Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Practical Strategies For Starting A Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Steve Hoffman. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Steve Hoffman, also known as Captain Hoff. More About Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network: Learn more here.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2017

My entrepreneurial ways can be traced to when I was 17 and decided to go into business with a friend, operating a table at a flea market. My father was laid off work and decided to join me on the Philadelphia and New Jersey flea market circuit. A year later we were opening up a hardware store.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Then he'll describe his cutting-edge platform — cloud-based, scalable, distributed version control, continuous integration, one-click-deploy. WhenBusy is a bootstrapped startup that lets people schedule meetings with you in currently-available time-slots without you having to share your calendar [disclosure: I'm an advisor].

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

But, his tenacity is impresive: he pulled himself back up by the bootstraps, and founded Nextiva which today generates more than $100M ARR. But, with a great team and flexibility in addressing the niche markets we had a position in, we succeeded. It usually takes spirits brands 5 years to achieve that kind of distribution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Products too expensive for the market won’t succeed, and prices too low will leave you exposed. Match with competitor prices and market demographics. This is not just a product pitch, but must include all elements of your pricing, marketing, distribution and maintenance. Talk to industry experts and investors.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

He says that one is too lonely, two is good and three is a great number if they can combine their skills to cover design, development and distribution. The market just isn't that efficient to truly determine the best. He believes that equity need not be distributed equally, as long as everyone involved is happy with their arrangement.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2017

As busy as we are, we also need to keep up with small business and marketing trends — trends that change quickly. Google Primer, a free app from Google, has developed a number of small business and marketing lessons — each of which you can complete in a manageable five minutes.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 21, 2010

At today's roundtable, we had some very interesting discussions on creative bootstrapping. First up today was Justin Beck with PerBlue , a mobile and social gaming company that makes the iPhone and Android game Parallel Kingdom that has been in the market for a couple of years. Read Creative Bootstrapping to a $350 Million Exit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2021

Products too expensive for the market won’t succeed, and prices too low will leave you exposed. Match with competitor prices and market demographics. This is not just a product pitch, but must include all elements of your pricing, marketing, distribution and maintenance. Talk to industry experts and investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2018

Even if you are funding the project yourself (bootstrapping), you should be asking yourself the same question before you have burned all your resources. We simply hadn’t tested the price sensitivity in the market segment and geography that needed the features we offered. Marketing is everything these days.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 14, 2021

Security: Bitcoin is the world’s largest supercomputer powered by global excess energy markets. I recommend reading Bitcoin for the Open Minded Skeptic by Paradigm’s Matt Huang to better understand Bitcoin’s product market fit as a global SoV. Below are current market cap estimates for competing SoV products. blockchain.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

However, if you are to launch and gain traction with your startup successfully, you will need more than a fancy business plan; you will need actionable ideas on how to handle important aspects of your business such as production, marketing, and distribution. Here are seven practical tips on how to jumpstart your startup: 1.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

As I said to an entrepreneur from Hong Kong at a previous roundtable: whether you are building a startup in Silicon Valley or Timbuktu, the methodology of bringing a product or service to market is not that much different. He needs to bootstrap it to a certain level, and following the 1M/1M methodology would be a good start.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

MAY 14, 2010

The panel consisted of a CEO of a travel guide app for the iPad, a bootstrap developer of many iPhone apps and an iPad app, and a marketing person from a Shazam-competitor app. innovate, distribute, monetize. There were about 50-60 people in attendance, of which I knew about 4-5 people. What worked for them?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2016

Should you rush to market with a minimal viable product (MVP) and risk the cycle of failing, pivoting, and then starting again? Having these estimates in hand will help you decide if you can bootstrap your business or if you will need to raise funding. How will you price your product (share of value, cost-plus, market pricing)?

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Technology versus market risk in angel investments.  One of his points is that angels tend to lose money because they take on companies with high market risk and low technical risk. the really hard technical risk of failsafe computing in the 70s had been retired), the market took off. Think "Porter's Five Forces." 

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

At today's roundtable we had some intensive discussions around market sizing and its impact on financing. You have heard, I am sure, that venture capitalists only invest in very large market opportunities - $500 million to $1 billion. I asked him several times what exactly is his TAM (Total Available Market). 30 million market?

