Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Tom is CEO and co-founder of ASLAN Training, a global sales enablement company appearing nine consecutive years in the Selling Power Top 20. Since 1996, ASLAN has worked with many Fortune 500 companies, training more than 100,000 sellers and leaders in over 35 countries. Marketing Podcast with Tom Stanfill. Like this show?

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

In the mid-1990s, a good friend of mine, Gene Kim (founder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails: A Business Novel ) and I were in graduate school together in the Computer Science program at the University of Arizona. Here’s an example using two personal computers, one from 1996 and one from 2011.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

by Evgeny Glariantov , founder of FREED. The first project of this kind was GIMPS , a large-scale program launched in 1996 for the purpose of searching for Mersenne prime numbers , that is prime numbers of the form 2 p — 1 where P is a random integer. Prime time.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Anand Sanwal , co-founder and CEO of CB Insights ; and Chris Shipley , executive producer of MIT’s Solve initiative, joined me in the studio to discuss the day-to-day chaos of building a company. As the executive producer of the DEMO conference from 1996 to 2009, she helped more than 1,500 companies make their market debut.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Im one of those people whos been programming since they can remember. I got my start programming on an old IBM XT; it was thanks to MUDs that I first discovered the internet. I will come back for more.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Most small businesses and startups do not have a dedicated human resource professional to manage the endless details of benefit plans, recruiting, payroll, and records keeping so those tasks typically fall to a founder or general manager. A great guide to the balanced scorecard approach can be found in the classic 1996 book by Robert S.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

The standards were set by the IAB ( Interactive Advertising Bureau ), which was founded in 1996. They cancelled this program. I just love the concept and the founder of the company, Ari Jacoby. Normalizing ad units obviously has a benefit. Like many users I just started reading the WaPo OpEds more. But is there a better way?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

That year the two founders decided to get serious about being a company, and hired a CEO. In 1996 RIM was still in the hardware business selling packet-switched wireless radio modems to OEMs. The founders could have easily described the product as “the first packet-switched interactive messaging network.” They did none of that.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Dave Tisch, Founder & Managing Director, TechStars NYC. Mr. Fralic has 25 years of technology industry experience, with significant Internet business development roles since 1996. Dave Tisch is Founder and Managing Director of TechStars in NYC and is an angel investor through the BoxGroup. Mike Yavonditte, CEO, Hashable.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

In 1996, when I started my first company, SneakerLabs, Inc., Another customer was my alma mater, Carnegie Mellon University, who was using it to host online class discussions for its distance education program. Founders often forget that their interests and the VCs interests are not all the same.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Believe it or not, three years after founding the company in 1996, Larry Page and Sergey Brin actually tried to sell Google for $1 million. The founders sold the two year old company to eBay in 2005 for $2.6 . - Modest profitability. - The price offered was high for this type of business. No introduction is required here. Unprofitable.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 15, 2011

OK, I may be biased having been an early stage VC based out of New York since 1996, but I must say that the vibe, energy, and people at the Techstars NYC Demo Day event yesterday was simply awesome. Dave Tisch and team simply did a fantastic job guiding the startups, recruiting the mentors, and organizing the event.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 15, 2011

OK, I may be biased having been an early stage VC based out of New York since 1996, but I must say that the vibe, energy, and people at the Techstars NYC Demo Day event yesterday was simply awesome. Dave Tisch and team simply did a fantastic job guiding the startups, recruiting the mentors, and organizing the event.

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Kodorra

DECEMBER 2, 2018

What you are not aware of is how much struggle the founders had to go through to get to that pinnacle of success. The founder Robert Hull advice startup founders not to pay close attention to the rejections but focus on their business. Hotmail was developed by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia in 1996.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

The piece focuses on some Wharton Profs and also mentions that the professor who helped Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in their early days has ended up with a net worth of $1.6 In 1996 two students came to Reibstein with a business plan they were developing based on an idea that Reibstein had kicked around during a class lecture.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Om Malik is the founder of GigaOM. He is the founder of Desiparty.com. Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned. Being a startup founder is hard, tough, frustrating and rewarding – possibly all within the space of a nanosecond. Are You Winning As a Founder? He is a venture partner at True Ventures.

