Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 27, 2012

But it’s kind of hard to say “don’t plant near the big trees” when you just completed a big sale to Microsoft building an app that they should have created and dominated. Not just in Silicon Valley but in LA, NY, Seattle and other major tech markets. Where I Might Expand the Argument. “ And my fear?

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Apple’s sales increase of close to $234 billion reiterates its commitment to quickly release superior devices to the consumer. It aims to one day expand into a media company; this objective appears more probable as GoPro’s sales continue to increase at a steady rate. Netflix: An Ever-Growing Video Streaming Presence.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2015

b) Increasing average sales prices by upselling (“Would you like fries with that?”), cross-selling (offering related items after purchases are made), and sales after the sales (special offers immediately after the sale). This may involve conducting A/B testing to see which works better. e) Encouraging referrals.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Software Review South Carolina Startup 100

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2020

Most Startups Are Poorly Managed The reality is, most 20-somethings that start businesses lack the operational, managerial, sales and financial expertise to scale anything. If you do, tread lightly and—like any good investor—make the targeting of startups less than 10% of your overall marketing and sales portfolio.

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Sweat Equity Non-Compete Startup Azure 78

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2022

After having to reduce and rethink our strategy during COVID, we observed that our community and sales have skyrocketed. When open houses in Seattle Real Estate shut down at the beginning of the pandemic my Photography business knew that Virtual Tours were going to be very important. Photo Credit: Gavin Johnson.

Entrepreneur 114

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The tool is designed to make it easier for both your sales and marketing teams to work effectively and drive even more conversions. A spreadsheet also doesn’t integrate with your other marketing and sales tools or provide reports and analytics in the same way that a CRM tool can. Manage Your Sales Pipeline.

Seattle 65

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David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Techstars funded the company via our Techstars Seattle Accelerator in 2011. Outreach is a sales engagement platform that was funded by the Techstars Seattle Accelerator in 2011. Techstars funded Remitly, an online remittance company as part of our Techstars Seattle Accelerator in 2011. 6: Outreach (2011).

San Antonio 171

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Next year I’m going to spend time in Seattle and Boulder in addition. Looong Appendix (only for those interested in reading another story about losing a sale & key lessons): A personal story of losing a sale that haunted me for years. I later learned one of my biggest lesson in sales.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Next year I’m going to spend time in Seattle and Boulder in addition. Looong Appendix (only for those interested in reading another story about losing a sale & key lessons): A personal story of losing a sale that haunted me for years. I later learned one of my biggest lesson in sales.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Founded by Riley Goodman and Jake Director in 2009 when they were both high school seniors in a Seattle school, Strideline makes a range of crew socks that come with a design of city skylines. The original design featuring the Seattle city skyline sold out in three weeks when it was first launched.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The next most important set of metrics are sales by category; working capital (cash and other current assets, less current liabilities); EBITA; and gross margin. … “ Group Health Cooperative , a nonprofit health care system in Seattle with 10,000 employees, has also thrown out its budgeting process.

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Agile Management Forecast Silicon Valley 60

Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

It’s worth noting that LexSet’s team is distributed with additional team members in Seattle and myself in Los Angeles, giving us great range to take sales meetings all across the country. It’s also steps away from the Rlab , the mixed-reality accelerator we recently graduated from and maintain close ties with.

Technical Review 63

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

And early-stage VC investors have increasingly ventured beyond their backyards of SF, NYC, and Boston to more actively invest in (and in some cases relocate to) places like Miami, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2014

Over the next two years, I made 40 angel investments with the money I made from the sale of the company. I was living in Boulder at this point, but traveling continuously to Boston, New York, San Francisco, and Seattle where I was making most of my investments. Feld Technologies was acquired in November 1993.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

And early-stage VC investors have increasingly ventured beyond their backyards of SF, NYC, and Boston to more actively invest in (and in some cases relocate to) places like Miami, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities.

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Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 156

Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

After being installed in 2014 as Microsoft’s new CEO, Nadella has turned around the Seattle ocean liner on a new course after the Ballmer regime. Satya strikes again. Microsoft can seek to better integrate with its new prize and monetize different parts of the network over time (if it chooses to do so).

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

And early-stage VC investors have increasingly ventured beyond their backyards of SF, NYC, and Boston to more actively invest in (and in some cases relocate to) places like Miami, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

Then you can do a little bit of research and find out that very few companies ever achieve this valuation in a trade sale so you’re clearly gunning for an IPO. They did an inside round, spent a bunch of money and then went through a fire sale of the business less than 2 years later. The risk wouldn’t be appropriate.

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Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Silicon Valley Stock 336

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

A little company in Seattle called Microsoft. Mid-term, Limited Use of Force: The year is 2025, Taiwan has yet to budge on the sale of microchips. The industry was known as IBM and the Seven Dwarfs because IBM’s competitors were so far behind. If there was a superpower in any industry, it was IBM in IT. They were running out of cash.

Technical Review 322

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2019

While a great product and service can go a long way when making a sale, learning what drives a brand to do what they do creates a powerful connection. His employer, a Seattle coffee bean roaster, didn’t want to own coffee shops, but they did finance his idea: Starbucks. Clients (and consumers) are interested in the “why”.

