Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Rob Biederman, co-founder of HourlyNerd, has a funding story that wouldn’t be out of place in a movie. In case you haven’t heard of the website before, it allows you to register and hire professional consultants with top-tier qualifications, at a fraction of the cost you might otherwise have to pay, and in a fraction of the time.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Exactly three months after its $48 Million funding announcement, Smooth-Stone today detailed its company momentum, including significant new executive hires, new office space and renaming the company. The response from customers and technology partners validates we are onto something big. Naval Nuclear Power Program.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

While we would never impose hiring decisions, we aim to reduce the potential impact of unconscious bias for key C-Level and senior roles within a Company. In the afternoon we had a partner session with a separate facilitator in which we talked more broadly about bias, diversity & inclusion. It takes a village.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2023

And despite not going to University, Ash became a serial tech founder and the first marketing director of the Unicorn Startup Just Eat. Well, you're going to judge it by the team, by the co-founders. And when you're judging it by the co-founders, that's when you have to try and decide, okay, what have they got going for themselves?

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

Feeling motivated by this realization, I connected with my brilliant Co-Founder Amy Yuan, who then built a massive database consisting of reviews, assessments, and scientific research related to skincare. I started my own marketing and communications agency back in 2003. Thanks to Victoria Wieck. #13- Photo Credit: Andrea Siy.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. AngelList also partnered with SecondMarket to create an investment vehicle for these investments. Co-founder Naval Ravikant explains that 18 pilot companies in the program, including Transcriptic, Double Robotics and Tred, received $6.7 → Learn More. Gift Guide.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

20 years ago, the classic startup model was to have young founders start a breakthrough company, then bring in “grey hair” in the form of experienced executives once it was time to scale the business. In other words, Ben asserts that bringing in a professional CEO should be a last resort for a founder. During the dot com era, Yahoo!’s

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

He is the founder and CEO of Stackify. I was that hired gun in some senses. I said in the intro and it’s funny how many founders of companies start companies because they can’t find something or they can’t get something solved, so they just solve it by creating a company. Go check it out. Podcastbookers.com.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

She is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Small Business Trends , an award-winning online publication. Anita Campbell Anita Campbell serves as CEO of Anita Campbell Associates Ltd, a woman-owned consulting firm helping companies and organizations reach the small business market.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 10, 2011

Come back to ducttapemarketing.com/blog starting on Monday and each day the week to find the new content.)

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

Despite not going to university, Ash became a serial tech founder and the first marketing director of a unicorn startup – Just Eat). Well, you're gonna judge it by the team, by the co-founders. And when you're judging it by the co-founders, that's when you have to try and decide, okay, what have they got going for themselves?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

She is also the co-founder, co-owner and CEO of MFE Interactive in addition to being the co-owner and SVP of Marketing for Speedy Incorporation.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Four years later, in May of 2003, they launched Taobao Marketplace, Alibaba’s answer to eBay. Swing is now at over 1,200 school partners and has filled over 115,000 teacher absence days. Instawork (*) is an on-demand staffing app for gig workers (professionals) and hospitality businesses (partners).

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Janine Popick Janine Popick is the CEO and co-founder of VerticalResponse (Inc. Read all five posts in today’s series and come back each day this week for five new posts in this great educational series and another chance to win. 5000 2006-2010), a leading self-service direct marketing provider to over 100,000 small businesses.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. Q&A: Group Commerce Plans Hires, European Growth with $21M Funding. Co-Founder and CEO, Wetpaint. Managing Director, Enterprise Partners. Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation. Our Cities ▾ Boston ›. View More in Boston ›. View More in Detroit ›.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

The search giant’s VP of Corporate Development, along with CEO Larry Page, signs off on the dozens of acquisitions and acqui-hires made every year, large and small. But there’s also the satellite-mapping company Keyhole, which in 2003 became the seed that sprouted Google Maps. Top From Our Partners. Slide.com.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Matt shares his story and give some great insight on hiring the right employees for your company. He began at Gundersen Partners, LLC, then moved to Heidrick and Struggles, where he became a principal in the Global Consumer Practice. In 2003, he founded MJS Executive Search. Want to hire someone? Corporate Partners.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Bryce Roberts , a partner at O?Reilly Chris McCann is the co-founder of StartupDigest , the members-only guide to the tech startup world. Dave argues that instead of providing connections you should let founders do 95% of the work and offer support with operational areas of expertise like design, data and distribution.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

There simply won’t be soft-landings and acqui-hires for all of them. Others have blamed the brutal hiring environment on everyone being able to start a company — whether they should or not — and argued that concentrating resources on fewer ideas would make the Valley a lot stronger. Now it’s glutted.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. In Meebo’s case, for example, I was lucky enough to partner up with Elaine and Sandy. and Google. No legal muck.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

I sat down with my partner and we brainstormed the name for our business. Instead, my producing partner suggester Corner Piece, Because we’re the piece you need to get everything started. I am the Founder of Sonjara, Inc – a woman owned small business in Northern Virginia. Image Credit: Andrew Greer.

