InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Avoid too much specificity, as you may risk sounding like yet another startup that is, “Waiting For Google.” Like Godot, you will likely find that Google will never come knocking. For instance, in a company’s early stages, it might be prudent for a Founder to lead the company’s sales efforts.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

It’s insanely competitive to get into our industry so most have degrees from institutions like Stanford, Harvard, Wharton and University of Chicago (blatant plug ;-). Of course it is super helpful if a VC can drop you in to important people for business development, recruiting, PR, sales and eventually M&A. Connections?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2015

External investors will demand a financial forecast, but it’s equally valuable to you, even if bootstrapping. There is no black magic involved in predicting the future, if you use these four simple steps, with my basic rules of thumb to keep you on the right track: Determine your margin on sales. Forecast sales-volume expectations.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

This is important because the customers they serve (the red line) demand a product that meets their complex requirements. In fact, the incumbent is usually very dismissive of this new competition as our the large buyers of the incumbent’s products. About how Microsoft viewed Google Apps. Sony, the iPod.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

It’s not clear that there was big customer demand for some of these products yet entrepreneurs were egged on by VCs to “take the money&# and try and push the market. Facebook, Google) to a large market opportunity then you had better have enough resources to compete. It seemed to be purely speculative. What did he know?

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Avoid too much specificity, as you may risk sounding like yet another startup that is, “Waiting For Google.” Like Godot, you will likely find that Google will never come knocking. For instance, in a company’s early stages, it might be prudent for a Founder to lead the company’s sales efforts.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2010

For a big company, that might be through their own sales force, and for a smaller company it might be a small team which is operating the site themselves. We manage that competition through an aucton process. How is the competitive landscape is nowadays? For instance, they might be selling ad space directly.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

If a consumer will pay a fixed price for a product or service then the battle over who gets the margin in any sale is between the person who merchandises a product and the person who manufactures it. This has obviously occurred in battles with tech platforms like Yelp vs. Google or Zynga vs. Facebook). from Charter’s subscribers.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

OPEC (the organization of petroleum exporting countries) is a cartel that was set up in the 1960′s and represents the interests of the 12 biggest oil producing countries in the world with the goal of increasing prices of oil, a good supplied in limited quantities to a world that had insatiable demand for the product.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

In our industry we call that a TAM (total addressable market) and I’m sure you can even Google methods for calculating a TAM. billion in sales and thus controls less than 10% of the market. This is based on “price elasticity” and you can google that to understand it better. Competition. You need a wedge.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

Fund raising (as is much of life) is a sale – pure and simple. As with any sales campaign you need to: Qualify your buyers early so you focus your scarce resources on people likely to buy your product. . Three rules in sales: Why buy anything? Remember again that the three major steps to a sale are: Why buy anything?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Myspace wasn’t ready for this, and it soon crashed.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. For businesses like this, finding new ways to drive more of these high-value inbound sales calls is key. Who do you view as your biggest competition?

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Frank Addante

JULY 20, 2012

Sales and marketing become the channels to take that product to market and everything else in the organization-finance, human resources, IT-are there to support the product and those who work on it. Great companies like Amazon, Google, and Apple have adopted product-driven structures very successfully. It’s a continuous cycle.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Learning experience includes: on-demand online video tutorial courses, live video-conference workshops, as well as individual online consultations, live workshops, and group programs. Mike’s work in sales, marketing, distribution, and business development is essential to customer acquisition, growth, and scalability. How does it work?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2009

The firm is co-founded by Jake Steinfeld, of Body by Jake, and ExerciseTV, and has received investment from prolific angel investor Ron Conway and Polar Capital, the investment firm of former Google President Tim Armstrong. Tim's the current CEO of AOL, and was President of Google at the time. Thanks for talking with us.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

Adam also had a stint at Mission Ventures, and ran worldwide sales for open source middleware at IBM. We also work with Google's App Engine and widget toolkit. I don't have a long sales cycle, because I'm talking to people who have already chosen Jetty. Where does Webtide fit into the software world? It's extremely widely used.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

On-Demand Lawn Care and Snow Plowing. He was fortunate enough to attend three competitions: Atlanta, Sydney and Athens. B2B Demand Generation on Auto-Pilot – Metadata analyzes your inbound signups and automates b2b user acquisition by targeting new look-alike prospects. Google for nature. Sales Huddle Group.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Bootstrapping enterprise, marketing, Sales. . In 2009 my art blog www.johntunger.com earned $188,138 in gross sales from 205,839 unique visitors. The buzz words of SXSW Interactive 2010: cloud computing, social, on-demand, sharing, collaboration, Entrepreneurism / Monetization Cloud Computing, monetization, Startup. .

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