Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

He is the co-founder of Boast.ai, where he leveraged the Community-Led Growth model to bootstrap the company. where he leveraged a community-led growth model to bootstrap the company. Then another time was when we were bootstrapping both. They created the customer success community a category. We were expecting twins.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Each part of the program is organized around one phase of the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop and begins with a keynote address from a heavy hitter: Steve Blank on Customer Development, Randy Komisar on "Getting to Plan B" and - a third person, not-yet-announced-but-extremely-cool-trust-me. Were in pursuit of the truth, not orthodoxy.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

We can’t wait for customers to use the product for 12–18 months and do customer interviews or look at purchase cohorts. he promised me he’d drop Corp Dev knowledge), who along with Aditi Maliwal (runs our FinTech practice) will be based in San Francisco. It’s just now that we’re Seed Investors. Seksom Suriyapa ?—?he

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Ash Maurya is the founder of WiredReach , a bootstrapped startup that he has been running for seven years. Recently, he was bitten by the lean startup bug and has started writing about his experiences attempting to apply lean startup and customer development principles. On the one hand, this is the ultimate in customer responsiveness.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

That’s because the model is based on assumptions about customers that are totally unproven. If we already knew who the customer was, how they would behave, how much they would pay, and how to reach them, this wouldn’t be a disruptive innovation. The solution is to change our focus from outputs to inputs. If it costs $0.10

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Take a look: This full-day Master Class focuses on how to build a startup from the ground up to focus on customers, markets, and speed of iteration. Im working on a future post where Ill share the details of how I used customer development to shape both the content and packaging of this event, so look for that soon. Cash is tight.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 5, 2017

He has built countless businesses that challenge the established status quo, bring value and service to customers, and a smile to all. Not only have they had to build a product that satisfies suppliers and delights customers they have also had to fight political battles at local, state, and federal, and international levels.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

What if your company is concerned that emerging customer pressure and local laws will make disposable razors difficult, if not impossible, to sell in the U.S. If so, will customers be interested in the new ideas and able to incorporate those products into their daily routines? in ten years? Now you may be facing several kinds of risk.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

That process involves rapid hypothesis testing, validated learning about customers , and a disciplined approach to product development. Truth: The Lean Startup methodology applies to all companies that face uncertainty about what customers will want. Myth: Lean Startups are small bootstrapped startups.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Pitch Night in San Francisco. Note to self, this event is not for alpha products with no customers. The business model for residential solar panel company: contract with customer, local rebates, and tax benefits. Last week, I attended the Annual Women 2.0 Check out the twitter feed from the event.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

JULY 18, 2011

Tip: If you want to go into a market where you are unsure, bootstrap to get a sense of whether there’s a massive opportunity. Tip: Lock in enterprise customers incrementally, if you stretch too far then you just pull back, when you start doing custom work or bend from your core values, that’s your litmus test.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Pitch Night in San Francisco. Note to self, this event is not for alpha products with no customers. The business model for residential solar panel company: contract with customer, local rebates, and tax benefits. Last week, I attended the Annual Women 2.0 Check out the twitter feed from the event.

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CTO Hire Cofounder Fractional CTO San Francisco 40

techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Software Engineer—PHP—Energy Software for the Smart Grid @ Agentis Energy (Elmhurst, IL) Sr.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 23, 2016

But I knew how to make meetings productive, I knew how to facilitate meetings, and I was smart enough to put our domain expert in the room with the domain expert from the customer. You can bootstrap it. You can learn from your customers. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 23, 2016

But I knew how to make meetings productive, I knew how to facilitate meetings, and I was smart enough to put our domain expert in the room with the domain expert from the customer. You can bootstrap it. You can learn from your customers. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2013

AdEspresso is currently bootstrapped and so as a team we thought long and hard about if we should attend TC Disrupt or not. In fact, to date we have participated in many startup showcase type events including: Founder Showcase in San Francisco. The answer was: an arm and a leg. Did I mention we’re based in Milan, Italy?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

But travel, particularly for early-stage and bootstrapped entrepreneurs who are physically far away, can be hard to swing. We’re interested not only in bringing folks to San Francisco, but also in helping Lean Startup communities take root beyond Silicon Valley. Didn''t Steve Jobs say that customers don''t know what they want.?

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

500|5000 The 2010 Inc. 500|5000 List The 2010 Top Lists Inc. 500|5000 Conference Honorees Resources Press Apply 2011 ); Topics > Leadership and Managing > Human Resources > Recruiting and Hiring Employees > How to Attract Talent to Your Start-Up At a start-up, you need employees that are in it for the long haul and fit your unique culture.

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Intellectual Property Los Angeles San Francisco New York 55

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Introducing the Lean Startup Cohort subscription program Over the past few months, I have been engaged in another customer discovery exercise with passionate early adopters of the lean startup methodology. I am now ready to move into the customer validation phase.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

This curriculum is based on the various questions entrepreneurs have asked me over these 64 sessions, spanning financing, positioning, customer acquisition, marketing, sales, channel, and various other early stage, startup-related issues. John already has a couple of customers, and needs about 50 customers to get to $1M in annual revenue.

