Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Amanda Dixon found it difficult to find an M&A advisor who understood that landscape when she went to sell her own business. Since 2015, her company, Barney, has guided over 150 media, marketing & tech companies through acquisitions. Are they all SMBs small businesses or do you have enterprise really big clients?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2016

Likewise, those who feel compelled to keep up with the popular media will spend most of their time courting investors. Business terms are negotiable, but new entrepreneurs with plenty of cash don’t bother to ask. Choose a business model to optimize your revenue flow and timing.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

The following interview by Steven Loeb was published in Vator.tv on 5 September 2015 and is reproduced below in its entirety. 2) New market (less common form, examples are Lyft and eShares) and 3) New business model (least common, non-K9 portfolio examples are PriceLine and SolarCity). Frighteningly Early.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

According to the IAB , US digital advertising revenues grew 19% from H1 2015 to H1 2016. As you can see in the embedded tweet below Jason Kint analysed Google and Facebook revenues in the context of this market and found that revenues for all the other digital ad players went down over the last year.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 13, 2016

Looking back at 2015, the standout theme in the VC/startup ecosystem was unicorn hunting. We started the year enraptured by the “Age of Unicorns” with this cover of Fortune in January 2015 : Illustration: Jeremy Enecio. Was this simply a shift in sentiment among the tech & business media? What happened?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 8, 2015

We just love sharing articles about fonts, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! Small business Congress-watch: Some Pending Bills (and Why They Matter) | @crowdSPRING Blog – bit.ly/1DPsePt. – buff.ly/1EY9ktL.

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The Apple driven smartphone revolution has taken attention from the open web where Google is strong to apps, the Facebook inspired social media revolution has taken traffic from the open web to closed ecosystems which Google can’t access, and they are haemorrhaging search volume to Amazon.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Image via Flickr by Side Wages Some entrepreneurs forget that they need an innovative business model along with an innovative solution to have a successful startup. Inventors alone, or business gurus alone, generally fail. Technologists forget that investors are buying a chunk of the business, not the product.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

There’s a lot of questions about what do you actually need in terms of information, if you’re going to do your forecasting, and how does one put together a revenue forecast if you’ve never started a business or your business is brand new. You have visits that you assume from clicks through social media.

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Up and Running

APRIL 11, 2016

While traditional business models provide a more regular income, in the real estate world, it might be three months before you get paid—and it could even be longer. For Morgan Franklin, a real estate agent with United Real Estate , the secret ingredients were video and an active social media presence. “I

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

For this reason, we’ve partnered with Guild members who have experience across different kinds of customers, business models, and distribution channels. Fareed Mosavat is the product lead for Upgrades and Expansion at Slack, focused on revenue growth for Slack’s small business customers. Back to Top). Back to Top).

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

If the elements of your business aren't expertly developed and aligned, even the best dream will be in jeopardy. Such failures ignore the essential business elements investors look for before committing to a startup. Validated pricing and a sufficient revenue stream. Smart startups have these in place early.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 13, 2020

Our business is based on content marketing and digital media, which has allowed for our success to flourish. I started Mobile Home Friend, LLC with my son back in 2015. A few months later, I went on a five-day social media detox, which I had (ironically) discovered online. Thanks to Matthew Myre, Berri Properties ! #4-

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

As of November 2015, there were 4,144 breweries in the U.S.—more But, the good news is, if all these people could start a brewery, then you can too—as long as you know what you’re getting into and have a solid business plan for your brewery. In 2015, Ninkasi brewed 105,000 barrels. Do they have access to contingency capital?

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In fact, SaaS industry revenue is projected to grow from $49 billion in 2015 to $67 billion in 2018, a compound annual growth rate of approximately eight percent. The one-page pitch format is also more suitable for SaaS businesses that are constantly testing new ideas. The business model.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 19, 2016

That allowed to launch our product in September 2015. I eventually recruited my wife Evelyn to quit her full-time job and join me at Sunny Days and since then we now serve 200 clients, maintain nearly 250 employees and generate about $5 million in annual revenue in just five years. Thanks to Pablo Borquez Schwarzbeck, ProducePay. #4

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Austin Startup

MAY 31, 2017

I expressed my chagrin over a year ago about the unambiguously anti-Uber/Lyft bias on the part of Austin’s media outlets — and note that I generally think “liberal media bias” is as fictitious a concept as “voter fraud” — as well as their failure to cover numerous important aspects of the broader story, as noted above.

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Transformify

JUNE 6, 2019

Back in 2015 when Transformify was founded, it was decided that the company would be a 100% remote and would provide equal job opportunities to everyone regardless of gender, location, race or personal situation thus creating jobs for people in need or those living in high unemployment areas. Respect.

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thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 25, 2015

While banks continue to increase their fees to offset declining revenue from other businesses, millenials are being hit with high costs to maintain accounts – if they are banked. According to a study by Viacom Media, 71% of millenials said they would rather visit the dentist than hear what banks have to say.

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thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 25, 2015

While banks continue to increase their fees to offset declining revenue from other businesses, millenials are being hit with high costs to maintain accounts – if they are banked. According to a study by Viacom Media, 71% of millenials said they would rather visit the dentist than hear what banks have to say.

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Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

Yesterday I was having a discussion with one of our executives on the strength of network effects inherent in the data.world business model. This led to a far ranging strategic discussion that got us both really excited about the huge potential of our business. This lesson was first shared at Lucky7 on January 15, 2015.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Every website in the world has a unique business strategy. Is Getty really competing with these sites, given its business model? Or is this a gap in their business approach they should fix in some other way? It is 2015. Even direct competitors like Expedia and, say, Orbitz. Is it someone else?

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