Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Airbnb is built on Amazon Web Services and uses their database tools to build their community. I would like to suggest that the notion of a platform is one that we can apply to almost any business. A platform is a system that helps people create products, services, profits, businesses, communities, and networks of their own.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

But with so many investors still licking their wounds from the dot-com bust, many focused on proven business models, such as advertising or e-commerce. The general rule is one business model drives the business. As it happened, we did end up pursuing all three lines of business. Your differential product?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

How to differentiate yourself in a crowded market (and when perhaps you shouldn’t try). So that means stuff like thinking about what a business model might be, it does mean customer development. They have 27 business units. You may not have that data in the database. What’s the worst case?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 26, 2012

This is tough for any organization, but can be next to impossible for a small business just getting started. One very powerful way to create a point of differentiation is to carve out a narrow segment of a market and explain through every communication that you are the experts in serving that market.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 25, 2011

I spent quite a bit of time studying eBay, both as a business model and as a means to capture new customers because of how much buying traffic is there. I knew how to find contract proofreaders and also had access to an online database of language translators. Over the years I heavily refined this business.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

DataSift has a product that builds a permanent database for you of just the information you want to capture. This turns out to be one of the real differentiators for Twitter. I think that today’s journalists want a simple story: “Twitter hasn’t yet proved its business model” but I think that misrepresents the long-term value.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Especially since even Youtube is still struggling to try find a viable business model. Some of the investments defy explanation… Money poured into something that no one has yet been able to monetise, with a competitive landscape that is over-saturated, and with no real differentiation from what’s already out there.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

My-i Toolbar enables operators to offer a differentiated and branded user experience across mobile Internet devices, to increase awareness of new mobile data services by promoting operator and third party content, and to generate revenues from targeted advertising.

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