Up and Running

JUNE 21, 2021

In 1998, a few years after launching, the company got a $200,000 SBA-guaranteed loan. This led to iRobot’s sale of more than 4,000 PacBot robots that perform perilous missions (like bomb disposal) in support of soldiers and first responders in combat. TRISTAR — Engineering its own success.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 9, 2011

Shechtman, who was born in Tel Aviv in 1941, had previously been awarded the Israel Prize in Physics in 1998 and the Wolf Prize in Physics a year later. He discovered the Icosahedral Phase of crystals aluminum transition metal alloys in 1982. Shechtman is the tenth Israeli to win the Nobel Prize.

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Up and Running

APRIL 9, 2019

I believe in it because the SWOT phase was vital to my planning process as I grew Palo Alto Software from zero to over $5 million in annual sales. It was also in a SWOT session that we realized we needed to make our product downloadable on the web (back in 1998, when we were among the first).

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 7, 2013

These firms have had a significant impact on growth over the last 20 years through the bubbles and crashes they create – e.g. the Long-Term Capital Management crash of 1998, the Dot-Com crash of 2000, and the housing meltdown of 2008.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2014

I’m not sure where that rule comes from, but by that measure, we should see the first self driving cars on sale in 2017. One rule of thumb I learned upon entering the technology industry was that it takes seven years, on average, for new technology to go from laboratory proofs to sellable product.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The irony is that in a retrospective paper ten years later (1998), [ 2 ] the authors backed off from their claims. In 1998 Goto.com , a small startup (later Overture, now part of Yahoo ! ), created the pay per click search engine and advertising system and demo’d it at the TED conference. The only problem is that it’s simply not true.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Romer analyzed every fourth down that occurred in every quarter of every NFL game from 1998 to 2000. We found this out through usability testing and then added the information to the sales copy and the FAQ. We changed the USP, sales copy, and design for the website to reflect this focus on a specific category.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Prabhdeep Singh: We were founded in 1998 to serve top professionals — then it was investors — who weren’t really learning from the dry, one-dimensional, one-size-fits-all industry reports and conferences available to them. Can you give a brief overview: when you were founded, investors, current status? .

New York 114

New York Technical Review Networking Advisory Board 114

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 9, 2006

Paris, November 1998. sales and marketing. (10). Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan. Measuring sales and marketing effectiveness of Saa. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

For example, I quickly learned that when I twittered about the event, more often than not I would make a sale. I’ve often wanted to wire up a bell to sales data, so that when we make a sale, we literally hear the cash register ring. In May of 1998, India detonated several nuclear weapons at a test site near New Delhi.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The woman in charge of sales was so tenacious that I used to feelsorry for potential customers on the phone with her. Stephen Hawkings editor told him that every equationhe included in his book would cut sales in half. A 10% improvement in ease of use doesnt just increase your sales 10%. Its more likely to double your sales.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

Ratiopharm, a privately-owned subsidiary of German holding company VEM, was founded in 1973 and has annual sales of about $8.6 and was founded in 1998. Teva, Israel’s largest company, has a market value of about $56 billion. ISRAELI CABINET APPROVES 2-YEAR MODEL FOR BUDGET 2011-2012. Net-Aye is a subsidiary of Bar-Tec Ltd.

Israel 68

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

But nine months after the first call was made in 1998, Iridium was in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. They made other assumptions about the type of sales channel, partnerships and revenue model they would need. Seven years after it was founded their satellites and ground stations were in place. It was a technical tour de force.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

By 1992 Research in Motion (RIM) had been in business for eight years, had 16 employees, sales of about $500,000 a year, and three or four business lines. In 1998 RIM quickly followed this up with a next generation product with an 8-line display, ran on AA batteries and would last 500 hours. RIM sales were $15 billion in 2010.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

So the question is, does emotion play a role in making more sales online? Before we look how emotion affects sales, we have to ask if emotion plays a role further up the marketing funnel – specifically for driving awareness and getting more reach. Emotional Design Influences Sales. 1998) – 120,000+ customers.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

We really were doing the i-thing before Apple came out with its first iMac in 1998. So the departments either didn’t have the capacity to pay or it would be an endless sales-cycle, where we would spend lots of time on the sales, but it still wouldn’t close. Our products were iClass, then iMeet, iServe and iShow.).

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 2, 2011

Milner has built a successful business with sales over a million annually doing what she loves – offering busy families a helping hand by providing a fun and safe place to bring their children. The KidsPark concept was further validated in 1998 when the company attracted angel funding, with a three member board to help direct growth.

Silicon Valley 164

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

The biggest deal I’ve ever done was a sale of a $100,000 website. I managed to visit Seattle as part of the Australian national Magic The Gathering team in 1998, so that was the highlight of my career as a professional Magic player. There’s a few sites you can go to and monitor that have a constant stream of websites for sale.

