Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

At the end of 2008, near the bottom of the debt bubble collapse, the overall stock market had dropped about 50%. Email readers, continue here…] How Long Does It Take to Sell a Company? A good rule of thumb is that it will take six to eighteen months from making the decision to completing the sale.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 18, 2012

We failed because the economy has drastically fallen since 2008, particularly in the consumer sector. Since 2008, the company has been forced to lower it’s prices, from $120/hour to $80/hour. From 2008 to 2011, the company paid its own bills, we were cash flow positive and we believed we could maintain this trend indefinitely.

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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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socalTECH

MAY 24, 2011

I had requests from friends to put them on an email, or give them a calendar reminder when a band was playing, and one thing led to another, and I started the site. Vic Caretti: The site was launched in April of 2008. Vic Caretti: When I started this in 2008, I didn't even look at the business model. It's just grown on its own.

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Eric Greenspan

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

I’ve remained a skeptic about the BBB and as a result of an email I received a couple of weeks ago from them, I have raised the skepticism threat level. So here’s the email I received: Eric, My name is Chad Ratliffe emailing from the Better Business Bureau. That’s how we do business at Make It Work.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

years ago you’d remember RIP Good Times from Sequoia, which still strikes me as having been prudent advice in late 2008. That was back when VCs weren’t so quick to respond to emails. As with tonight I got my kids to bed, did some email, caught 30 minutes of the news then sat down to type. So which is it? I did that?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 12, 2011

We had great growth, fueled a little by the downturn in the economy in 2008. We definitely benefited from consumers hungry for a deal and merchants hungry for sales. You can tell us something about the brands, merchants, and what types of deals you like, and we'll send those to you via email, or when you go to our site.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

But, with the economy turning south in 2008, lots of those customers went out of business. That tool is being used to drive traffic and acquire emails, which is why it's a part of Deal Current. Jimmy Hendricks: We make a percentage of every sale. Jimmy Hendricks: My background is I spent a year at Active.com in 2007 and 2008.

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socalTECH

MAY 5, 2009

The sixth is marketing analytics, including SEM/SEO, collecting customer names, emails -- we use ExactTarget for emails, and Omniture for Analytics. It turned out to be fortuitous timing, we closed the round in literally, late, late, late 2008. Who knew then that things would get so shaky.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 3, 2012

However, sales plummeted once the popularity of the Kingsmen's single spread from Boston, eventually becoming a national hit. In contrast, songwriting and recording of Axel Rose's Chinese Democracy began in 1994, yet the album was not released until 2008. Was the excessive cost and time well spent? Share and Enjoy.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Three reasons: There is a relative valuation between the price a VC pays and their expectations of what it will exit for in an IPO or trade sale. Also, it’s harder to pay a $30 million pre-money value on an unproved company when you see public companies with $100 million in sales trading for less than $20 million.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Groupon Payments credit cards also promise to make it easy for merchants to calculate bill totals, process refunds, redeem Groupon vouchers, email receipts and save times and money. Groupon was founded in 2008 and is headed by Chief Executive Andrew Mason and claims to have helped over 250,000 businesses grow.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

In 2008, he founded StackOverflow , and it has become the foundation for a question and answer platform called StackExchange. It helps with sales cycles because customers know that they can switch away if they so choose. Juno provided a free email service. Stackoverflow was created in 2008. His Tenure at Microsoft.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. VC’s are working hand-in-glove with the investment bankers to prepare for IPOs or create auction-style trade sales.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

We founded the company in 2008, inspired by and around the first iPhone. The use cases range from sales enablement to human resources, to executive reporting. Before, they had BlackBerries and smartphones, but you couldn't do much beyond email. For those not familiar with Roambi, can you tell us about the product?

