Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

Lost some real n%^$as I knew from a long time ago. The overwhelming favorites to dominate the race to become the Information Super Highway were competing proprietary technologies from industry powerhouses such as Oracle and Microsoft, which captured the imagination of the business press. Lil Wayne, Swag Surfin.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

I suggested the best place to start the conversation is with the 21 st century definition of a startup: A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. They’ve learned the best distribution channel to get the product from their company to the customer. That’s now changed.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Harlem Shake is a YouTube phenomenon that in just 2 weeks has gone from nothing to on air on both Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert and collectively the Harlem Shake has been viewed around 200 million times. Media in an age of: low-cost capture from mobile devices. Media in an age of: low-cost capture from mobile devices.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 31, 2017

So, use plugins that will help you stay in touch with the people who want to hear from you. Use insights about visitor page views, geographic location, search history, demographic information, and referrals to analyze and strategize. WordPress Leads allows you to access all of your customer information from one dashboard.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Here’s an example of on-site personalization from Bunting. Visitor 1 is a woman from the USA, who is browsing in June or July… Visitor 2 is a man from the UK who has browsed Nixon watches before, but never purchased. These recommendations could be based on actors, directors, genre, rating from people like me, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. total funding $1.7 My-Wardrobe.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

For example, Apple needed music from their record label partners to make the original iPod and iTunes experience complete. The concept of Partners , took some explanation as some teams confused partners with the Distribution Channel.). Within the week they were #6 in Google search results for “Stanford Admission Books.”.

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Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Continuing my medical analogy from Part I, the documents are like powerful prescription medications and your lawyer plays the role of the physician. Likewise, founders can benefit from understanding basic characteristics of the overall legal structure, formation and governance documents, rights and responsibilities of team members, etc.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 5, 2018

The company also changed its official name from Wal-Mart Stores to Walmart last December in order to highlight its growing omnichannel focus. Walmart’s most recent acquisition of Parcel , though small financially, indicated interest in more quickly delivering products from stores to homes. WALMART’S GOALS.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 12, 2012

How and Why to Create Smarter Content This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. Now that pretty much everyone gets that content is a must, it’s time to send your content creation and distribution to school to get smarter and more sophisticated. law_keven via Flickr CC But, and you knew this was coming; it’s no longer enough. Now you can.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

When companies seeking their first round of serious funding are good enough to receive a term-sheet from an investor, the first issue that always arises is valuation. Let’s look at how the investor arrives at a value from a philosophical point of view.   And if they are built from the top down, they’re pretty much useless. [3]

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

I’ve had the opportunity to work with many impressive teams and product managers from a broad range of leading tech companies, and this has helped me to get a better sense of the what is essential to the role, and to success. There are multiple reasons for this but it’s simply too important to continue. So the team got to work.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Weve got a little funding from VCs. You show this by giving completely generic arguments to one line sentences from his post. From "Think and Grow Rich". Anyone that thinks they got everything figured out from day one deserves to be called a retard. But losing to competition is also a likely outcome. Isnt it? >>

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Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

For an emerging brand that most people haven’t heard of, you can build trust with potential customers with high search ranking and having relatable content available. Products from hip new DTC brands can be great gifts. Have you thought about how potential IP theft would impact your business? These add up very quickly.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

There is a lot any business — B2C, B2B, A2Z — can learn from Songza. They use geo/ip to work out where I am. Of course there is still the search box on top of the page. Why not, at least, show me "Current Deals from San Jose" (my closest airport)? The suggestions engine they have. – Music!

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

More equal access to distribution channels: The web gives software start-ups the ability to efficiently reach consumers and business customers through search, social, and mobile channels. First, buyers trust established companies more than unproven upstarts (think of the old saying that no one would lose their job for buying from IBM).

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Some of them have legs and will be with us for a long time, others are like vapor – these may be in vogue at this moment in time, but a trend today is a mere memory to business owners a year from now. The new rulers would permit startups to raise as much as $1 million from don rows online. Outsourcing social media. It’s about time!

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 18, 2011

AB on Air Ltd - ABonAir’s solutions enable the transmission of video content – over the air – directly from a camera to a news truck, without the need for cable deployment. Gilat Satcom - Gilat Satcom Broadcast Service offers broadcasters a fully managed TV channel distribution over C or KU band satellites at a very attractive price.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Israel and China just signed an aviation agreement that increases the number of weekly flights from Tel Aviv to Beijing from three to fourteen. My suppliers are there, the market is there, and my investors are there,” he told me, having previously founded and managed an innovative search company in Palo Alto. billion in 2030.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

I make my career from evangelising the benefits of technology and I wrote my first lines of code on a 16k RAM-only computer, way before any of this was trendy. This data hasn’t just been taken from us without permission, it’s actually being used against us. I’m a self confessed lover of technology and how empowering it can be.

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www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Here’s how the pitch sounds from the engineer’s perspective: ‘For ten whole percent of equity, you will slave away to build a prototype out of my shitty idea, not have any say in the decision-making process…and oh yeah, you could be fired at any point.’ It builds trust and earns buy-in from the people you hire.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Search for: Videos. I built a multi-million dollar company (and sold it) from New Brunswick Canada. If you’re an Entrepreneur, you can do it from any place in the world. I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Hey Dan, read your blog and always have good takeaways from it.

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Mike Michalowicz

JULY 25, 2016

This week we have a great episode with Frank and Ralph, where we discuss how they have implemented Profit First from day one of starting their business! Too add, by implementing Profit First, within the first two weeks of starting the business, the company took their first distribution check! Also Available On. Show Summary.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

A bout 50,000 visitors from 200 countries are expected to attend the 2010 GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, starting tomorrow February 15th. VC Cafe's own little 'cloud' for MWC 2010, taken from the Israeli IMA brochure. Ceragon’s solutions are deployed by more than 150 service providers and in hundreds of.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Allot is a leading provider of intelligent IP service optimization and revenuegeneration solutions based on Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology, Allot Service Gateway solutions for mobile broadband are compliant with 3G.4G/LTE Our solutions provide peace of mind, improve quality of life and save costs to users and service providers.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Such is the power of being able to proactively identify which of your competitor's strategies are working well, where their current customers come from, and what specific tactics you should experiment with to create and advantage for yourself. Search/Keyword Competitive Performance. Tools used in this post.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2019

Interesting insights in attribution, impressions, visits, conversion rate and prediction of sales from @therustybear at #elite2019 pic.twitter.com/buHsV04b0Y — Karl Gilis (@AGConsult) June 13, 2019. Guidelines/best practices can sometimes distract from the sensitivity of experience. “It We sell success. It is not enough to know.”

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Whether you’re wondering what site search you should use or what is the best email marketing tool, knowledge is power. Â Search for apps tools. Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). VC & Startup Resources.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Yet few products these days can succeed without their online community, and the insight you can gain from interacting with that community is unparalleled, despite the pain. Communities care about lots of things, like how good your product is, how much information you give them, how you defend them from trolls, right?

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