations when the intent is to improve relationships and the probability exists that the program will impact public perception in some way. Corporate sponsorships. Create a Reserve Fund.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. By which I meannot that it has to make something physical, but that it has to haveone thing it sells to many people, rather than doing custom workfor individual clients. Custom work doesnt scale. To be a startup, a company hasto be a product business, not a service business.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I don’t actually have any employees. I have a few contractors to do the technical side of my work and a customer support person, but that’s it. I didn’t have that contractor doing customer support. Adding Ad Revenue. I’m the content creator. It doesn’t go any further than that. I had someone running the forum.

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

The death of Memamp, or ‘Reddit’s first employee’ The people that you meet on a program such as Y Combinator can be as important, if not more so, than the program itself. I was reddit’s first employee about 2 months later,” Chris tells me. Apples China App Store Brings in 18% of Downloads, 3% of Revenue.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Joel moved to Seattle, and worked at Microsoft for three years as a program manager on Excel 4.0 Lesson: You dn’t want your customers to feel locked into using your software. It helps with sales cycles because customers know that they can switch away if they so choose. Upon graduating, he went to work at Microsoft.

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