Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

My first company was founded in Ireland, headquartered in England and had country operations in the UK, France & Germany. Due to the language and culture issues in Europe we opted for a country structure with an MD in each country and local sales, marketing & customers support staff. We faced it when we were small.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Shifting the Huawei/ZTE 5G debate in certain European countries like Germany. To form a digital development fund to coordinate the R&D and the distribution pathways with our like-minded partners. And you’re going to see efforts to selectively decouple when it comes to our capital markets. We have a long way to go.

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Brandanew

APRIL 15, 2016

This is a guest post by Olga Rabo from Berlin, Germany and Olga shares her tips on Content Marketing for E-Commerce players. P.S. Don’t forget to sign in and register for our Content Marketing for Beginners eCourse. Content Marketing For E-Commerce: A Stepwise Guide For Beginners. It’s OPEN! Over to Olga!

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Earlier this year, I published a post that was very bullish on an emerging electricity grid powered primarily by distributed energy resources (DERs) like solar, wind, and batteries. A surplus of DERs already presents a massive challenge for grids from Texas to Germany, a problem colloquially known as the duck curve.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

BigBand Networks, which has more than 200 customers in North America, Asia and Europe, provides broadband service providers with digital video networking solutions designed to make it easier to distribute, manage and monetize video. HADASIT LAUNCHES JEWISH-ARAB BIOMED INCUBATOR IN GALILEE. Pluristem Therapeutics Ltd.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JULY 7, 2011

Research and development, sample making, marketing the product and perhaps even handling some of the preliminary sales are some of the stages of expansion. My immediate goal was to have a showroom in every market in the US – Atlanta, Dallas, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. One of my personal goals has always been retention.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

And without revenue how do we know if we achieved product/market fit to exit Customer Validation?” The first question to ask is: “Does your startup have market risk or is it dominated by technical risk?” Lean Startup /Customer Development is used to find answers to the unknowns about customers and markets.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 7, 2017

The scope of digital tech for work and money, in terms of addressable markets, is almost mind-boggling. and life insurance segments, you see a $2T (yes, trillion) annual market where nearly all transactions occur offline. Though even there, you’ve seen startups like Clover Health , Oscar , Devoted Health , and others grow rapidly.)

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 7, 2013

Cologne, Germany-based Hotel Reservation Service (HRS) , the leading hotel portal in Europe for business and private travelers, late last month announced its official expansion in the Asia Pacific with the opening of its regional headquarters in Singapore. “It’s not just about having good technology, which we also have.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

The African-American community with a global movement known as the Afro-Tech quietly mastered blockchain/distributed ledger technology several years ago to benefit urban communities. Silicon Valley don’t want you guys out there to see Jessie Owens beat Germany in the 1936 Olympics because they saw how you loved Jessie Owens after that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 19, 2016

By Ernst Gemassmer, Chairman, Startup Professionals Some time ago you needed to achieve success and size before venturing into international markets. In order to manage international growth your company needs to be directly involved in international expansion rather than relying on distribution partners.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

You work tirelessly to understand your customer, market, and competition so you can differentiate. Voice-of-customer (VoC) research, user research, competitor research, and insights on jobs-to-be-done (JTBD) can inform your marketing strategy. . Market share. Brand tracking is how you measure if those efforts are paying off.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 3, 2012

While I had just finished an approximately year long quest to see as many design museums as possible — in New York, Miami, Atlanta, London, and Essen, Germany — Derek had just visited New York City and experienced some pop-up retail stores. We have interns for marketing, design, content development, and fundraising. Stay tuned!).

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 2, 2013

Do you understand how elements of your paid, owned, earned inbound marketing efforts drive each of these? In the above case I was astonished that while our email was primarily a direct response "here's a coupon to convert" marketing, it actually drove more conversions via other channels (!). I hear you. No worries.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2011

what distribution channel? Give us an estimate of market size). Uwe Vogt (MBA, Jun 2011) Technical Director & Co-Owner, Sideo Germany (Sub. Vogt Holding), PhD Mechanical Engineering (FAU, Germany), MS Engineering (ETH Zurich, Switzerland. The market is large enough for a scalable business.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The right typeface is often the key to strong brand identity , a well-designed website, sharp looking brochures, and strong marketing materials. But there’s much confusion and misinformation about typefaces, fonts and how designers and marketers can lawfully use them commercially. There’s no shame in this. Does the U.S.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Our advice to future entrepreneurs in Germany, and elsewhere, is to be thoughtful about the first money you raise; think hard how much you require, who you raise it from and what your investors are getting in return. The real value that these partners can bring is through being great customers, great suppliers or a distribution partner.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 14, 2021