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socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2012

In 2008, we built applications for musicians Travis Barker and DJ-AM, which provided a mixtape in exchange for a tweet. We're hiring senior developers, and we're also focusing on sales operations as well. He had been at Interscope, working with artists, and saw that people online constantly wanted new content from those artists.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

History repeated itself in September 2008 with that market crash. VC, sales, biz dev, M&A or otherwise. I always made them commit in an email to the day they would ship documents and then I’d hold them too it. I’d send them their email and point out the docs were late. VC, sales, biz dev, M&A or otherwise.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

There are too many to mention but I’ve noticed them all on Twitter, Facebook, blogs and people who have emailed or texted me. I asked him what motivated him and he told me, “I started it in 2008 as a project with my daughter helping canvass for Obama. Hunter Walk, Brad Feld, Chris Sacca and Kara Swisher are just a few.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

If I’m not mistaken, I may have been the first person to send out an angel “personal intro&# email on AngelList through their new platform when it launched or at least I was one of the first few. But before I sent it I had made 10 private phone calls, sent emails & built support. It worked like a charm.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

I stayed up late every night after a day of meetings doing email until 3am so that I didn’t feel out of touch with our product and sales pipelines. The time zones, the travel, 2 kids, pressure, managing the sales process, speaking at conferences Somehow I had yo-yo’d back to where I was previously.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 13, 2010

Mark Tapling: Starting in March of 2008, Language Weaver really embarked on a growth strategy. Every single person, starting with myself and through Daniel and Kevin, the founders, down to our engineering, field, sales, are remaining in their roles, down to the phone numbers and emails. Mark, thanks for the time today.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

I was in Hawaii, and I discovered there were all kinds of aggregators over there--independent sales reps out of kiosks in Waikiki and Lahaina, out where you're walking down the street at night--offering things like 20 percent of fishing tours, and so on--selling off commissions for fishing and other activities.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

As an employee of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets from 1999-2003 and of the Indianapolis Pacers from 2003-2008, I learned first-hand from the likes of Rod Thorn, Byron Scott, Jason Kidd and Larry Bird about the importance of leading by example and keys to assembling a championship-caliber team. How many users?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I was the senior guy there, and I ran the registry/gift services, national sales and advertising, and travel services. She left her job at Genzyme, and we started the company in January of 2008. We did a seed round in January of 2008, and did our angel round which we closed last week. How did the company come about?

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Heres 5 steps to start exploring: View the "Best Of" list with 50+ essays on viral marketing, gaming, and ads » Get introduced: About this blog, why entrepreneurs and marketers recommend it » Receive updates by email or RSS feed or Twitter. Where it might look something like: 1000, profile.photo.update, 1, 9:30AM 3/14/2008.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2009

It's unusual to have a CEO from the technology side, they're usually from sales. So, we've build a task manager module which tracks thigns that need to be done, to make sure multiple people sign off on documents, validate when they're done, send an email alert, etc.--all What's the story behind Blackline, and how did it start?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Jeremy Liew, a respected VC from LightSpeed, obviously saw the change to ramp up sales. Marketing and lead automation software for businesses; claim to have largest market share in sector since March 2008. ShoeDazzle was already profitable and growing and had already taken capital from Polaris Ventures and Crosscut Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

2008 App ecosystem on iOS = $0. Nothing was more heart warming than the photo of David Karp hugging Bijan Sabet after the sale to Yahoo! Many don’t return my emails on time. Compare the state of play in 2013 versus 15 years ago. 33% of the world is on the Internet on average of 3.1 hours / day. ” Fair enough.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Last November, the Web-search giant opened a flashy new office in Venice to focus on engineering, sales and advertising; the company will lease close to a quarter-million square feet in the neighborhood by 2014. with her husband, Douglas, a former Google chief information officer, in late 2008. Community Home Loans: FOR SALE.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 19, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. StrongMail is proven to be the fastest, easiest and most reliable solution for email delivery.

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 31, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. We focused on proving that StrongMail is the best way to get email reliably delivered to the Inbox.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. ► October (1) New Video! This would later inspire the genesis of StrongMail.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 13, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. ► October (1) New Video!

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Our Best Interviews Via Email: Monthly. Matt McKinney is the Founder of TiesForCharity.com, a trendy tie company that donates a percentage of each tie sale to unique charities. He began developing the business model for scoreAscore.com in October of 2008. Email Address. Idea Mensch. Subscribe to RSS. Subscribe to RSS.

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