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Launch: The 2-Hour Audio Documentary of a Startup

Software By Rob

I’ve just released a 2-hour audio documentary chronicling the story of building and launching my latest startup, Drip. There is no champagne-popping, no hockey stick growth, and no overnight success. Only a couple years of hard work and uncertainty documented for your listening pleasure. Startups'

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Launch: The 2-Hour Audio Documentary of a Startup

Software By Rob

I’ve just released a 2-hour audio documentary chronicling the story of building and launching my latest startup, Drip. There is no champagne-popping, no hockey stick growth, and no overnight success. Only a couple years of hard work and uncertainty documented for your listening pleasure.

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Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Harvard Business.

Startup Lessons Learned

For a little while, the team can resort to the last defense of entrepreneurs in trouble: the promised hockey-stick. One thing that is often overlooked about the hockey-stick growth shape: its most distinctive characteristic is the long, flat part. Usually, they are delivering only a fraction of the revenue they promised.

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Transcript of Is Podcasting for You?

Duct Tape Marketing

Though I would say based on the numbers that I see it’s not like a hockey stick growth, but the growth in people’s desire to listen to the content and people’s desire to create terrific podcast content has really never been higher. A great microphone is the Audio Technica ATR 2100. John Jantsch: Yeah, yeah.

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Tough Titties: Living Life on Your Own Terms

Duct Tape Marketing

Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast was brought to you by the MarTech Podcast, hosted by my friend Ben Shapiro, is brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals with episodes you can listen to in under 30 minutes.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

This wasn’t very impressive, but we had two things going for us: A hockey stick shaped growth curve. People often forget the most important part of the hockey stick: the long flat part. For example, I’ve talked a few times about how IMVU raised its first venture round with monthly revenues of around $10,000.

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Lessons Learned: A hierarchy of pitches

Startup Lessons Learned

Most important slide: hockey stick Micro-scale results Key questions: who is the customer, and how do you know? Most important slide: valuation Promising results Key questions: can you monetize that traffic? (or or drive traffic to that profitable destination?) do you know why youve achieved those results?