Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

Then you can do a little bit of research and find out that very few companies ever achieve this valuation in a trade sale so you’re clearly gunning for an IPO. They did an inside round, spent a bunch of money and then went through a fire sale of the business less than 2 years later. The risk wouldn’t be appropriate.

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Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Silicon Valley Stock 336

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Jeremy Liew, a respected VC from LightSpeed, obviously saw the change to ramp up sales. Seattle-based company specializing in mobile analytics. ShoeDazzle was already profitable and growing and had already taken capital from Polaris Ventures and Crosscut Ventures. It’s a hot but still relatively nascent market area.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Joel moved to Seattle, and worked at Microsoft for three years as a program manager on Excel 4.0 It helps with sales cycles because customers know that they can switch away if they so choose. Upon graduating, he went to work at Microsoft. He then went on to work at Viacom and Juno in NYC.

Software Review 285

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2014

Over the next two years, I made 40 angel investments with the money I made from the sale of the company. I was living in Boulder at this point, but traveling continuously to Boston, New York, San Francisco, and Seattle where I was making most of my investments. Feld Technologies was acquired in November 1993.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

Look, if you work in sales, wanna learn how to sell, and frankly who doesn't check out the sales podcast, where host will Barron helps sales professionals learn how to buyers and win big business ineffective and ethical ways. You get me the sale. And that's probably how things were 20 years ago. Bob Glazer (03:48): Yeah.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2015

b) Increasing average sales prices by upselling (“Would you like fries with that?”), cross-selling (offering related items after purchases are made), and sales after the sales (special offers immediately after the sale). This may involve conducting A/B testing to see which works better. e) Encouraging referrals.

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Technical Review Software Review South Carolina Startup 100

Hunter Walker

MAY 17, 2024

KS: For the first several years of Textio’s life, our team was entirely co-located in Seattle. By the time the pandemic started, we had brought on a couple of sales people in New York and San Francisco, but we were still 95% colocated in Seattle. How did Textio get smarter about remote teams over time?

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2020

The reality is, most 20-somethings that start businesses lack the operational, managerial, sales and financial expertise to scale anything. If you do, tread lightly and—like any good investor—make the targeting of startups less than 10% of your overall marketing and sales portfolio. Without demand, startups falter and ultimately fail.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Apple’s sales increase of close to $234 billion reiterates its commitment to quickly release superior devices to the consumer. It aims to one day expand into a media company; this objective appears more probable as GoPro’s sales continue to increase at a steady rate. Netflix: An Ever-Growing Video Streaming Presence.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 7, 2020

Outreach was named to this prestigious list thanks in part to triple-digit year-over-year revenue growth and the largest customer base in the sales engagement category. Booster Fuels expanded its app-enabled, on-demand fueling services to fleets in Seattle , its first market in the Northwest. You can read all about it here.

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North America Technical Review Seattle Software Review 78

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Empowered introduced “Financing Accelerator”, an online platform designed to simplify clean energy financing for contractors and revolutionize the way financing is seamlessly integrated into the clean energy sales process. Filebase introduced custom domain support for dedicated IPFS gateways.

Portfolio 81

Portfolio Technical Review San Francisco Seattle 81

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2022

After having to reduce and rethink our strategy during COVID, we observed that our community and sales have skyrocketed. When open houses in Seattle Real Estate shut down at the beginning of the pandemic my Photography business knew that Virtual Tours were going to be very important. Photo Credit: Gavin Johnson.

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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. I love the train ride between Portland and Seattle, and I’ve taken it dozens of times, including just riding up and back in a single day. Trains & Hyperloops.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2020

Most Startups Are Poorly Managed The reality is, most 20-somethings that start businesses lack the operational, managerial, sales and financial expertise to scale anything. If you do, tread lightly and—like any good investor—make the targeting of startups less than 10% of your overall marketing and sales portfolio.

Sweat Equity 78

Sweat Equity Non-Compete Startup Azure 78

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Founded by Riley Goodman and Jake Director in 2009 when they were both high school seniors in a Seattle school, Strideline makes a range of crew socks that come with a design of city skylines. The original design featuring the Seattle city skyline sold out in three weeks when it was first launched.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The tool is designed to make it easier for both your sales and marketing teams to work effectively and drive even more conversions. A spreadsheet also doesn’t integrate with your other marketing and sales tools or provide reports and analytics in the same way that a CRM tool can. Manage Your Sales Pipeline.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2021

At first this was limited to news sites that concentrated on a segment of a community, like West Seattle, but the concept is now being applied to advertising and promotion sites, blogging sites, and even legal services sites. Watch out for local sales force requirements. Maybe it’s selling local tours and taking a cut of the revenue.

