Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Founded in 2001, VisionSpring’s mission has always been to provide eyewear to the 2.5 Now, the company and its CEO Ella Gudwin are taking that a step further—offering their resources and capabilities to assist in the manufacturing and distribution of PPE for essential workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 effort.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. To begin with, I'm curious about the company name and how you came up with it. He then said he had no attachment to the name and wanted to set up our partnership for success, so we started looking for another name.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

“Value brands can also effectively reach out to pained-but-patient consumers who previously bought higher-end brands, a strategy Wal-Mart aggressively used with its ‘everyday low prices’ policy in the 2001 recession.” This means more people behind a screen, which means more opportunity across distribution channels. recession in 2009.”.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 14, 2016

A durable, trendsetting presence in the industry since 2001, the Atlanta-based firm sends over a billion emails per day and is the go-to choice for over 14 million organizations and individuals around the world. I use Mailchimp for the distribution of weekly newsletters, and for list growth via opt-ins for multiple types of campaigns.

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

million, indicating a somewhat normal distribution. This article was originally written in May 2001, revised extensively in January 2011 and again October 2011. The Ohio TechAngels adapted this valuation methodology in 2008 to meet their needs and named it the Bill Payne Method. million to a high of $3.4

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

My generation, dubbed Generation X after a popular novel of the same name , was typically characterized as being aimless and cynical, prematurely embittered by dead-end jobs, the generally awful state of the world, and an overall sense of cultural exhaustion. The world was also in the midst of the AIDS epidemic. They were selling hot sauce.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The goal was to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share – because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. Wide Adoption.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits.

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ConversionXL

MAY 8, 2017

This is useful if, like most startups, you rely heavily on word-of-mouth distribution for customer acquisition. Early on, Mark Zuckerberg described Facebook as , “Something where you can type someone’s name and find out a bunch of information about them.” He found that all of them had one thing in common: a lead feature.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

In 2007, he was named the Anne Armstrong Leadership Fellow, a position given annually to the most promising young foreign policy professional. On Describing His Current Work without Naming His Fund/Investments. Dan Kimerling: I love 2001: a Space Odyssey. Dan has a B.A. with Honors) in Political Science and an M.A.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

First Name. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Netscape and Opsware, which he helped found, went public with single-class share structures in 1995 and 2001, respectively. Confirm Email.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

We recently wrapped up our strategy offsite, an annual event that brings together the members of our very distributed team – 12 different cities in four different countries – to discuss what our aspirations and ambitions are for the coming year. Name (required). Here is the TL:DR version in case you are pressed for time.

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Diego Basch

JUNE 2, 2012

My name is Diego, so my odds of being interested in a Spanish-language portal were relatively high. In 1999 it was common practice to print the employee roster every week (including phone extensions) and distribute it to everyone. During the 2001 crash it lost all its value.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

I started my business namely to help others and to improve upon the aloof customer service being presented in the IT industry. That’s what spawned the idea that I can do better and namely how computer users deserved much better. In 2001, I came home to find my apartment on fire. Do you know the name of the cleaning person?

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

We downsized from 35 people in 2001 and are now a size that allows us to work directly with clients. Our name Reality2 stands for Reality2.0. We can extend our clients' reach tremendously, and for low cost, by using the internet and social media to distribute and link to the "assets" we create. Having fun again.

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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

iii. Post bubble period 2001-2009 totals $218.2 iii. 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. Amount of venture capital raised has exploded. 80% of IPO’s <$50MM. cents or 6.25

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

And content distribution. We forget, we think this is ancient history, it was 2001, I mean it wasn’t that long ago. John Jantsch: Yeah, and you’re right though, the model changes so much in terms of distribution, and assets, and hard costs, that it really allows for that kind of innovation, doesn’t it?

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

In October of 2001, Webster, McCarthy, and Graff decided to do just that and GoldStar was born. The biggest issue that the four founders ran into was finding a suitable name for their company. They came up with the company’s core vision: to help solve distribution for startups and eventually all digital goods.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. It became a huge kerfuffle with many VC partners writing to thank me for the post, which exposed those that gave their industry a bad name. And then I was mortified – Valleywag figured out which firm had treated me the worst and published their names. Folksonomy.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The New York Times, January 2001. Dean Kamen’s code name for the project was “Ginger.” Finally, in December 2001, came the big reveal: Ginger was the Segway. . For marketers, then, the goal is to distribute that secret, in full or part, for maximum impact: To create real value for Insiders. That was all most people knew.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The New York Times, January 2001. Dean Kamen’s code name for the project was “Ginger.” Finally, in December 2001, came the big reveal: Ginger was the Segway. . For marketers, then, the goal is to distribute that secret, in full or part, for maximum impact: To create real value for Insiders. That was all most people knew.

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aweissman.com

APRIL 17, 2016

Given that it was 2000-2001, SmarterChild launched on the then dominant (only?) SmarterChild was not designed to live as simply one of many names on your contact list delivering services. messaging platform - AOL’s instant messenger (AIM). Instead, the implementation and technology were more unique.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

I began asking around who the smartest people in the online media industry were and two names came up again and again — Jonah Peretti (social & viral content) and Ze Frank (social video). I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru. For example, one product alone — Tasty — is consumed by 500 million people per month.

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