They don’t necessarily exclude each other, but you’ll often find many marketers pleading their allegiance to one of the two camps. You do this through a series of techniques that range from content marketing (attracting leads) to chatbots and surveys (providing value). What is the age distribution of your female demographic?

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 13, 2013

His career began in 1992 when he worked in the financial market at Banco Nacional in Brazil. My aim is not to bash Facebook or Twitter – they are incredible tools for social connectivity and the distribution of news. Claudio Gandelman is the CEO and founder of Teckler. Death of digital content.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 17, 2018

What started as an e-commerce hobby selling men’s leggings in 2015 quickly turned into a global business with a steady increase in sales and stockists in the US, UK, Australia and Germany. Turns out there’s a huge market for men’s leggings. Tell us your story. Why did you start your business? What makes you unique?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). The strategy of GigaOm and where they differentiate in the market.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 4, 2020

As the son of immigrants from Cuba and Germany, Max has deep faith in the power of American ingenuity. Prior to Covid Act Now, I was at Google and Firebase as a senior data science and Go-To-Market leader. Max Henderson : distributed around the country and the world. He died suddenly in Germany. Eric Ries : Max.

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David Teten

JUNE 7, 2011

Our session looks at the rise of socially enabled platforms that blend commerce with community, where reputations trump credit ratings, and where hyper-distributed service businesses outgrow traditional monolithic suppliers. Cameron Tonkinwise, Associate Dean for Sustainability, Parsons The New School for Design.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

This makes it more difficult to time app updates to marketing requirements and to rapidly respond to changing business needs. In the traditional approach, native app updates are distributed via an application store, and the user is informed that an update is available, although they are not required to install the latest update.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

So really it is not just the English-speaking, but since you're talking about addressable market, I had a thought about it. And really the addressable market is not just the people, English-speaking, connected to internet, but rather I would say whoever is willing to spend half an hour reading an article about the coronavirus.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Great innovations always require a set of interlocking discoveries, such as these: scientific discoveries, ideas in what you can build with technology, available markets for technologies, means of reaching those markets, the talent to build organizations, and. That’s how we’ll produce and distribute more food.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2011

But getting well paying job in technology and importantly distributed all across this country is important to the future competition of the US in the world and important to helping solve our economic problems. But it maps to the trade school paradigm that exists in Germany (which isn’t perfect either).

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Whether you’re wondering what site search you should use or what is the best email marketing tool, knowledge is power. Inbound Marketing vs Interruption marketing. Email marketing. Market Research. Promotions/Marketing. Put up a LaunchRock Page and get your marketing working right away.

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uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Above you see the distribution among the top 100 grossing e-commerce websites in regards to the number of checkout steps they have. Yes a 1B+ company most certainly are doing something right; your market timing, brand positioning, product design, pricing, logistics, SEO, page navigation, product images, community engagement, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

I sometimes feel that the Silicon Valley culture and we as technologists more broadly can breed monoculture in our approach to entrepreneurship, problem solving, market analysis and technology solutions. I remember once sitting on a panel with Esther Dyson who is one of the most travelled and broad-experienced technologist I know.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

In the era of Skype, web conferencing tools and collaboration software conventional wisdom says that distributed startup teams can be just as effective as those that are in person. Or more precisely the people espousing the benefits of distributed startups teams are often distributed and therefore self rationalizing it.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

And while many of the people bringing you the great applications and infrastructure you now rely on are benevolent, there is of course an inbuilt incentive for these companies to use their scale advantages to continue to dominate the markets they’re in, making it harder for upstarts to compete. It’s Hobbesian economics 101.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2016

There was a grave consequence to nations who were slower to industrialize because the scale advantages wiped out entire local economies in foreign lands including Germany and France and in parts of the Middle East and Asia. Let’s all just focus on our home markets like the US”? Distribution of wealth benefits all.

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