Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

It was 1996, so within 6 months anyone working in the internet was a relative expert, and I’ve been working in consumer tech ever since. I didn’t know anything about the internet, but I knew that he was a very smart guy, so I called him and asked if I could come. We worked together through good times and bad.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

It was 1996, so within 6 months anyone working in the internet was a relative expert, and I’ve been working in consumer tech ever since. I didn’t know anything about the internet, but I knew that he was a very smart guy, so I called him and asked if I could come. We worked together through good times and bad.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

He founded SKYLIST in 1996 from his college dorm room at Carnegie Mellon, and created UnsubCentral in 2004. Subscribe to the Business channel. Share on Tumblr email share Share on Tumblr email share. You can follow Joshua on Twitter @joshuabaer. Angel investors. 14 followers. Angellist. 1 follower. For more Business coverage.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2016

According to a 1996 HBR article , interactive marketing included “the ability to address an individual and the ability to gather and remember the response of that individual.”. Here are some more examples in more traditional marketing channels… Interactive print ads. Image Source. Interactive Content Marketing and Lead Gen.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2012

JoAnn and I entered real estate in 1996 when interest rates were almost 9 percent. HOW-TO HINT: If you get a negative reaction when you speak your commitment, channel David Letterman. I should know. My wife and I built our thriving business — Those Callaways — in a tough industry that’s had more than its share of challenges.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Meet the “Everywhere Girl” Back in 1996, Jennifer Anderson posed for a stock photo shoot shortly after graduating college. Here’s the problem: Every other poor schmuck in every other vertical has used the exact…same…photograph.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

With that implicit assumption, startups hire a VP of Sales with a great rolodex and call on established mainstream companies while marketing creates a brand and buzz to create demand and drive it into the sales channel (web, direct salesforce, etc.) In 1996 no potential customer had even heard of a Personal Digital Assistant.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. In the tactics section, list your sales channels and describe how you will be selling your products. This way, you can see which marketing channel gives you the most value.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

In 1996 RIM was still in the hardware business selling packet-switched wireless radio modems to OEMs. TiVo had plenty of other battles to fight: competition, issues with channel partners, patent battles, as well as the movie studios, cable companies, broadcast networks and advertisers who all wanted TiVo dead.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 12, 2025

Chapters: [00:09] Introducing Bruce Clay [00:53] SEO in 1996 [04:47] The Growing Importance of SEO [11:19] How to Create Quality Content for SEO [14:50] Is Zero-Click the End of SEO? [18:59] He's been a world renowned expert in the field of SEO since 1996. A lot of people couldn't spell SEO in 1996, probably, right?

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 6, 2017

It also isn’t any less true than it was Bill Gates coined the phrase back in 1996. If there is incongruity between your branding and the visuals you use on your website, social channels, and promotional materials, your entire content marketing strategy could fall flat before you ever get it off the ground.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 27, 2014

I’ve known Cindy and her husband Terry Gold since 1996, shortly after I moved to Boulder. Much of the book is through the eyes of Sylvie, who is expect is channeling some of Cindy’s wit, style, and personality, which is sharp and deliciously direct. My friend Cindy Gold wrote Sailing an Alien Sea about a year ago.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2021

If you’ve ever worked with me in any deal capacity, I’m channeling Len. From 1996 to 2001, I spent a lot of time with Len in New York, where Interliant was headquartered. I learned how to be a board member from Len. I learned how to complete a negotiation, walk away from the table, be empathetic, and be available.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2018

The Millennial generation – which generally refers to individuals born between 1980-1996 – continues to fascinate businesses. Insurance providers should also utilize social media and other channels to communicate with Millennials and make it clear that they care about members. by Sally Poblet, CEO of Wellthie.

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Brandanew

JUNE 3, 2016

Since 1996 when this statement was made by one of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, the three words have gone really, really viral. Broadcasting your content across all social media channels. Content Marketing ’s true worth was emphasized by Bill Gates when he said, “Content is king.” Paid advertisements of your blog.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 12, 2009

  Through various forms I have been involved from an investment perspective in wireless-related companies since 1996 when I made an investment in a company called AirMedia.    More importantly, will there be any grand slam venture capital opportunities in wireless?    I learned a lot from that investment. 

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 25, 2011

Not spending 15% of your Marketing budget, every month, on experimenting with new techniques / channels / ideas. Skipping creation of a cross-channel strategy [via Shilpa Gupta] "TV drives Search. Your website was created in 1996, updated slightly in 2001, and left to rot ever since. We hate change. Super lame!

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ConversionXL

MAY 31, 2017

Lead capture forms made sense in an era when phone and email were the dominant communication channels. True, some companies experimented with social media as a sales channel as well. The first wave of messaging software arrived with ICQ (launched in 1996), followed by AIM (1997), Yahoo! It’s been around since the mid-1990s.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

To illustrate this and the lack of improvement in forms, take a look at IBM’s contact form in 1996 and their form in 2016. When you double the conversion rate of your form, you double the performance of every single marketing channel and campaign driving traffic to that form in one fell swoop. Conclusion.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2011

When I first moved to California from New York in 1996 I saw the success of juice bars. Multi-Channel Marketing & Perseverance. You also need to use multiple channels (e.g., And I was sitting at my kitchen table working on my juice company. Ok.not to go off on too big a tangent, but I guess I should explain my juice venture.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 12, 2009

  Through various forms I have been involved from an investment perspective in wireless-related companies since 1996 when I made an investment in a company called AirMedia.    More importantly, will there be any grand slam venture capital opportunities in wireless?    I learned a lot from that investment. 

Mobile 60

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Up and Running

MAY 31, 2016

He started from his dorm room at the University of Oregon in 1996; he sold his company, Rumblefish.com, for $27 million in 2015. It could be as simple as what kind of work you sell, to whom, through what channels. One of my personal favorite artist-with-a-plan stories is the story of Paul Anthony and Rumblefish.

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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

i. Pre bubble period 1991-1996 totals $28 billion. ii. Bubble period 1996-2000 totals $243.6 This enabled consolidation among the brokerage houses and banks, which led to the loss of multiple distribution channels for securities and reduced the ability for small players to survive. cents or 6.25

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

I’m a partner at TCV, which we founded in 1996. And we’ll go out and ensure we’re getting our stuff out through the channels.” Here is the full YouTube — Please enjoy this episode: How to Scale Unicorns. And before we get started, could you share a little about TCV and what got you into venture investing?

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

If PPC has been around since 1996 , why doesn’t it happen more often? When PPC first took off, it was praised as an affordable way for small businesses and scrappy marketers to avoid big advertising budgets via traditional channels. If PPC has been around since 1996, why doesn’t it happen more often? CPC Is Rising.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Without those open and yet expert-filled channels, it might have taken me many years more to correct my naivety and fill out my understanding of core topics.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 30, 2023

That wasn't my intention in 1996. Set up a banter channel in, or a shout out channel or both. We have both in your, whether it's Slack or Microsoft Teams, whatever your company uses for internal chats, we have a shout out channel. John Jantsch (16:57): We, we actually, I was gonna say we call our shout out channel tacos.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

For those too young to remember perhaps the best known of this era came in 1996 and was known as Dancing Baby , a strange, animated gif of — you guessed it. Again he looked to the media industry history and pointed out that before Ted Turner founded CNN he had an entertainment channel. Back then there were “email forwards.”

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