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OnlyOnce

MAY 1, 2019

As you may know, the title of this blog, OnlyOnce, comes from a blog post written by my friend and board member Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures entitled You Are Only a First-Time CEO Once , which he wrote back in 2003 or 2004. That inspired me to create a blog for entrepreneurs and leaders. But the company is unusual in many respects.

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OnlyOnce

MAY 1, 2019

As you may know, the title of this blog, OnlyOnce, comes from a blog post written by my friend and board member Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures entitled You Are Only a First-Time CEO Once , which he wrote back in 2003 or 2004. That inspired me to create a blog for entrepreneurs and leaders. But the company is unusual in many respects.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. When I began practicing law I was hired by a firm where billable hours and collected fees were the only considerations for advancement. Soon, I had more work than I could handle, and had to hire another attorney and staff member. Image Credit: Nancy D.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

For more page-turning corporate drama, including the feud between Intermix co-founders and UCLA college buddies Brett Brewer and Brad Greenspan, Nasdaq delisting, proxy contest and lawsuits by Greenspan after he was fired as CEO, see Stealing MySpace by WSJ reporter Julia Angwin. MySpace became its own company, MySpace, Inc., of MySpace, Inc.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Brian Halligan Brian Halligan is CEO & Co-Founder of HubSpot , a marketing software company he co-founded four years ago to help businesses transform the way they market their products by “getting found&# on the internet. Brian Clark Brian Clark is founder of Copyblogger and CEO of Copyblogger Media.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 7, 2011

Derek Sivers, founder of CDBaby, recently stopped by the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast and recounted a story of his now famous package insert. Do you send out automated follow-ups that beg to be ignored?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

Mahan Khalsa Mahan Khalsa is the founder of the Sales Performance Group of FranklinCovey , the creator of the Helping Clients Succeed sales improvement program taught in over 40 countries and 10 different languages. He is currently a founding partner at Ninety Five 5 (Less Nonsense – More Sales).

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

Lisa Barone Lisa Barone is Co-Founder and Chief Branding Officer of Outspoken Media , Inc and writes for the Outspoken Media Blog. She is also the co-founder, co-owner and CEO of MFE Interactive in addition to being the co-owner and SVP of Marketing for Speedy Incorporation. Note: There have been some updates since I published th.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 30, 2011

I had a great conversation recently with Derek Sivers , founder of CDBaby and author of Anything You Want. jepoirrier via Flickr It’s not that the owner’s thinking is flawed, it’s that most of knowledge, mission, vision and basic how to do stuff stays locked up there.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

Keith Ferrazzi Keith Ferrazzi is the author of Never Eat Alone and the founder of the Relationship Masters Academy, an online training program for networking that offers the structure and support to put Keith’s bestselling books into action in your life for unparalleled career success and satisfaction.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2011

Drew Houston, CEO and Founder of Dropbox applied Eric Ries’s Lean Startup concepts and started iterating their product much faster in order to test what customers really wanted, early and often. One of my favorite case studies in the book involves a tool I use everyday – Dropbox.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

She is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Small Business Trends , an award-winning online publication. Tim Berry Tim Berry is the president and founder of Palo Alto Software, founder of bplans.com, and a co-founder of Borland International, author of books and software on business planning, Stanford MBA, father of five, married 41 years.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

Lisa Barone Lisa Barone is Co-Founder and Chief Branding Officer of Outspoken Media , Inc and writes for the Outspoken Media Blog. Read all five posts in today’s series and come back each day this week for five new posts in this great educational series and another chance to win.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Brian Halligan Brian Halligan is CEO & Co-Founder of HubSpot , a marketing software company he co-founded four years ago to help businesses transform the way they market their products by “getting found&# on the internet.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

Tim Berry Tim Berry is the president and founder of Palo Alto Software, founder of bplans.com, and a co-founder of Borland International, author of books and software on business planning, Stanford MBA, father of five, married 41 years. His latest book is The Plan-As-You-Go-Business-Plan.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

Mahan Khalsa Mahan Khalsa is the founder of the Sales Performance Group of FranklinCovey , the creator of the Helping Clients Succeed sales improvement program taught in over 40 countries and 10 different languages. He is currently a founding partner at Ninety Five 5 (Less Nonsense – More Sales).

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