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543 Articles match "Companies","Custom"
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
This weekend a brave soul named Roxanne (a wonderful customer satisfaction rep) went and got an even better looking tornado than mine on the inside of her wrist. This will undoubtedly spur a number of other people to go out there and brand themselves with the company they are so passionate about. like to think this says a lot about the type of company we have built. In my previous post I talked about getting the mobileStorm tornado tattoo. I
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
Large companies can be strange sometimes. As As startup entrepreneurs we all want to work with them because having their name as reference clients makes it so much easier for marketing, PR, selling to other customers, fund raising and even recruiting. Plus, I’ve observed the following scenario in both of my companies and in countless others I’ve advised or invested in:
- This is part of my ongoing series on Startup Advice
Plus, we’re all allured by the false sense that our contract with BigCo is going to “make us” because once they start
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
The company said the emergency/mass notification market grew by 29 percent in 2009, according to numbers from Gartner. Everbridge serves such customers as Salesforce.com, Marathon Oil Corporation, the State of Connecticut, the American Red Cross, and Virginia Tech. READ MORE>>
...Tags: Los Angeles-based Everbridge , a provider of incident notification systems, said Thursday that the firm had record growth in 2009. The privately held firm did not disclose actual financials, or break out 2009's growth numbers, however, it said it had an average annual growth rate of
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Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Imagine if you spent all that time building your business–plus risked your money–and customers hated what you built. In this program Eric Ries teaches you the lean startup ideas that saved his business when customers hated his product.
8221; She’s, customizing the avatar, deciding how’s she’s going to look, she gets into that. If you’re reading Mixergy, I know you routinely work hours that most people don’t know exist. Want to learn how to protect yourself from that devastation?
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Monday, August 24, 2009
The first company he founded failed, but now Darrin Clement is running a multi-million dollar mapping business that he founded and bootstrapped. How did he go from having to close down his previous company to winning so many customers at this one?
His first big leap into entrepreneurship was launching Optiwave, a fiber optic consulting company. The simple answer is he learned to sell. This program will show you how he did that and what YOU can learn from his experience.
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Friday, July 31, 2009
Bob is a Director and long-time member of the Pasadena Angels, has been investing in early stage companies for 5 years, and has been held numerous “C” level positions at private and publicly traded companies. To set the stage, as an early stage investor, I look to invest in a “perfect storm” company. So for an example lets assume a $500k investment in a company with Following on the heals of last week’s post from Andrea Belz, we have another guest blogger, Bob Aholt. Bob also teaches graduate level finance courses at Antioch University.
By Bob Aholt
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
know that, if you absorb the lessons from his experience, you'll avoid making similar mistakes as you build your company.
The company underestimated how hard it is to get customers
Andrew's note: they ended up getting customers largely through ads in search engines and search engine optimization.]
Somehow, as Luke Burgis raced to build his business, he ended up selling fitness bars, cereal, pet supplements and "sexual enhancement" products. At the same time, he found himself running an online message board and a YouTube-like video site.
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Sunday, November 1, 2009
The world has changed much since I started my first company in 1999. As organizations we have become more open and I believe this is great for businesses and their customers. We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features. Turn Your Organization Inside Out
This is part of my ongoing posts on Startup Advice .
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Lee LeFever had a talent for explaining tough concepts, so he built a company that makes and sells explainer videos. Common Craft, the business he founded and runs with his wife, has been used by companies like Google and Twitter to help potential customers understand their new products.
I invited him to Mixergy because I'm fascinated by how companies make money by selling content in a world where...
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Jeff Fluhr and his friend from school got together and created a company called StubHub which they built up and sold to eBay. But, you know, I think it wasn't until after my first real company StubHub that people, I think, thought of me in that light.
So I contacted the owner of the company and proposed to him that I be a distribution outlet for their product in retail channels outside of the Massachusetts area and began to help that company get In 2000, people had all kinds of assumptions about buying and selling tickets to events. They assumed it was illegal or
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009
As noted in Pour and Stir Part I , the key to the successful execution of this strategy is managing the following equation:
The cost to acquire a customer < lifetime value of a customer
This entry focuses on how you can minimize your cost per customer acquired by systematically establishing the infrastructure necessary to track the results obtained from a variety of online and offline marketing vehicles.
“I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.” John Wanamaker
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
As part of doing that, I've had the opportunity to interact with a wide variety of different chief technical officers from different kinds of companies over those years. This is a private group of CTOs who are responsible for software development within their companies. They are generally the senior most person responsible for custom software development, database design, database administration, web development, I've helped organize the Los Angeles CTO Forum for almost 10 years. Yes, there are some events around particular technologies.
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
8221; After your launch, you can improve the business by listening to your customers.
Selling the company was incredibly stressful. The company went from spending $10,000 - $12,000 in the 9-12 months before it was funded, to spending $4 million over the following 6-8 months, because his investors wanted a fast and large return on their investment.
I asked Brian Johnson to teach what he learned from launching 3 startups because he has both the experience of an entrepreneur and the introspection of a philosopher.
Brian is the founder of eteamz (a web site for youth
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