David Teten

MARCH 24, 2014

To quote my Partner John Frankel , traditional money managers are great at managing your money until there is none left. We over-weighted small cap value stocks in 1998-2002. Chernick: Exactly. We know that we at Koffler have added value, and where we add value, because we measure it. It was a nutty thing to do at the time.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Similarly, in it’s own 2002 study, the communications agency Cone found that 77 percent of respondents said that a company’s commitment to social issues was a major factor when deciding where to work,” writes CEO of TOMS shoes Blake Mycoskie, in his book Start Something That Matters. Healthcare, dental, and vision; especially in the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

Inbound calls from partners, people who want to join, atta boys from friends. We just landed the biz dev partner we’ve been working on for 9 months. Google DID NOT just acquire our main biz dev partner. Every one of these events (with names changed) has happened to companies I’ve worked at or closely with.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

They took on cheesy stock photos and cringey names like Big Spender Billy. It wasn’t helped by the fact that marketers seem fond of giving their personas silly names, such as “Social Butterfly Brenda” or “Value Hunter Valerie,” that attempt to collapse nuanced research into a single concept.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

My Experience Back in 2002/2003 I spent hours writing a sales letter and emailing it to 15 local design firms, offering my services as an outsourced development staff (I coded in PHP,NET and Java at the time). In the end you have to invest time to build your name. Being a partner of a tool you customize was the best.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 22, 2020

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. For me, the name for Moonshine Lamp Company came pretty quickly and was set in stone after about fifteen minutes of brainstorming. Dinnocenzo.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Naming a Business. One of the ways vendors and partners--whose behind-the-scenes assistance often is crucial to a start-ups success--can get a piece of the action is to exchange services for equity. In 2002, he stepped gingerly into the work-for-equity arena, with a modest investment in one start-up. Tools & Research.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 7, 2017

One of the best definitions I’ve found, which expounds a bit more, comes from Tony Zambito circa 2002 : Tony Zambito: Buyer personas are research-based archetypal (modeled) representations of who buyers are, what they are trying to accomplish, what goals drive their behavior, how they think, how they buy, and why they make buying decisions.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

We were founded by a gentleman named Bob Young, who was the original co-founder of Red Hat, which is a massive software company. Um, he and his partner took Red Hat to an IPO early days, and Bob found himself with a lot of time and a lot of money, and a lot of people wanted to hear his story. Conferences, excuse me.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. can introduce a ‘fighter brand,’ a lower-priced version of the premium offering sold under a different name and backed by minimal advertising.” What the big studies have shown. companies covering the period 1982–99, which included a recession during 1990–91. Image source ).

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Zhitao runs Hangzhou Liaison Interactive, which is a Chinese technology-based company founded in July 2002. Sachin Bansal and his business partner, Binny Bansal, launched an e-commerce site in India in 2007. The name of this startup was Flipkart and they started it with $6,500. Today, he is worth $1 billion. Sachin Bansal.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

He is a venture partner at True Ventures. But it was a conversation with Toni Schneider (now CEO of Automattic, the on-demand WordPress service), and a venture partner at True that made it all come together. Name (required). Om Malik is the founder of GigaOM. He also has contributed to the Wall Street Journal and the Economist.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 14, 2018

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. 2- A name to push back against antiquated industry practices. 3- Used my name as part of it. Thanks to Nicole T. Photo Credit: Tony Palazzo.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Last week I spoke with a partner at a large VC firm whose firm has been around for a long time. They have a new seed program (as of a few years ago) after eschewing seed investments from 2002 to 2008. The partner that I talked to told me that they are doing 30 seed investments out of their newest fund.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

I was on an airplane 2-3 times / week meeting potential customers, investors, employees, business partners and the press. By the time of my wedding in July 2002 I was super fit. We built 4 products simultaneously to compete with the perceived need to offer end-to-end solutions like our US counterparts. I thought that, too.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 9, 2018

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. 1- Unique name addressing what we’re doing. Lately other data storage startups were choosing names ending in.io

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

There are folks who dont like me, or who are annoyed by me, but if Id broken somebodys trust in regard to their work, I guarantee itd be just about the first thing youd find when you Google my name. I would love to be plagiarized and embroiled in a lawsuit--the curiosity factor alone would boost my sales and name recognition exponentially.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 10, 2017

This is not only to prevent your clients and partners from being caught off-guard by the rebranded communication, but to also get critical feedback from them during the transition process. So between 2002 and 2007, Compaq continued to use their logo with little change. HP Merger With Compaq. Old Spice Rebranding.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 14, 2014

If Anchor Point rings a bell to you, it’s because it’s the name of our foundation (the Anchor Point Foundation) and we’ve done some really fun things with it such as the Anchor Point Fellows Program at Wellesley College. The two week trips turned into three week trips and we ultimately bought a house in Homer in 2002.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

Inbound calls from partners, people who want to join, atta boys from friends. We just landed the biz dev partner we’ve been working on for 9 months. Google DID NOT just acquire our main biz dev partner. Every one of these events (with names changed) has happened to companies I’ve worked at or closely with.

