Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Mastering SEO in the Age of AI written by Tosin Jerugba read more at Duct Tape Marketing  The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Stephan Spencer, an acclaimed SEO expert and founder of net Concepts, an interactive agency specializing in search engine optimization.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I don’t believe that search is the only answer in 2010 as it was in 2000. Finally, I HATE the name. Golden rule of branding for me: 1) name your company or product your URL and 2) don’t paint yourself into a corner. &# Tweet&# = corner. My bet: within 18 months they will change the name and go multi-stream.

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Venture Capital Affiliate Valuation San Francisco 271

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

I’ve decided to take all of my private conversations and subjective points-of-view on the topic and make them public in a keynote speech at the Founder Showcase in San Francisco on June 15th. It was early 2000. They get a cheaper price, they wipe out much founder stock value and they reissue you new options. and more.

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Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Silicon Valley Stock 336

Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Anonymity is the new black: You may remember in the early commercial web era – post 1993, we all had alias names and emails before we felt comfortable enough to convert to our actual human self on line. Still waiting for wearables: It feels like we are in early 2000′s phase for smart phones when it comes to wearable computing.

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Technical Review Valuation Software Review Social Media 100

K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Manu Kumar is Founder and Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures. Kumar was the Founder, President and CEO of SneakerLabs, a company which developed software and services for web-based customer interaction. We grew it to just under 20 people and were acquired at the height of the bubble in 2000.

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San Francisco Early Stage Portfolio Software Engineering 48

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

The A round was done in February 2000 (end of the bull market) and my B round was done in April 2001 (bear market). But most importantly I lectured founders that you can’t avoid the admin of setting up your ESOP. << we then discussed the need to do trademarks on your company and your key brand names.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet Valuation Stock Options 282

YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2017

The early 2000’s was also when the likes of legendary serial entrepreneurs Musk, Branson, and Jeff Bezos founded their own space tourism companies. In 2000, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos established Blue Origin. Named after Alan B. Shepard, America’s first astronaut, Blue Origin’s spacecraft is known as the New Shepard.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. My company name is 3 Leaf Tea. The name is from when tea leaves get picked there’s often one two or three leaves and a bud.

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Naming Entrepreneur Green LLC 97

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

As a percentage of total US employment, proprietors have steadily increased every year since 2000. The US labor force gained over 10 million more working proprietors between 2000 and 2012—with over 21% of working Americans receiving at least part of their income through self-employment.

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Silicon Valley Non-Compete API Vertical 217

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

More than 2000 years after the first coin was minted in ancient Asia Minor, the world of dollar bills, central banks and the traditional banking system is being disrupted by cryptocurrencies – and there’s way more to this new world than just Bitcoin.

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Asia Global Community Naming 189

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. I’m sure many of you have heard his name. If they don’t, then the management team has simply become caretakers of the founders’ legacy. Now look around.

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

by Evgeny Glariantov , founder of FREED. Another important project was launched in 1999 at the UC Berkeley which has arguably become the most famous example of the volunteer computing model — the SETI@home program (if there’s a “@home” suffix in the name of a project it means that it involves exclusively home computers).

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Search Aggregator Distribution Framework 179

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2019

No longer just an auction site, eBay introduced the “ Buy it Now ” option in 2000. Company names like “Just Tables” or “Headphone Hut” will limit your ability to evolve and grow as new opportunities arise. Today, eBay is taking steps to elevate their overall user experience. Develop a brand that allows you to evolve. Craigslist.

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Design Audience Small Business Naming 173

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2014

In fact, since 2000, more than 10 million Americans have filed personal bankruptcy due to their employers’ failed health insurance plan. It’s overpriced, unreliable — you can lose your coverage if you’re sick and unable to work — and limits you to a certain group of medical providers and facilities, just to name a few.

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Software Review Employee Retention Government 224

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. It became a huge kerfuffle with many VC partners writing to thank me for the post, which exposed those that gave their industry a bad name. In case VC’s haven’t figured this out yet, shit rolls downhill.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 21, 2023

Before we get into a debate about how much a founder should own, there’s a context implicit in the question that is easily overlooked. Now that we’ve established that, let’s talk about founder blind spots. That doesn’t make you a bad founder. And as for the founder incentive thing, I have two comments. Did you spot it?

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Cap Table Term Sheet Database Option Pool 78

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

by Scott Bennett, Founder and CEO of Skratch. Today’s teens face a trending decline in traditional summer jobs including lawn care help, food service attendant, and store cashier, to name a few. Since 2000, employment for teens between the ages of 16-24 has dropped 35% and with minimum wage soaring to upwards of $15.00

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Demand Mobile Security Founder 172

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

Cameron is t he founder of the COO Alliance, the World’s Leading Network for Seconds in Command. One when scale started to kick in, when we hit the, you know, 200 employees at the head office, 2000 employees system wide, it started to get complex and a little bit outside of my sandbox. Marketing Podcast with Cameron Herold.