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Finder Startup Curation Seattle 361

techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

Seattle Meetup. Seattle, WA. with a $3 sale. Life360, A Family Networking App With More. Upcoming Events. Disrupt NY 2013. New York City. Disrupt NY Hackathon 2013. New York City. Austin Meetup. Austin, TX. San Diego Meetup. San Diego, CA. August Capital Party 2013. Menlo Park, CA. Crunch With Us. About & Staff.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Oh, and if you’re in Chicago or Seattle you have your home town events, too. Here’s yours: Chicago (Nov 7) Seattle (Nov 9). **. New tickets about to go on sale for your favorite band – Tweet. In this post I want to talk about a Twitter that I see beyond what is visible to most Twitter users today. ” **.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

But putting no time into anchoring your beliefs because you’re too busy executing sales, marketing, support, product & engineering is an easy recipe for leadership drift. He picked up an expensive defensive player, Byron Maxwell, from the talented Seattle Seahawks for big money. We could all do better – I’m sure.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

He created a scalable model that grew from a small team in a Seattle garage to one of the world’s largest employers. Discover the secrets and strategies of how your business can achieve the frictionless sale. Yeah, it that he built in the garage of a rented home in Seattle. It was just an idea. So it, it applies to everybody.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

by Whitney Keyes , author of “ Propel: Five Ways to Amp Up Your Marketing and Accelerate Business “ In the United States, one thing the city of Seattle, WA, is best known for is its coffee, but there’s an innovative partnership happening around another source of caffeine and that’s the cocoa bean. The result?

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Partner Seattle United States Cofounder 202

David Teten

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The next most important set of metrics are sales by category; working capital (cash and other current assets, less current liabilities); EBITA; and gross margin. … “ Group Health Cooperative , a nonprofit health care system in Seattle with 10,000 employees, has also thrown out its budgeting process.

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

After being installed in 2014 as Microsoft’s new CEO, Nadella has turned around the Seattle ocean liner on a new course after the Ballmer regime. Satya strikes again. Microsoft can seek to better integrate with its new prize and monetize different parts of the network over time (if it chooses to do so).

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Acquisition Azure Open Source Seattle 71

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

For starters they has asked him to hire a CEO (Hamet was a first timer) and that person lived in Seattle even though NextMedium was based in LA. They did development in SF and had the ad sales team in NY. I believe investors had forced him to do this. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see the problems in this structure.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

It’s worth noting that LexSet’s team is distributed with additional team members in Seattle and myself in Los Angeles, giving us great range to take sales meetings all across the country. It’s also steps away from the Rlab , the mixed-reality accelerator we recently graduated from and maintain close ties with.

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Technical Review Los Angeles Cofounder Silicon Valley 63

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 2, 2024

Also, we expect consumers will figure out that they can type in much longer queries, not just restaurants in Seattle, restaurants in Seattle for a family of four with an infant, and the dad loves spicy food and oh, by the way, the wife is lactose intolerant. (06:04): 06:04): That's a long query. And they make it easy to switch.

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SEO Search Generative AI Engineer 91

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2012

At first this was limited to news sites that concentrated on a segment of a community, like West Seattle, but the concept is now being applied to advertising and promotion sites, blogging sites, and even legal services sites. Especially in local communities, people want to know where the sales are, and who is hanging out where.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2011

At first this was limited to news sites that concentrated on a segment of a community, like West Seattle, but the concept is now being applied to advertising and promotion sites, blogging sites, and even legal services sites. Especially in local communities, people want to know where the sales are, and who is hanging out where.

Global 235

Global Finder Startup Seattle 235

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

At first this was limited to news sites that concentrated on a segment of a community, like West Seattle, but the concept is now being applied to advertising and promotion sites, blogging sites, and even legal services sites. Watch out for local sales force requirements. Maybe it’s selling local tours and taking a cut of the revenue.

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Finder Curation Seattle Community 210

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In its most recent quarter, the company processed the exchange of $923 million of sales, which equates to a $3.6B In 2017, the company reported sales of over $500 million. Rover.com (*) in Seattle, which was founded by Greg Gottesman and Aaron Easterly in 2011, is the leading player in this market. annual GMV.

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Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Version One Ventures

JULY 14, 2014

Can upstart ecosystems in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, or Seattle churn out tomorrow’s billion dollar tech companies? It’s relatively easy for a company to scale to 20-25 employees in Seattle, but when a start-up is ready to find its first VP of Sales or Marketing, it often needs to look beyond the local area.

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Silicon Valley Los Angeles San Francisco Seattle 154

adamac.blogspot.com

MARCH 9, 2010

You start hiring a lot of people in sales and marketing to drive revenue, and while you may still be hiring people to do real work, the weight from the top starts to push down on everything else. VC-backed startups can find themselves in a position where there investors are trying to drive growth by pumping money into the company.

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Technical Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO Startup 41

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

She brings more than 15 years of experience from the bankcard industry in direct sales, sales management and marketing to the company and also serves on its Board of Directors. They aren’t exclusive to Silicon Valley types. Advice For The Young At Heart business financing financing Kristen Gramigna private equity'

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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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Technical Review Software Review Prospectus Audience 82

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

I left a 15 year long career in sales, which was a very numbers driven environment to fulfill the need and burning desire to have a job that allows me to be creative and utilize my un-used talents. Image Credit: Seattle Sutton. Thanks to Seattle Sutton ! #8 #2 – A Few Reasons. Image Credit: Melissa Eboli.

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North Dakota Entrepreneur Seattle United States 48

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 30, 2017

What if improving your customer service was all it took to generate more sales and grow your business? Staying focused on a marketing strategy built around customer service is a long-game move that can be easy to get distracted from when you are pressured to make more sales now. Would you do it? Of course you would.

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