Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 26, 2023

He's the founder of JJ Analytics, a company that helps businesses adopt the data-driven way of digital marketing. In 2015, he launched the MeasureSchool YouTube channel to reach out and teach this new way of marketing to others. This is John Jantsch and my guest today is Julian Juenmann.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. Burn rate in case you don’t know is the amount of money a company is either spending (gross) or losing (net) per month. (it

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mashable.com

MARCH 20, 2014

Because there is often a lot at stake for a new company, its wise to ask where you will fit in among founders and first hires — and how you can make a direct impact on the companys success. What are your founders goals? If interviewing with a founder, Id ask what the founder hoped to gain from the venture.

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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. Key Takeaway: The Chief Operating Officer is the second in command to the CEO – they’re the go-to person that should be running the business. Marketing Podcast with Cameron Herold. 3:38] How would you define the job title COO?

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2015

Scott Schreiman is the founder and chief executive officer of Samepage , a division of Kerio Technologies, Inc. Scott joined Kerio in 2005 and has over 18 years of senior management experience in sales, business development, marketing, operations and finance.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

They have totally changed the way you run a VC firm, investing heavily in systems & events for their founders that are pushing the boundaries of the way our industry works. Howard Morgan earned a PhD in Operations Research/Computer Science in 1968. If you read this blog often you'll know that I'm a huge fan of First Round Capital.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2014

Nearly 10 years ago, Excite founder Joe Kraus, now an investor at Google Ventures, declared “there has never been a better time to be an entrepreneur.” As Kraus noticed in 2005, however, things were starting to change. A decade later, Andreessen Horowitz investor Sam Gerstenzang has one-upped Kraus. Hardware was expensive.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

We asked 10 founders to share what they think the future of personalized shopping holds (ecommerce entrepreneurs, listen up!). As brick-and-mortar stores started seeing sales slip, they plunged headfirst into the Internet, thus creating click-and-mortar operations. ©2005-2013 Mashable, Inc. Heres what they had to say: 1.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

To put that timeframe in perspective, here’s a picture of analyst me taken at USV’s first office in 2005, dressed in khakis and a button-down shirt versus a picture of me, a GP at my own firm, over 100 deals later, now on my latest Zoom board call from my couch at home with my junior analyst of about a year and a half. No new investments.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2019

Today, John Fielding is the founder of Array Marketing, formerly known as IDMD, a global retail merchandising service with clients that include Ulta, Chanel, Estee Lauder, Sephora, and more. is a fraud solutions and e-commerce provider founded in 2005; the company was acquired by Mastercard International in 2019. Ethoca Solutions Inc.

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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. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 Oblong, Minority Report, and the rise of Spatial Operating Systems. and one of the founders of Oblong, John Underkoffler, was an MIT Medialab PHd., RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I recently spoke at the Founder Showcase at the request of Adeo Ressi. I said that at the Founder Showcase, too. And for many of these they were (over) funded 7-10 years ago and don’t necessarily all represent great returns for investors or founders. some founders lose their life savings.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 24, 2019

Brant Barton, my co-founder, and I had left Coremetrics to start it together. Believe it or not, there were only three retailers in 2005 that offered customer reviews, the most popular of them being Amazon. this was 2005. The journey for Bazaarvoice was similar?—?it it was completely irrelevant at the beginning. and measurement.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

by Evgeny Glariantov , founder of FREED. As of December 2017, the GIMPS project had reached an aggregate computing power of approximately 320 TeraFLOPS (320 trillion floating-point operations per second). Evgeny Glariantov , the founder of a blockchain project FREED , is an expert on the monetization of game projects.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2016

By the end of 2004 I had brought on two co-founders: John Vars – who is now the Chief Product Office at TaskRabbit, and Steven Reading took over Sales and Revenue. Though I should point out was still doing client work for OneMatchFire until mid-2005 until the business could pay full salaries. TR: This was an easy one for me.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Such was my recent meeting with Seth Sternberg, founder & CEO of Meebo. And I’d recommend them to any talented startup founders out there.&#. Seth raised $100k in angel funding to fuel operations. In 2005, Meebo started connected users across other websites. And there you have it. Not a chance. I totally agree.