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CTO Cofounder Networking Operations 79

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 13, 2022

Mike is also the founder of Profit First Professionals. He is also the founder of profit first professionals. And we've now over a thousand student, over 2000 students, I've gone through that program. And the owner, his name's actually Stephen King. This is John Jantsch. My guest today is Mike MCIT. It's a barbecue.

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Employee Design Networking Differentiation 91

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Legal isn’t the whole issue with names. Lots of legal names work fine until you grow and run into somebody else with the same name, in the same business area, who had it first. But when they started to grow, Victoria’s Secret would have had legal right to force them to come up with a new name.

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Naming Oregon Idaho Silicon Valley 60

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2021

I still have the Brooks Brothers striped shirt that Len and his partner Jerry Poch gave me when we signed the documents for Feld Technologies to be bought by Sage Alerting Systems (which changed its name to Sage Technologies and then changed it to AmeriData). I remember clearly a phone call on 12/1/2000 where Len called me from NYC.

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SEC Cofounder Boston New York 164

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2020

The defining moment for VisionSpring was when Founder Jordan Kassalow went on a volunteer mission to Mexico at age 23. He arrived at the project site as a young optometrist to find 2000 people waiting to have their eyes checked. How was VisionSpring named? We have come really far since then – next year is our 20 th year.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The defining moment for VisionSpring was when Founder Jordan Kassalow went on a volunteer mission to Mexico at age 23. He arrived at the project site as a young optometrist to find 2000 people waiting to have their eyes checked. How was VisionSpring named? We have come really far since then – next year is our 20 th year.

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Jordan Bangladesh India Mexico 62

Genuine VC

AUGUST 3, 2012

The company’s familiarity is along what we consider to be the three most important criteria for an investment in a seed-stage startup – team, market, and product: Team – Two of the co-founders were well-known to the NextView partnership years before a line of code was even written.

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Seed Stage Cofounder Portfolio Curation 199

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

when you missed your targets, when your co-founder quit, when the competition chose your competitor or when the other investors around the table lost confidence? My chips were down in late 2000 / early 2001. One small hack – go to LinkedIn and do a search for the company name. When the world was ending? After Sept 11th?

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Venture Capital Term Sheet Cofounder Partner 288

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 19, 2023

Previously, Rob was the founder and publisher of The New York Enterprise Report, a media company that served small and midsize businesses. Recent, an episode featured Max Novak, the founder of Nova Cast, where he talked all about how podcast booking campaigns create value For listeners and for brands. John Jantsch (06:32): Right?

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Hiring America CPA Offshore 64

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Naming a Business. Last spring, Dave Graham , founder of software consulting firm Arizona Bay, learned that a major client, Jumpstart Automotive Media, had been acquired for more than $80 million. Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. Tools & Research. Franchises.

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Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble. VC’s went back to basics, to focus on building companies while their founders worked on building customers.

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Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

TaskRabbit has (people) making over $5,000 a month in San Francisco," says Craig Shapiro, founder of Collaborative Fund, a venture-capital fund specializing in sharing sites. The dot-com boom of early 2000 saw a proliferation of similar anything-at-your-service start-ups. Include name, phone number, city and state for verification.

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San Francisco Technical Review Zimbabwe New York City 105

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Who Uses a Consulting CTO I’m going to focus on the needs of the founders of startup companies: Founders of startups use a consulting CTO when they have business vision but limited knowledge of the technology needed to launch their company. Though after the dotcom collapse of 2000-2001, there are many more than there were!

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

He is the founder of Mirasee, the host of the Business Reimagined Podcast, and the best selling author of multiple books including one we’re going to talk about today, Teach and Grow Rich. ” And that turned into, at its culmination, the $2000 course kind of paradigm. This is John Jantsch, and my guest today is Danny Iny.

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Bandwidth Cost Audience Video 36

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. As a founder, one of the most painful things in the world to hear is criticism of your baby. image source. Forget about your company for a second and think about the companies you do business with….

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Retention Customer Developer Programming 115

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. As a founder, one of the most painful things in the world to hear is criticism of your baby. image source. Forget about your company for a second and think about the companies you do business with….

Retention 112

Retention Developer Customer Programming 112

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. As a founder, one of the most painful things in the world to hear is criticism of your baby. image source. Forget about your company for a second and think about the companies you do business with….

Retention 105

Retention Customer Developer Programming 105

Start Up Blog

APRIL 12, 2012

What was the name of the first web browser with a graphical user interface? Name the first commercially available programmable personal computer? Who was the co-founder of Microsoft with Bill Gates? What was the name of this.com address? Does the NASDAQ have a higher or lower valuation now, than it did in the year 2000?

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Cofounder Valuation Web Naming 67

VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

My own fascination with podcasts began with a warm recommendation from Pablo (founder of Antidote ). their brands are less developed, so most people would struggle to name a show. One of them is Alex Blumberg, founder of Gimlet Media. you need an app that streams podcasts (Apple has one by default). The second level?—?they’re

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Audio Silicon Valley Curation Cofounder 109

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. As a founder, one of the most painful things in the world to hear is criticism of your baby. image source. Forget about your company for a second and think about the companies you do business with….

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Retention Customer Developer Programming 98