Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m in Seattle this week. Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. As I gear up to give a keynote at the annual Seattle 2.0 awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Over the past decade we’ve had high-profile exits at many companies that pioneered monetization techniques now used across the web including Commission Junction, Value Click, ShopZilla, Price Grabber, LowerMyBills and a newer breed including Invoca, Burstly, Shift, Rubicon Project, Gravity, Convertro, Retention Science and so forth.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

John Jantsch (00:00): This episode or the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by the Nudge Podcast, hosted by Phil Agnew and brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network. It's in Denver, a Chicago, a Seattle, Phoenix, and Dallas. Mike Evans (04:02): I did do that. I literally did that. powered by.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Look beyond California and you have group purchasing (GroupOn in Chicago, LivingSocial in Washington DC), private sales (Gilt Groupe in NY, HauteLook in LA), artisan marketplaces (Etsy in NY), eCommerce (Amazon in Seattle) and on and on. Recruiting & retention will be different outside the Valley. eBay and others.

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adamac.blogspot.com

MARCH 9, 2010

A Large Number of Ex-Employees With social networks like LinkedIn, its easy to get a rough idea of how many people work at a given company. Maybe there were layoffs, which isnt a great sign, but it probably indicates a serious retention (i.e. If youre the first technical employee at a startup, youre either a founder or youre a sucker.

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A Crowded Space

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Let’s rewind to 2013 and talk about why we invested and how we saw the early network effects of the business. And they had refined the formula to get lots of items to start selling in their home market of Seattle. DAU/MAU rates and retention rate benchmarks are well known in the mobile industry. years ago.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Professional networks are the starting point (and growth engine). Client retention hinges on relationships—and the people who maintain them. For many, that transition was possible not just because of quality work but because of a network built over a career. Spoiler alert: It all comes down to people.

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