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Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2015

While Microsoft introduced MSN Search in 1998, the site purely used an existing search engine, Inktomi, to gather results. Unfortunately, a series of bad judgments followed, including firing the company’s long-time ad agency, laying off 10% of its corporate staff and thousands of middle managers, and ridding the stores of sales and discounts.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Last weekend I caught Mashable announcing that Ebook Sales Surpass Hardcover in the U.S. And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. I bought the Diamond Rio mp3 player in 1998. I have the purchase history to prove it.

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Tim Keane

MAY 27, 2010

.   We were fortunate enough to have customers like Boston Store, Carson’s, Penney’s, Sears, GNC – and they loved our exceptional customer service and ability to deliver a better value to their customers – and more sales and customer satisfaction to them.   We had a hardworking team of great people to pull it off.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

” Here’s the summary of his track record (excerpted from the Fast Company article): Forefront — IPO’ed in 1995 by CBT — CBT stock fell 85% in 1998 and prompted class-action lawsuits. Except I disagree with that definition of “success.” Support.com — On 2.5m

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 22, 2014

Builder - as revenues start to grow the CEO has to build a team and processes so sales can be repeated and the business can grow. Entrepreneur - then the CEO must be great at marshalling resources, raising money, staying resilient, and getting stuff done at pace. The first is that you’re doing something wrong all the time.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

I just read the following story about how their low price ethos played out when they entered the DVD market in 1998. We had planned to match their 30% discount, and now we were being out-priced by the market leader on our first day of operation, and just before the heart of the holiday sales season to boot (it was November, 1998).

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Hearpreneur

MAY 29, 2016

I started my company to increase the awareness about marketing within the small business community (what it is, what it is not, how to know you’re doing it right, etc) as I come across many that confuse marketing with PR or sales and are frustrated when their marketing programs don’t create the sales boost they expect.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 30, 2018

The term ‘pre-chasm’ is a nod to Geoffrey Moore’s 1998 classic Crossing the Chasm and refers to companies that may have sold to early adopters, but haven’t yet found a way to sell to the mainstream. Getting sales going in those early years is terrifically challenging and requires great product and great sales.

Software 106

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

A few of the detailed case studies include: Tech legend Bill Gross building an MVP in 1999 to test demand for online car sales, which grew into CarsDirect.com. KISSmetrics building and empowering cross-functional teams to attack problems in their sales funnels via hypothesis testing. Lean Startup has gone mainstream.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Discover the secrets and strategies of how your business can achieve the frictionless sale. Think of it as a mantra in 1998, in a second shareholder letter, or 1999 Yeah. (20:43): So I didn't put a lot of stock into that. Then I started researching Bezos and Amazon. I'm looking at it differently now. Don't look at it as a mission.

Seattle 90

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Life Beyond Code

APRIL 22, 2011

This was 1998. I still remember the time when I was asked to lead a project on Sales Force Automation in Paris. Until then I had never managed a sales force automation project. Every time your Boss takes such a chance at you, you owe it to them and yourself to stretch and grow AND most importantly deliver. The problem?

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2016

The value of car sales through their retargeting was 98% higher than the offline average. Being the UK’s largest online watch dealer, Watchfinder had the same goals as any other good eCommerce store: To increase sales. But even without a newborn, Bebê Store knew they needed some additional help when it came to driving more sales.

Campaign 48

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

Gran’t is an international sales master, a NY Times Bestseller, speaker and self made multi millionaire. All of this personal and professional development combined with a deep desire to help others let me to create a business where I draw upon marketing, PR and sales principles to help people find, give and keep love.

Entrepreneur 48

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Lee put his hypothesis to test in 1998 via Peanut Butter & Co , a small retail shop which has turned into a multiplatform success. sandwich shop in 1998, and the menu consisted entirely of peanut butter sandwiches, snacks, and desserts. Q: The business started in 1998. One which still goes best with a glass of milk.

Social Media 88

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2019

I’ve often made the mistake of hanging onto responsibilities far longer than necessary; everything from accounting, to email management, to sales management. I suggest asking yourself what duties you can pass on to others because those activities are not a productive use of time and energy for you or for the company.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Start by defining your vision statement and company mission, which will help inform other areas of your business like marketing or sales. Hone your elevator pitch, not your sales pitch. An elevator pitch, unlike a sales pitch, is the one you’ll trot out when you look to convert conversations into clientele.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

Whilst the average tech entrepreneur may lack some of the more business relationship, networking, and sales/marketing skills – they still need to have an entrepreneurial mindset, understand financial models, market factors, and how the business ultimately makes money. Music Gear for Sale/Trade. Thoughts on. Expository (1).

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 27, 2016

Total number of new customers: Our team sets definite goals for our sales and customer service departments, placing them high enough so our employees work diligently. Sean Rudner is the president and CEO of StockPKG and is directly involved in the general management, sales and financial departments.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Economists and business experts have long been predicting the demise of the brick-and-mortar store, as online businesses have begun to dominate sales in many areas of retail. In business for more than 90 years, the family-owned supermarket chain must be doing something right, as it has over $6 billion in sales and a cult-like following.

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