K9 Ventures

APRIL 27, 2011

As a two person team Arlo and AJ built out the whole site and the back-end technology — and built it to scale — at one point they did a A/B test on Zappos and were easily able to handle all the traffic coming to the Zappos test site while being able to show results from the enormous Zappos inventory. And crank it out they did.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

As the former co-founder and CEO of two technology companies, Caroline has experienced both start-up failures and successes, and has raised close to $1 million in investment capital. Make sure you’ve done the due diligence on all of these areas of your business. That’s really the purpose of the pitch.

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Technical Review Software Review Due Diligence Exit Strategy 60

Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

25 questions that DTC entrepreneurs should ask themselves before scaling customer acquisition So you run a direct-to-consumer (DTC) brand. Here are the ‘25 Important Questions That DTC Entrepreneurs Should Ask Themselves’: Will the unit economics work at 2X the CAC? What happens at 3X? These add up very quickly.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

Several “experts” in marketing and advertising, and IP lawyers, tried to talk me into changing it. Finally, when in doubt, ask your kids, which I did and that’s what they decided. We’d constantly be asked Can I rank for…? An interesting aside: revenue continued at old levels, even after slashing work hours by 60%).

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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. Those were the technology-powered innovations that enabled the new, much more desirable business model.

Product 60

Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 16, 2022

Questions I ask Stu Heinecke: [1:46] Why did you want to use the analogy of a weed and what was your thought process behind it? [3:14] Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! It could be, it could be a partner that you have. And my new partner in this is the NASDAQ entrepreneurial center. StuHeinecke.com.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

That's why the Corona Initiative is a Public Benefit Corporation--a for-profit company dedicated to the public good that aims to fund its research with its revenues. I'm general partner at MarsBio VC and Director of The Corona Initiative. He went to the same school I did, Georgia Tech, and studied electrical engineering.

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Technical Review Software Review Finance Technology 68

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I have the knowledge in tech to implement it. There’s a great quote that I love that goes “Ask not if you’re worthy of your goals, ask instead, are your goals worthy of your life?”. Ask [link] – you don’t need to be in the valley. Ask your existing users this question via a survey. Philosophical] I have the idea.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Questions I ask Debbie Howard: [1:31] How did you get to where you are now? [3:36] Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! John , so well, myself and my business partner Andrea. And we are not a tremendously innovative and technology savvy industry. More About Debbie Howard: SeniorLivingSMART.com.

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Differentiation Sales Cycle Audio Networking 71

infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

For instance, if a consultant proposes to help you with public relations, pay them a commission equivalent to the greater of a flat fee per story placed or a percentage of revenue generated from the PR coverage. The final straw came when I asked the latest 25-year old a simple ‘yes / no’ question related to stock options.

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Equity Silicon Valley Cofounder PR 40

news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Hacker News new | comments | ask | jobs | submit login Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. Sure, we kept bits of information private like our negotiations with future partners or plans for the next version, but it really didnt matter that much. Ran if for two years before we shut it down with almost no revenue achieved.

Stealth 41

Stealth Technical Review Startup Software Review 41

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Suffice to say that our partners, vendors, and most importantly regular mainstream customers all found the idea disturbing. This single decision wound up costing the company significant revenue and over the course of several months sent its customer growth into decline. peer review is NOT working.

Community 158

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

People keep asking me if I’ve “seen anything interesting.&# Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. This article originally ran on TechCrunch. I’m in Seattle this week.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

He taught me to ask questions in meetings rather than only talking and the benefits of not always trying to be the smartest guy in the room. On July 27th, 2001 Accenture IPO’s and many of the partners grew fabulously wealthy. Double-down on great people, process & IP. He always was.

Turkey 302

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Ask 10 people what account-based marketing (ABM) is and you’ll get 10 different answers. In this article, you’ll learn how to define your ABM strategy so you can target the right accounts and increase your revenue. Cloud-based data warehouse Snowflake had an ambitious goal to triple its revenue. What is account-based marketing?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

We were trying to optimize around a few criteria: price, size of round, number of syndicate partners and, of course, terms. We moved into the legal process and final due diligence in January and February of 2000. Just ask my dear friend Stuart Lander. We ended up agreeing a term sheet for $16.5 Yes, this was stupid.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

and we ultimately sold when we hit $14 million and had more than $30 million in backlog revenue. I learned about revenue recognition. I learned how to establish a technology center in India and how to manage disparate development teams (and this has drive my thoughts also about what does NOT work.).

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

Technical Expenses A few of these apply only to companies that build software, but most apply across the board. at 12:35 am Partners/Corporate Boards should always buy life insurance for all key persons in the company (with the company as the beneficiary). at 3:43 pm I am a partner in four person consulting firm. at 1:08 pm [.]

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ConversionXL

APRIL 12, 2017

No, the first 2% is more valuable in terms of revenue. The entire funnel is all about asking and finding the answers to the same fundamental questions. Crappy or outdated technology. Ask people to phrase it: “I believe that. Create a revenue forecast before you even run the experiment. 10K / 1M = 1%. book a hotel).

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