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Up and Running

JULY 23, 2018

Since the company was bootstrapped, they spent frugally, lived without any salary for months, and worked hard to make it a success. The restaurant’s main target customers had always been the people who used the highway. The other, just out of college, had taken money from his family. And this is not the only example.

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Up and Running

MARCH 24, 2015

While the average American rent is $950, rental rates in major urban areas like New York City ($3,836) or San Francisco ($3,469) may be more helpful figures to go by so that you have enough money to give your startup business a real run for its money. You’ll also want to customize your look through WordPress themes or graphic design.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

AWS Marketplace Startup Program – the ‘app store’ for B2B startups who are interested to sell their product to AWS customers. AWS Connections – A program that facilitates relationships between AWS enterprise customers and startups to solve enterprises’ needs and, in turn, help to grow startups. Support Programs.

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Technical Review Startup Venture Capital Incubator 174

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Box Accelerator is available today, at no cost, for all Box business and enterprise customers. At the time, Box was starting to move away from a focus on customers and was starting to pay more attention to small and medium businesses, an area of expertise where Levin could advise. Check out the video for more details.

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View from Seed

MARCH 22, 2016

And don’t pitch a Boston newspaper on your San Francisco startup. Although bootstrapping your startup is difficult, that in and of itself is not unique. That means avoiding a pitch to a software-centric publication about your biotech startup. Don’t pitch the real estate reporter on an app that has nothing to with housing.

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Seed Stage San Francisco Startup CTO Hire 120

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

Transcript Automated transcription services provided by: Dan Bowen: My name is Dan Bowen, and I’m up in the wine country in Healdsburg, California north of San Francisco, and the company name is SyncBloc, S-Y-N-C-B-L-O-C. I bootstrapped it on my own. Jason: SyncBloc. Well I know what Sync is, but Bloc. 99%, maybe 99.8%

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2013

We’re holding it December 9 – 11 in San Francisco, with sessions at the Nob Hill Masonic Center and the Fairmont Hotel, a half-block away. and we are NOT looking for talks about how to bootstrap or run a business on the cheap. * This post was written by Sarah Milstein, co-host of The Lean Startup Conference.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

Startup life is all about bootstrapping, but you need a place to work, right? “There’s simply no budget for [an office], as I bootstrap the company,&# says Paul Molluzzo, founder of Baby Goes Mobile , a web app that lets parents create a private baby book they can view and update from their mobile phones.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

We’ve continued bootstrapping since then — today we are a $2.5 million+ company, with 60+ team members doing tours in NYC, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington DC and Los Angeles.”. We wanted our customers to have the opportunity to learn exactly how our products are made and with what ingredients.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2016

You have to be 1000% dedicated to the mission and the problem you’re trying to solve and always be customer focused, because it is a long ride. — She explains why they turned to Kickstarter and what happened with their campaign: We kept hearing from investors, “Who are your customers? Who’s invested?”

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

John Jantsch: Now, obviously nobody’s buying or if people are buying and saying it doesn’t work, that gives you the feedback you need, but do you have any ways that you intentionally stay close enough to customers to understand that? It’s your go-to-market strategy. Software developers don’t have telephones.

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www.inc.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

500|5000 The 2010 Inc. 500|5000 List The 2010 Top Lists Inc. 500|5000 Conference Honorees Resources Press Apply 2011 ); Topics > Leadership and Managing > Human Resources > Job Descriptions > How to Hire a CTO When its time to add a technologist to your slate of executives, what are the best practices to follow?

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Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire Hiring 42

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2016

You have to be 1000% dedicated to the mission and the problem you’re trying to solve and always be customer focused, because it is a long ride. — She explains why they turned to Kickstarter and what happened with their campaign: We kept hearing from investors, “Who are your customers? Who’s invested?”

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

We are committed to delivering affordable and convenient bookings to our customers anywhere in Nigeria. A mutual friend connected me in San Francisco with Ori in New York. We were bootstrapping the company’s funding, so we could not afford to hire a firm to help us come up with a company name. 19 – A True Measure.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

They threw a pizza party that first night, they've now raised millions of dollars and have thrown hundreds of thousands more, not just in support of frontline workers, but in support of restaurants who, as everyone knows, are struggling in these times with a dramatic decline in revenue, in customers. Not only in San Francisco, but nationwide.

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San Francisco Founder Community Software Review 68

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 24, 2020

My wife and our one-year-old Vizsla dog, Neo, are holed up in Dolores Heights in San Francisco. Zoom would go from 10 million to 300 million customers overnight. What's your quarantine setup like? Hannu Rajaniemi : I feel very lucky and grateful, Eric. We have a garden so we have sunlight and access to the outdoors.

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Founder Technical Review Leadership Software Review 60

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

but most are coalescing around the Palo Alto – San Mateo – San Francisco center of the universe. So originally the customer was the Department of Defense. It was the first customer for the computer. Some of these next big startups are in L.A., But I would say the market is schizophrenic.

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