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The Startup Lawyer

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Blake is the founder of CoHabitat, a startup community and hacker co-working space that’s become a hub for startup entrepreneurs, developers, and creatives. Dynamo Labs was the first recipient of fbFund, a grant fund operated by the Founders Fund, Accel Partners, and Facebook. Gabriella Draney, Tech Wildcatters.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations. Previously, he was Chief Operating Officer & Strategic Creative at USA GROUP, INC., and before that, Co-founder and Senior Vice-President at Clearview Networks, Inc.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Co-founder & CEO Steve Hafner and the business team are based in Norwalk, CT. 2010 Operating Income: $16 million. round closed Feb 2005. 2010 Net Income: $8 million.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 12, 2011

The co-founders that shook the world Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. How to find a co-founder. Everyone wants to be an entrepreneur at the moment, and resources such as WorkInStartups , Founder2Be and Enternships have sprung up to help people locate co-founders and create or work in startups. Guest post by Paul Higgins*.

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Bates, keynote speaker, communications coach, founder and chief executive officer at Executive Speaking Success, joins Episode 4 of the Profit First Podcast. Bates, keynote speaker, communications coach, founder and chief executive officer at Executive Speaking Success, joins Episode 4 of the Profit First Podcast. Our Guest John K.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 4, 2016

by Stephen Sheinbaum, founder of Bizfi. A business plan is the blueprint for your company’s operation, and overall success. You need the right support system to operate and grow your company. Stephen Sheinbaum founded Bizfi as Merchant Cash and Capital in 2005. Create a game plan. Add the right team members.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

When I started my company in 2005, I spent too many years working so much both IN and ON the business that I burned out. I was doing my own admin, sales and marketing while doing operations (delivering what I was selling). 15- Remind myself of how venture capitalist operate. Thanks to Sudhanshu Ahuja, Impress.ai ! #15-

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SiliconHills

AUGUST 8, 2017

By LAURA LOREK Publisher of Silicon Hills News Heather Hoover, executive vice president of operations at uShip, joined the company in 2005, a year after its founding. Nick Parker, chief technology officer at uShip, and the founders […].

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 23, 2016

The first thing to happen was that the bar for a Series A went up – unsurprising given that startups could now get much further with pre-Series A amounts of capital (2005-2010). That created a gap in market which sub $100m dedicated seed funds (aka micro-VCs) stepped into – there are now over 300 of them (2005-2016).

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Other angel investors and smaller funds also copied this innovation, and many of these new Micro-VC fund managers (like me) came from operational backgrounds at companies like PayPal/eBay, Yahoo, Amazon, or Google, rather than finance backgrounds from investment banking or Wall Street. and no, we didn’t.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Every startup I knew in 2005 (when I started my second company) was using this.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Michael Smith, leader of the Social Innovation team at the Case Foundation , introduced the Foundation as a non-profit started in 1997 by Steve Case (AOL co-founder) and his wife, Jean Case. Case Foundation didn’t have a website until 2005, although founded 1997. 3 specific issues: 1. How we embrace technology for good.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 13, 2017

by Stephen Sheinbaum, founder of Bizfi. You’ve got to take steps to improve your operations and that begins with technology , like incorporating a cloud-based accounting system and social media management tools. Every entrepreneur starts out with dreams of success. Streamline your day-to-day tasks.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 22, 2011

That was the challenge faced by former real estate agent Alex Joseph, co-founder of Nuviva Medical Weight Loss Clinics, now a growing franchise operation based in Florida. “We We didn’t start out the way we ended up,” said Joseph, Nuviva ’s founder. “In

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule.

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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. I look for firms in which some of the partners (my partner) have operational experience and know what it’s like to wake up every day and be an entrepreneur. I think good VC’s really do make a difference.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 27, 2019

From: Brett Hurt Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 10:52 AM To: All Bazaarvoice?—?Internal Hurt Founder and CEO Bazaarvoice, Inc. And then the People Operations team found a better book, Crucial Conversations , which had a training program built into it that we began to use. Thanks, Brett A. Same point?—?but we meet every day.

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