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Exclusive: Returns for brand-name VC funds By Dan Primack August 20, 2012: 12:15 PM ET. Now Fortune has obtained more granular data, including returns for dotcom-era funds managed by such firms as Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, General Catalyst Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Mutual Funds.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 3, 2016

With incorporation, you can be assured that your business, that brain child of yours, will live on and its existence will not be dependent on yours (or the life of your business partner). Checking of name availability. Transfer shares easily. Stamping of copy of Articles. Preparation of state-approved Articles of Incorporation.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

In June of last year it raised $35 million from Millicom International Cellular , following Serie A funding of $26 million earlier that year from Summit Partners. “We According to Future Africa’s Ledgard, in 2002 the wildest expectations of emerging African mobile phone operator Safaricom were 400,000 users in the next ten years.

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Up and Running

APRIL 4, 2014

Part of the problem was that the company bought into its own hype, but the bigger sin was that Pets.com’s owners—Hummer Winblad Venture Partners—ignored the fundamentals. Well, for one thing, the name. Of the 18,000 names that poured in, the company whittled the list down to ten prospects. By 2002, New Coke was dead.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 14, 2012

I sold the first company I founded, a computer technology integrator, to private equity in 2002. With a partner, I built and sold my second company to a Fortune 500 in about two and a half years. The money from the sale went into a temporary bank account my partner and I set up. (We Depositing Six Figure Checks.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

and the Soviet Union faced off with a nuclear deterrence policy called mutually assured destruction (aptly named MAD.) In Afghanistan in 2002 U.S. Army – build teams that deliver solutions to complex problems, with access to the entire network of suppliers and partners that Newell and Felter developed throughout their careers.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

It’s even better if you can make your search specific by including the name of the bank you’re looking for information on. Just make sure you can spot the advertisements: Look for “Ad” on the left side under the name of the website. Try variations on this formula: [industry name] business incubator/accelerator in [city, country].

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Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 19, 2009

  In 2001/2002, it was Tyco’s CEO Dennis Koszlowski spending $1 million of shareholder money on his wife’s 40 th birthday party (mine is coming up this summer, by the way, and I don’t think it will cost my LPs very much at all, really). .   Have every Fortune 500 compensation committee run by a start-up CEO.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 8, 2014

They’re a camera company that got started in 2002. My partner, James Shields , is an avid unicyclist. Most were plastic, or they were made using boring wood, or they were poorly shaped, poorly finished, you name it. And, there’s the added bonus of encouraging people to drive better. Very clever. Ever heard of GoPro?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

I want to thank Techstars for putting this event together and giving me a chance to experience the scene, even if it lacks a name. For what its worth, I like Silicon Mountain. Brad Feld also had some thoughts on this event on his blog.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2014

A few weeks ago I spoke with Boris Wertz, founder of JustBooks, COO of AbeBooks and founding-partner of Version One Ventures. In Boris is currently based in Vancouver, Canada and has been since 2002, after his own company, JustBooks, was acquired by AbeBooks. Boris Wertz. Image credit Flickr. The internet makes this easy enough.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Ben & Jerry’s is a quirky ice cream company that’s best known for its creatively-named flavors and outspoken political advocacy. In 2002, the Glacéau, line of beverages became the top-selling enhanced water brand in America and it raked in $350 million in revenues in 2006. Ben & Jerry’s. Burt’s Bees.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Here’s a review from Judah Phillips ,, an analytics expert, consultant, and author who wrote Building a Digital Analytics Organization , Digital Analytics Primer , and Ecommerce Analytics : Judah Phillips : “Adobe offers a selection of analytics products named “Adobe Analytics” as part of the “Adobe Marketing Cloud.”

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Mental Pandiculation » Why I Don’t Hang Out With People Named David. ” I’m quite sure with this article you alienated not only few potential customers or partners but also some existing ones. Name one widely acclaimed or groundbreaking technology or technique to come out of the.NET realm in the past 5 years?

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

MANAGE MY SUBSCRIPTIONS By clicking the Subscribe button, you agree to the Privacy Policy Fintech products ease more Americans into the stock market The percentage of Americans who own stocks is falling, according to the Wall Street Journal : only 55 percent own stocks today, compared to 67 percent in 2002. in addition to home ownership.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Between 2002 and 2012, enterprises with over 1000 employees lost over one million employees. In 2010, he was named one of Business Insider’s Silicon Valley 100 and in 2011, as one of BusinessWeek’s 30 under 30 Best Tech Entrepreneurs. . Thinking Aloud Bill Clerico technology trends WePay'

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The studio’s design talent boasts some famous names among the list of partners, including Paula Scher, Michael Beirut, Alan Fletcher, Colin Forbes, Harry Pearce, and many more. Since then, it has taken on design work for clients large and small, including big names like The Economist and Apple. Headquarters: London.

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