A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

I see the name of Noel’s company. Why don’t you give Jason the name of your company or your URL? We’re an integrate from that company but we had a lot of regret in hindsight when it came with the name that we picked. But we managed to grow a few customers, so that’s good, in spite of the name.

Widget 204

Widget Cofounder Technical Review Software Review 204

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Top management was trying to coordinate all of the operating details (sales, manufacturing, distribution and marketing,) across all the divisions and the company almost went bankrupt that year when poor planning led to excess inventory (with unsold cars piling up at dealers and the company running out of cash.) What happened to him?

Silicon Valley 170

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

Sales & Marketing. --> Bloggers. --> Resources. Social media audiences have effectively become another universe of prospects to tap, which means measurement and tracking is essential to yielding from these visitors both direct and indirect revenue. First Name. Company Name. * Advertising/Sales. B2B: Business Media.

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Social Media Rhode Island Media South Dakota 40

Hearpreneur

JUNE 19, 2016

I tried a few different MLMs – while successful, I didn’t have a knack for sales. I eventually recruited my wife Evelyn to quit her full-time job and join me at Sunny Days and since then we now serve 200 clients, maintain nearly 250 employees and generate about $5 million in annual revenue in just five years.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Software Review Michigan Chicago 48

Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

conversion rate (average as reported by shop.org) and you are dutifully reporting our revenue of $1 million as a result. While you might be doing great in terms of direct revenue impact of your website, pause and consider what in God's name is happening to that other 98.3% "unconverted" traffic on your site?

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Analytics Conversion Campaign Redemption 116

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

NAME Comcast. NAME Verizon Communications. NAME Yahoo. NAME Shikhar Ghosh. NAME Toby Stuart. NAME Daniel Dreymann. NAME Charles Holloway. NAME David Cowan. Businesses For Sale |. Domain Name/Basic Site. COMPANY AOL COMPANY|AOL. SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. COMPANY CMCSA COMPANY|CMCSA.

Venture Capital 107

Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

For now, Sunil answers the question of why leave a well paying corporate job to become an online entrepreneur… My name is Sunil and the title of this blog post refers to me. I attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, a top ten business program year-in year-out and love to pretend to brag about it.

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Internet Technical Review Stock Due Diligence 80

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. The response was inevitably “great pipeline.” (Great pipeline means no real sales.). We now understand that’s wrong.

Restful 235

Restful Silicon Valley Puerto Rico San Jose 235

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

And these reports are so often clustered at the top with 152 variations of the brand names. If you are looking for short-term revenue or quick wins, you are better off skipping it (do something boring, but profitable, like Email or Affiliate marketing). Christmas was even better for Mobile (traffic, sales, store visits, everything).

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