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Bootstrapped startup Omnisend carved out a $19 million niche in an already saturated vertical. With a tactical understanding of two different marketing strategies: demand generation and lead generation. Lead generation marketers capitalize on the interest demand generation creates. Demand generation is about creating demand.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2015

Even if you are bootstrapping your business, and you are the only investor, you should be asking yourself the same question. Here are some basic principles from my own experience that will improve your odds and keep you on the right track: Recognize that you are not the market. Marketing is everything these days.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Whether a brand new bootstrapped startup or corporate giant, your altitude, sustainability, and traction has everything to do with your team. You can try to out-market your competition. Distribution & Customers. Bigger companies need a great story to sell their investors, potential acquirers and customers, and the markets.

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Mucker Lab

JANUARY 1, 2014

VC’s start investing in technology-enabled “offline” businesses (distribution, services etc) – most of whom would never have gotten venture money 3 years ago. Google finally fixes the problem with mobile (discovery, search, distribution, tracking, monetization, a/b testing) and races ahead while Apple waxes nostalgically for 2010.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

During that boom, launching a startup was easy, if for a brief moment in time, when capturing the interest of a venture capitalist was a simple as presenting a new idea, and bootstrapping a startup was a realistic option. The biggest entrepreneurial opportunity of the decade. Regulatory.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Crowdfunding works well because you distribute the risks of failure among the hundreds of customers who are interested in your product. Alternately, if your business does not have a lot of capital expenditure, you could also look at bootstrapping your business and channeling money from your own business into funding your growth.

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Mucker Lab

JANUARY 1, 2014

VC’s accelerate investments in “internet of things” except sometime in Q4, wake up and realize it’s no different than “consumer electronics” – and that we still need to innovate around the manufacturing infrastructure, distribution economics, and consumer liability of the consumer goods business to really make this a venture fundable category.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 23, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Helpful insight for bootstrapping entrepreneurs … how we built besnappy for 317000 – crowdspring.co/1o7tpX4. 15 Free Bootstrap Admin Themes – crowdspring.co/1jB1FYK.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2015

The right investor will have specific feedback on pricing models, distribution and market positioning to improve scalability. Even today, more than 90 percent of new businesses are bootstrapped. Use initial feedback wisely to improve your case. Investors are buying your business, not your product.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 31, 2016

It’s much lower cost, meaning it’s possible to bootstrap your way up. You also get to be closer to family – and if you live in the right location, closer to your market too. Let’s take a look: Start Your Own Green Marketing Consultant. Step up the green marketing consultants.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Market Math. If you only sell to half of the customers in your physical market, how many non-buyers have you called on?  If you are using a sales force making customer visits, how much behavior is driven by territory size and quotas as opposed to market coverage?  Market math is one important ingredient. 

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 19, 2012

My company is profitable, and has been from day one. – every high-tech bootstrapped founder I know what you really mean. mo for the S3 storage for web app uploads, plus $0.072/mo of S3 storage to back up the Pat Benatar mp3s.

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Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2018

Every business needs to adapt to emerging market trends, and your health startup is no exception to this rule. In fact, startups have to stay one step ahead of the changing market conditions. Unfortunately, the healthcare industry is one of the most complicated, with tons of health regulations, licenses, rules, and marketing gimmicks.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The Story Of A Young Entrepreneur Building A Better World With A Nonprofit written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Camden Francis In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Camden Francis. And it's not always about marketing. Great episode.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

There are times when small and slow is the right strategy for a specific market opportunity. Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Whatever background they have is more suited to IT consulting, and I suggested that they become a value-added-reseller of a major card technology vendor and represent them in the South Asian market. Distribution Channel for Product Companies. why not become a retailer of the same basket of products that he wants to distribute?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. Over time, they have found a formula for acquiring, qualifying, and selling customers in the market segments they have targeted. What’s the total available market?

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

But while you are small and lean, take advantage of everyone skills; if someone on your team is a great writer, have them take charge of your press releases and marketing content. Business/Marketer – Your business won’t go very far if no one on the team is good at talking about it. Find your forward and your point guard.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

You have heard, I am sure, that venture capitalists only invest in very large market opportunities - $500 million to $1 billion. But there are others - many others - who are looking for smaller opportunities, playing in the sweet spot of $50-$100 million market opportunities. Is that a $20 million market? $30 30 million market?

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

You have heard, I am sure, that venture capitalists only invest in very large market opportunities - $500 million to $1 billion. But there are others - many others - who are looking for smaller opportunities, playing in the sweet spot of $50-$100 million market opportunities. Is that a $20 million market? $30 30 million market?

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