Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2011

While the word lean might conjure up notions of cheap, it’s really about taking a scientific approach to innovating, measuring and responding in ways that stop companies from wasting time and money. The basis of the concept, as applied to startups, comes from the Lean manufacturing world popularized by Toyota.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

The idea was right but the timing was early and required a pivot into being a software company. In 2003 one of their first investments was Qiigo, Mike Yavondite’s company. The in invest in IT (Software + Internet + Healthcare). How did you get into VC? (9:30 9:30 – 11:30). So it is a combination of markets and people.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Gaming is adding new layers – you don’t have to play to participate anymore but you can also just watch and ”lean back” or “experience” it yourself at the Void. Second Life has been around since 2003, has over 30m registered users of which about 500k are active monthly. This is not new either.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. Last week, we hosted a webcast conversation, Lean Startup for Growing Companies , with Eric Ries, Wyatt Jenkins of Shutterstock, and Ari Gesher of Palantir. Wyatt and Ari will both be speaking at The Lean Startup Conference in December.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 23, 2016

My husband Bob became a home inspector in 2003, after a long career in IT. The working name during prototyping for our hiring software was Higher Stack. 10 – Running a Lean Business. Having a brand behind a strong title can make all the difference in the world. #1 1 – A Personal Touch. Image Credit : Welmoed Sisson.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 9, 2011

Image Tom BKK via Flickr Most business owners lean toward the negative side of things and view this question as a warning that their suppliers, staff and customers are trying to take advantage of them. What was your first thought when you read this title? Business owners and marketers don’t necessarily need.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 21, 2011

While most businesses use a marketing model that tends to lean heavy on the desire to go from know us to buy from us, any business that fills each of these seven touchpoints will be well on their way to finding and keeping customers that become part of the lead generation and conversion team. .

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 12, 2011

Creating Customer Bliss Accelerate Your Startup The Trend Towards Lean Startups Are You Making Evil Plans? You can listen to the show by subscribing the feed in iTunes or a variety of other free services such as Google Listen (Use this RSS feed ) or you can buy the Duct Tape Marketing iPhone app. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2011

The Trend Towards Lean Startups How to Get an MBA for Less Than $20 Has Social Media Changed Customer Service? You can listen to the show by subscribing the feed in iTunes or a variety of other free services such as Google Listen (Use this RSS feed ) or you can buy the Duct Tape Marketing iPhone app. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

Ann will be speaking at this year’s Lean Startup Conference in October about all of this and more. The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. I also knew that there was massive opensource software that was available. I've been in venture now twice.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

He is a self-taught software engineer and technologist. Founded in 2003, ActiveCampaign helps small teams power big businesses with the must have platform for intelligent marketing automation. So you've recently leaned into positioning, obviously marketing automation, CRM still, but small teams powering big businesses.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2010

(I am often asked to explain how to apply Lean Startup approaches to domains beyond software. On the extreme opposite end are rapid iteration businesses like software or fashion. Thus, more and more industries are starting to look like the software business. In order to answer, I have taken to drawing a two-axis diagram.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Incremental and proportional software complexity. Even though I had done it before, I had never heard the term sharding before joining Google (early 2003) so I always thought the term originated there. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game is a book by Michael Lewis, published in 2003. Obama’s own campaign used Moneyball and Lean Startup strategies to win the ultra high stakes Presidential Election. Good design is problem solving.”. – The Art & Science of Web Design by Jeffrey Veen. What’s Moneyball? A ton of stuff.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

UserTesting.com is one of the better-known services that help companies run usability tests, and there are also many companies that specialize in testing how usable software or a site is. The Software Usability Research Laboratory (SURL) at Wichita State University ran a study that examined the traits people associate with varying fonts.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

There’s an uglier side to all this business that is making it hard for a lot of folks to get psyched by articles like this anymore, even though its right on the money… Joe Johnson Is software the only kind of startup that is interesting to anyone anymore? As Seth said, the first meebo idea he came up with was in 2003.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Zucker, a veteran news executive, will succeed Jim Walton, who has had the job since 2003. The networking company will close the deal early next year with Cariden Bay, which specializes in software for planning, designing and engineering computer networks. Why Oracle is not buying HP: It’s still about the software to Larry.

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