Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 21, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Only a handful of cities are currently live.) Business owners and marketers don’t necessarily need.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

You’d think that no one could recreate a product so sophisticated and advanced as space rockets, right? He was swiftly followed by Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic in 2004. With enough resources, products can always be copied. It’s tough to compete on product alone and you’re likely to see diminishing returns.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2011

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Small Business 60

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 9, 2011

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Social Media 59

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2011

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Small Business 72

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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 we are just starting our first year in Seattle.”…” Of the Boulder companies there have been 41 companies that have gone through the Boulder program and there is some mortality…” “I guess it’s 5 or 6 that have failed. On the Startup Visa Program.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 10, 2011

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Small Business 59

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

.&# I took it to mean, “making decisions with small amounts of money (pennies) that end up making bad sense for affecting larger amounts of money (pounds, as in Great British Pounds).&# I thought of it as people who cut corners on small costs but paid dearly in terms of lost productivity on expensive staff. I Love Scrappy.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

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Marketing 53

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2014

Voices.com , an online marketplace that matches voice actors with advertising agencies and TV and radio stations, began in 2004 as an idea scribbled down on a napkin by newlyweds David and Stephanie Ciccarelli. See if you even have a market that wants your product—that will PAY for your product!”. Write it down on a napkin.

Detroit 156

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

As much as it opens you up to negative feedback, including the exit survey can provide you with extra insight as to how you can improve your product, your service, or overall offer. Phase 2 – Develop The Product, Site or New Offers Based On Feedback From Existing Customers. million in 2004 to $6.5

Retention 115

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

As much as it opens you up to negative feedback, including the exit survey can provide you with extra insight as to how you can improve your product, your service, or overall offer. Phase 2 – Develop The Product, Site or New Offers Based On Feedback From Existing Customers. million in 2004 to $6.5

Retention 112

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

After former CEO Steve Jobs departed the business in 1985, Apple entered a ten-year downward spiral as competitors' lower-priced products notably Microsoft Windows, dominated the personal computer market. He speculated that upwardly mobile college graduates could be interested in a product or service that was superior to 7-11.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

As much as it opens you up to negative feedback, including the exit survey can provide you with extra insight as to how you can improve your product, your service, or overall offer. Phase 2 – Develop The Product, Site or New Offers Based On Feedback From Existing Customers. million in 2004 to $6.5

Retention 105

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

While foreign entrepreneurs wait for the Startup Visa to become a reality so they can go launch their startups in the US, France has quietly had a similar program in place for some time. YEI is essentially the same as the JEI program, and winners of the competition can come to France and enjoy the same benefits as startups with JEI status.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2019

Our industry’s biggest challenge is to create a production method for meat that’s substantially less expensive than the closest comparable system?—?the the biopharma industry, which sells very expensive products. I lived in Austin from 2004 to 2016, and attended SXSW every year. Why is this important? or recipes?—?to

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). conference happened at the end of 2004). Yes… he was a very successful PayPal exec and previously co-founder & VP Product of SocialNet. Not long after the product launch we began the initial conversations with VCs for a Series A round. link] leehower.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

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Small Business 41

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

As much as it opens you up to negative feedback, including the exit survey can provide you with extra insight as to how you can improve your product, your service, or overall offer. Phase 2 – Develop The Product, Site or New Offers Based On Feedback From Existing Customers. million in 2004 to $6.5

Retention 98

Retention Customer Developer Programming 98

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Entrepreneurs who are considering starting their businesses might want to start by looking at this list of qualifications/requirements: The entrepreneur must have an idea for a product or service and understands how to make it happen. Increased Productivity. What Has Changed Over the Past Ten Years?

Startup 143

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Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

We rode the bubble wave to a successful outcome in 2000 , and after moving away for a few years which included a stint at business school , I returned back to Boston in 2004, and it felt like the web entrepreneurial community had almost entirely scattered after the crash. Today the landscape is very different from 2004.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Thats the conclusion Ive come to after watching tons of online products fail for a complete lack of customers. Our goal is to find out whether customers are interested in your product by offering to give (or even sell) it to them, and then failing to deliver on that promise. Nothing made any difference.

Demand 167

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 24, 2019

TorFX was founded in 2004. Moreover, they also have a TorFX Online program that allows you to move your money any time of the day, monitors your transfer history, and configures rate alerts. World First began in 2004 with its founders’ desire to give customers an alternative to big banks when it comes to money transfers.

Somalia 86

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

In 2004 I funded IMVU, a startup by Will Harvey and Eric Ries. Eric’s insight was that traditional product management and Waterfall development should be replaced by Agile Development. ARPA-E joined the program this year, and in the fall we’ll teach a Life Science version of the class at UCSF.

Lean 292

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

That is- if its in production, its “dead&#. When a commentator says Technology A is dead, they generally just mean its not an Apple or Google product. Lets look at RabbitMQ for example – which though written in Erlang was acquired by SpringSource as a messaging engine to underpin a Java-based programming model.

Java 43

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

That is- if its in production, its “dead&#. When a commentator says Technology A is dead, they generally just mean its not an Apple or Google product. Lets look at RabbitMQ for example – which though written in Erlang was acquired by SpringSource as a messaging engine to underpin a Java-based programming model.

Java 43

Java Demand Web Framework 43

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 29, 2015

I was seduced by Microsoft’s Solution Provider program into thinking that Microsoft had the long-term interest of Feld Technologies (and then subsequent companies that I invested in, including ePartners, Gold Systems, and NewsGator) at heart. I used to think that these large companies had a clear view on how to help small companies.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 17, 2010

The memories I have of Joel on Software , especially from 2001-2004, run deep. I discovered his articles two or three years ago and his point of view set me straight on a couple of things in development and ways of approaching problems in real world of programming. Surely you’ve heard the news by now.

Software Review 39

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2010

Berkeley’s Haas Business School since the fall of 2004 and in a joint MBA with Columbia since 2005. Back in 2004, Jerry Engel the head of the Entreprenuership program at Haas Business School at U.C. While the Customer Development class was cutting edge theory in 2004, by 2009 the class was getting stale. Four Steps.

Customer Development 242

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

In the very early days, the trick is to find anyone at all who can understand you when you are talking about your product. In our first year at IMVU, we thought we were building a 3D avatar chat product. As product people, we thought of competition in terms of features. that we learned different. for Harvard Business Revie.

San Francisco 131

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 4, 2011

One the factors I like to hammer home to people when they create any kind of information, whether it’s blog or website content, membership content, or any kind of paid info product, is not to underestimate how much of your audience truly are beginners. Everyone starts as a beginner. All these lessons can be applied to your situation.

Sales 70

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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 Leena Rao is currently a Senior Editor for TechCrunch.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 26, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! I’ll add my thoughts to the process of steps that make this a nice case study. And what's this?

Social Media 76

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2018

they encouraged me to continue the concept and create a math learning program, known as NumbersAlive! I chose not to be as specific as to call it Bear in Mind Productions because I do so much more than just produce videos. I started with words that captured the essence of the product, tried their hindi, latin and greek words.

Naming 102

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

In 2004 I funded IMVU, a startup by Will Harvey and Eric Ries. Eric’s insight was that traditional product management and Waterfall development should be replaced by Agile Development. ARPA-E joined the program this year, and in the fall we’ll teach a Life Science version of the class at UCSF.

Lean 184

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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. Why bother with all the extra costs, people, programs, etc? Isn’t this just a lack of focus?

Silicon Valley 74

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