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Austin Startup

MAY 24, 2017

We develop programming (meetups, seminars, markets, festivals and other pop-up events) to promote and connect self-identifying women in creative industry and the arts, because we find stats like these concerning. You’ll probably hear founder, Jane Hervey asking the crowd to “embrace the awkward,” and introduce yourself to somebody new.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Today I’m thrilled to share the story of my long-time friends and Kansas Citians Casey and Sloane Simmons, co-founders of a store called Stuff , as a part of the “Amex Welcomed” program with @americanexpress , which is showcasing the people behind our favorite local businesses that welcome American Express.

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Jeff Hilimire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

that’s Raj on the left, me next to him, and our two college roommates in 1996). I met Raj in college at UNC-Charlotte in 1996. Raj would do the creative and I would do the programming. The hardest part of that, as it turns out, is walking away from Raj for the first time in 15 years. That put us on the map my friend.

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Austin Startup

MAY 21, 2017

It also highlights the vision that Laura Kilcrease and George Kozmetsky had more than 20 years ago to create the first program like this of it’s kind. The only way to get free software was to apply for beta programs, which were not open to the public back then and usually required that you sign an Non-Disclosure Agreement.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

A few years later my boss there, Charles Conn (who now runs the Rhodes Scholarship program), left the Firm to found CitySearch , a first generation online cityguide business. It was 1996, so within 6 months anyone working in the internet was a relative expert, and I’ve been working in consumer tech ever since.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

A few years later my boss there, Charles Conn (who now runs the Rhodes Scholarship program), left the Firm to found CitySearch , a first generation online cityguide business. It was 1996, so within 6 months anyone working in the internet was a relative expert, and I’ve been working in consumer tech ever since.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

And since a startup thatsucceeds ordinarily makes its founders rich, that implies gettingrich is doable too. A lot ofwould-be startup founders think the key to the whole process is theinitial idea, and from that point all you have to do is execute.Venture capitalists know better. Ideally you want between two and four founders.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 30, 2023

03:44] As you’re pitching this idea maybe to some sort of corporate program to an executive, what do you talk about as the top-line benefits of bringing this into a culture? [06:24] She's the founder and CEO of JAM, a multi-million dollar global business that has connected millions of people through play. That's a great question.

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ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2018

Therefore it’s important to understand not just WHAT your testing program is doing, but WHY it’s doing it. Many email delivery solutions like MailChimp, Bronto, and Campaign Monitor all have A/B functionality built into their programs. Once that’s clear, it’s easy to apply those key principles to many other areas of the business.

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K9 Ventures

MARCH 22, 2009

I still kick myself for not moving here in 1996, when I started my first company. For someone coming out of a good graduate program (like I was at Carnegie Mellon when I started and like the person who inspired this post is at Stanford) there is no dearth of job opportunities. A decision to pick your co-founders.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Facebook Co-Founder’s Startup Asana Launches Publicly. Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austin’s seed-stage incubator. He founded SKYLIST in 1996 from his college dorm room at Carnegie Mellon, and created UnsubCentral in 2004. Movie Lists.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

In all cases, these names were derived by the Founders, without the involvement of consultants, MBAs, focus groups, statistically valid surveys or other detriments to a startup’s ability to make quick, sound decisions. Jerry Yang and David Filo, Yahoo’s Founders, chose the name, as they considered themselves to be “Yahoos.”.When

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Software By Rob

MARCH 12, 2009

Front End Developer Resume, An 11-pound Notebook, A 2-pound Netbook, and Internet 1996 → How Third-Party Licensing Can Ruin Your Launch Micropreneurship , Startups If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue. The founders have started companies before. More recently, Israeli founders are themselves moving to the U.S. So how do Israeli ventures scale up? American VCs are critical.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

I just dont comment. :) Steve, The term was in active use in 1996 in the MMO world, which predates Googles founding. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Amazon PostRank

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

I have been involved in startups since I graduated from college in 1996. My founders and I started the company about three years ago. It helps you when you’re investing in a marketing program even though what ad spend or what cost of acquisition you’re comfortable with.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

That is why I invited the Founder & CEO, Jonah Peretti , to come talk at the 2017 Upfront Summit and make the case himself. For those too young to remember perhaps the best known of this era came in 1996 and was known as Dancing Baby , a strange, animated gif of — you guessed it. Back then there were “email forwards.”

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