Startup Grind

AUGUST 13, 2018

Taskrabbit; Nov 2009 What is one question you ask yourself before investing in a company? Favorite business book, blog, podcast? The strategy to minimize loss is not the strategy to win. Execute on the strategy to win. What and when was your very first investment? What struck you about them? Eliminate distractions.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The company, with bases in both Austin and Australia, was started in 2009 and facilitates exits for millions of online business owners, some that operate on e-commerce marketplaces, blogs, SaaS and apps, the newest data integration being for Shopify, Blake Hutchison, CEO of Flippa, told TechCrunch.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The best strategy is to mix approaches. Michael Klazema has been developing products for criminal background check and improving online customer experiences in the background screening industry since 2009. appeared first on THE BLOG. He is the lead author and editor for Backgroundchecks.com.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

When we interviewed him last July , Hughes explained that he would refer leads to EveryDeveloper when they needed to sort out their content strategy. The idea for this book dates back to my time at ProgrammableWeb (2009-2014). There are about a dozen of us, split between content strategy and production. The main takeaway?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 5, 2018

It was such a blast that I did it again in 2009. I had many different strategies, but was not sure how it was going to work out. By reaching out to people who’d appeared on the show, I gained valuable insights and strategies. The post How I Got a Deal on Shark Tank appeared first on THE BLOG. How Hire Santa Started.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 29, 2016

In 2009, he gave an interview with Francesco Guerrera of the Financial Times and said, “On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world. Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy … your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.”. The post Why be B?

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EntreWorks Consulting

MARCH 10, 2020

In recent years, many states and communities have embraced food systems and ag/food sector development as core economic development strategies. EntreWorks Blog. This is a field with lots of innovation and creativity underway, but one of my favorite efforts has been Vermont’s Farm to Plate programming.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Over the weekend, I watched Page One, a documentary which chronicles the turmoil occurring within the New York Times in 2009 and 2010 when newspapers were going out of business all over the country. Since 2009, the NY Times has created more than 40 successful blogs. Many wondered if the Times would also file for bankruptcy.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

For example, on their 2009 pitch deck, Airbnb had a market validation slide to support their thesis that people would be willing to stay on strangers’ couches. We do videos on this process all the time, there are a lot of free resources on our blog. Market validation/why now (optional). This is our redesign of that slide.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Founded in 2009 by top scientists in the fields of aging, genetics and biology from Harvard, MIT and Tufts, InsideTracker is a truly personalized nutrition and performance system, aiming to help people optimize their bodies from the inside out. says Myoung Cha, chief strategy officer and president of Omnichannel Care at Carbon Health.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. Even tech blogs know this. You own the IP you create.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

I wrote a blog post related to this called Is it Time to Earn or to Learn? I ran a team of 14 people (12 Japanese, 1 German and 1 Turk … both of whom were fluent in Japanese) who produced an Internet strategy for the board of Sony. So in that context let me use it. If you don’t have entrepreneurial dreams no problem.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 1, 2019

Mark Zuckerberg, for example, has been making his goals public since 2009. Once you have set big-picture goals, craft strategies that will help you achieve those goals. When your strategies are simple, success doesn’t have to be hard. And he’s not the only executive to use new year’s as a catalyst to improve his business.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 20, 2019

It has been almost 10 years since I walked into a Strategy Summit dinner, my absolute first experience with EO. I was hired in early June 2009 as the part-time administrator for the EO Philadelphia chapter. The post #BecauseofEO: Love and Support Through the Unthinkable appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

And if you are – what on earth are you reading such a boring blog as this?!? OK, that sounds like an interesting business, but nothing to write a freakin’ blog post about? Gogii spent way more effort marketing to what I call “The USA Today market&# rather than the tech blog market. But I never gave up.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. In a world where the economy only heads in one direction (read: 2009-2014) most investors & entrepreneurs forget to pay attention to gross burn. But this strategy great depends on point 3. Profitability.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

And then I got into strategy consulting, and I wanted to go into strategy consulting, and they said, “Yeah, but you’re a tech guy. We don’t take tech guys in the strategy consulting group.” Probably the internet helped because they needed internet skills in their strategy group.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

So my strategy was to focus on technology heavy companies who could bring measurability and performance to inefficient parts of the digital media landscape. It’s why Commission Junction, LinkShare, Google, PepperJam & many more now all use RingRevenue to power their click-to-call strategies. This is becoming a huge business.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

By 2009 had reduced to around $15 billion in capital from LPs. I’ll admit that I do know one VC firm who’s strategy is not to call their entrepreneurs and not to be involved in operations. But I became a VC in 2007 and wrote my first check in 2009 – 4.5 And reinventing itself. And some firms will go under.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 24, 2020

In the last US economic downturn in 2008-2009, my Forum and EO taught me that the keys to surviving are being the first to respond, taking quick decisive action and being agile. We also utilized a no-limit credit card to buy US$200,000 more plexiglass from another vendor. . Learn more. .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 11, 2018

Jill shared lessons learned and more in a blog post to mark the occasion. … 2009: Know what you stand for and surround yourself with people who are aligned with that mission. We grew our customer count 30% in 2009. The strategy of 2008 serves as a pivotal lesson of our 15-year life.

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