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Seattle Japan Social Media Finance 147

techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

Seattle Meetup. Seattle, WA. with a $3 sale. Life360, A Family Networking App With More. Upcoming Events. Disrupt NY 2013. New York City. Disrupt NY Hackathon 2013. New York City. Austin Meetup. Austin, TX. San Diego Meetup. San Diego, CA. August Capital Party 2013. Menlo Park, CA. Crunch With Us. About & Staff.

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SEC Accredited Investor San Diego New York City 61

Version One Ventures

JULY 14, 2014

Can upstart ecosystems in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, or Seattle churn out tomorrow’s billion dollar tech companies? It’s relatively easy for a company to scale to 20-25 employees in Seattle, but when a start-up is ready to find its first VP of Sales or Marketing, it often needs to look beyond the local area.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

by Kim Burmester, Vice President of Sales & Marketing for ATLAS Workbase. Kim Burmester is Vice President of Sales & Marketing for ATLAS Workbase , a coworking and shared office space in Seattle.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 30, 2017

What if improving your customer service was all it took to generate more sales and grow your business? Staying focused on a marketing strategy built around customer service is a long-game move that can be easy to get distracted from when you are pressured to make more sales now. Would you do it? Of course you would.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 6, 2018

While it can often be daunting, there are a number of ways to ensure that the initial stages go as smoothly as possible, and before you even make your first sale, you need to have worked through a checklist of start-up essentials. You’ve decided to take the plunge and you’re going to start your own business.

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Social Media Seattle Startup Media 136

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

She brings more than 15 years of experience from the bankcard industry in direct sales, sales management and marketing to the company and also serves on its Board of Directors. They aren’t exclusive to Silicon Valley types. Advice For The Young At Heart business financing financing Kristen Gramigna private equity'

Silicon Valley 162

Silicon Valley Private Equity Seattle California 162

Austin Startup

AUGUST 29, 2017

That goes for any industry, location or product; from enterprise SaaS in my home town of Austin, to live music ticket sales in Virginia, to B2C services in Seattle. We’ll get to the data in a second, but first we need to get something straight: pricing is the biggest problem you’re currently ignoring. Let’s break this down.

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Differentiation Virginia .Net B2C 54

Feld Thoughts

APRIL 25, 2018

While I was in Seattle last week, I had a chance to stop by the Glowforge office and talk to the team during one of their biggest weeks since their historic 30-day crowdfunding campaign. Now, Glowforge reaches yet another milestone as their produce is moving out of pre-order and into commercial sale.

Customer 71

Customer Seattle Cofounder Campaign 71

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

At first this was limited to news sites that concentrated on a segment of a community, like West Seattle, but the concept is now being applied to advertising and promotion sites, blogging sites, and even legal services sites. Watch out for local sales force requirements. Maybe it’s selling local tours and taking a cut of the revenue.

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Finder Curation Seattle Community 210

Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 14, 2020

IT problems are fairly common – and are often easy to fix – but the longer your website or comms tools are down, the more sales you’re losing. It’s also a good idea to opt for local IT support, so say you are based in Seattle then you might want to source an IT company in Seattle to deal with your IT support needs.

Seattle 52

Seattle Social Media Global Email 52

YoungUpstarts

MAY 23, 2017

Be unusually open, and communicate actively, engaging the right technical, sales and management people when things go sideways. Rick Wong has over 35 years working in sales and marketing with Fortune 100 companies including Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft. Demonstrate Your Reliability. Anticipate challenges and be honest about problems.

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Balance Sheet Seattle Retention LLC 122

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Jeremy Liew, a respected VC from LightSpeed, obviously saw the change to ramp up sales. Seattle-based company specializing in mobile analytics. ShoeDazzle was already profitable and growing and had already taken capital from Polaris Ventures and Crosscut Ventures. It’s a hot but still relatively nascent market area.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 23, 2017

How to Use Facebook Ads to Drive Sustainable Traffic & Boost Sales written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Regardless of your business model, incorporating Facebook ads into your marketing funnel can be a dependable way to drive customers to your site and, ultimately, boost sales. While conversion (i.e.,

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 29, 2014

6Qube, a leading provider of internet marketing software and services, today announced that it has secured $100,000 in growth funding from Lighter Capital in Seattle. 6Qube will use the funding to fuel its sales and marketing efforts, and make key upgrades to its suite of technology products. Digital 6cube Funding'

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Security Seattle Finance Internet 78

Version One Ventures

JULY 6, 2016

Seattle-based sales tech company Outreach raised more $17.5 Outreach is used by sales professionals at companies like Adobe and Zillow, giving them a customizable workflow to communicate with clients and prospects. Portfolio companies in the news. million in Series B funding.

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San Francisco Syndicate Syndication Seattle 104

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

Look, if you work in sales, wanna learn how to sell, and frankly who doesn't check out the sales podcast, where host will Barron helps sales professionals learn how to buyers and win big business ineffective and ethical ways. You get me the sale. And that's probably how things were 20 years ago. Bob Glazer (03:48): Yeah.

Marketing 90

Marketing Affiliate Channel Software Review 90

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

For starters they has asked him to hire a CEO (Hamet was a first timer) and that person lived in Seattle even though NextMedium was based in LA. They did development in SF and had the ad sales team in NY. I believe investors had forced him to do this. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see the problems in this structure.

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