Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. You rarely hear about the owners who took out second mortgages to make payroll or to hire a salesperson.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Hiring an expert or a coach to walk you through this stage can help you minimize the chances of failure although identifying the problem first can be a great way to create a long-lasting strategy. Using this capital , the founders launched and enjoyed exponential growth in their first year, with 10K users and thousands of listings.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 1, 2021

But that was back in 2004 and the trillions of dollars of wealth created since in startups, big tech companies and crypto makes earlier questions of extravagance seem quaint. I never heard about giraffes after Google’s IPO, although reportedly one early engineer did buy a carnival-size ferris wheel. And I’m thrilled for them and their teams.

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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 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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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 of my favorite episodes who should be your first hire, what's your funding plan, Dr. Lisa Cravin shares her top advice from building spotlight oral. Marketing Podcast with Cameron Herold. This is John Jantsch. I need a CEO.

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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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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

Whilst teaching 16-18-year-old college students part-time, I had taken on a Flash website build in mid-2004 for a highly-reputed jewelry company in Bristol, UK, referred to me by a friend, and done a good job, other website opportunities started to come in.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. You rarely hear about the owners who took out second mortgages to make payroll or to hire a salesperson.

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 10, 2014

Sometimes, you need to wait a long time for the chance to invest in an outstanding founder. He’s the co-founder of Urbanspoon , the popular restaurant review site and app. He also co-founded Cubeduel, a site that lets you rank your co-workers and Strangeberry, a digital media startup that was acquired by TiVo in 2004.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. You rarely hear about the owners who took out second mortgages to make payroll or to hire a salesperson.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. and one of the founders of Oblong, John Underkoffler, was an MIT Medialab PHd., And then was hired by Stephen Spielberg for Minority Report. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I So Oblong is here in your backyard as you know in L.A.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2013

Shopify itself was started as an online shop in 2004 selling snowboard equipment out of a garage by its founders. In 2004, we wanted to set up an online store selling snowboarding equipment. “(But) I’m confident our partnership with SingTel will boost the rate in Singapore,” he says.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. You rarely hear about the owners who took out second mortgages to make payroll or to hire a salesperson.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. Co-founder Naval Ravikant explains that 18 pilot companies in the program, including Transcriptic, Double Robotics and Tred, received $6.7 Investors included Founders Fund, 500 Startups and Marc Cuban.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2013

by MaryAnn Bekkedahl, co-founder and president of theSwizzle. The ‘jockey,’ of course, is the founder and leadership team. His view is to hire excellent people, empower them with full accountability and then let them make all the decisions independently, encouraging them to seek input from those around them as they go.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. You rarely hear about the owners who took out second mortgages to make payroll or to hire a salesperson.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2018

by Rachel Strella, founder of Strella Social Media. Some real-life examples of this include: Martha Stewart, whose company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, suffered and never fully recovered after she was found guilty in 2004 of charges related to insider trading.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

One of the earliest and most well-known of the Micro-VC funds was First Round Capital , founded in 2004 by Josh Kopelman , a former entrepreneur who sold Half.com to eBay in 2000. And in addition to helping each other, they also started funding each other , and even helped YC select future batches of founders.

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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. Part of the deal was bringing in a new CEO, Richard Rosenblatt.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. You rarely hear about the owners who took out second mortgages to make payroll or to hire a salesperson.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

As a founder, one of the most painful things in the world to hear is criticism of your baby. Well, did you know Threadless was started with only $1,000 of the founders personal money & Rand was in severe debt when they started Moz? million in 2004 to $6.5 Do you think they even notice when you leave? communication.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

As a founder, one of the most painful things in the world to hear is criticism of your baby. Well, did you know Threadless was started with only $1,000 of the founders personal money & Rand was in severe debt when they started Moz? million in 2004 to $6.5 Do you think they even notice when you leave? communication.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

As a founder, one of the most painful things in the world to hear is criticism of your baby. Well, did you know Threadless was started with only $1,000 of the founders personal money & Rand was in severe debt when they started Moz? million in 2004 to $6.5 Do you think they even notice when you leave? communication.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

As a founder, one of the most painful things in the world to hear is criticism of your baby. Well, did you know Threadless was started with only $1,000 of the founders personal money & Rand was in severe debt when they started Moz? million in 2004 to $6.5 Do you think they even notice when you leave? communication.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. Today, when I talk to startup founders, the most common answer I get to the question "do you talk to your customers?" But the early customers all compared it to MySpace.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

We had scrambled to get a product to market, built our first website, rapidly hired a technology team, raised our seed round of capital ($1.5 The phones rang off the hook (we didn’t even think about hiring somebody to answer them). I sat next to Irwin Jacobs (founder of Qualcomm) on a bus ride. We closed a $16.5

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Scott’s first big foray into industry-changing companies came with CarsDirect, an IdeaLab company where he was the initial founder & CEO. Money to be used for hiring and additional product development. Based in Palo Alto and founded in 2004 by PayPal alumni. Currently has 1.8mm users and adding about 15,000 users/day.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Navigating the Nonfiction Author Journey written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Honorée Corder In today’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, we’re joined by Honorée Corder, an accomplished author, publishing consultant, and the founder of Indy Author University. I like that.

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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 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 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. Read each of the five posts that follow and click our entry form link to match the guest star with their post.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

It was fall 2004, and the presidential election was in full swing. ► 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. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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