Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2023

They are l ongtime sales leaders, practitioners, and professors of Entrepreneurship at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. Also, they are investors, startup advisors, and co-founders of Agency18, a firm that helps mission-driven companies adopt their Unsold Mindset. We do everything together.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. To that point, we are most excited when our founders are able to go from slide deck to product-market fit and Series A and beyond. We are truly grateful for your support. First check to Series A?—?congrats

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2007

and she provides this picture: It shows that while we slowly approach real-time, realistic virtual conversations, it still isnt quite the same thing as being there. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound. in Computer Science.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

What I really liked in my conversations with The Hive is that they are willing to work with and fund ventures that would never get VC dollars. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Such was my recent meeting with Seth Sternberg, founder & CEO of Meebo. We then captured this conversation again on camera. And I’d recommend them to any talented startup founders out there.&#. Seth saw friends move out to California, go to school, and launch Plaxo. And there you have it. Not a chance.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Tim O’Reilly, Founder at O’Reilly Media and promoter of open source and Web 2.0 Let’s have a look at what early stage founders can expect in terms of oxygen. Paying 0% in state income tax in Texas versus up to ~10% in California or ~6.5% You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

A Conversation with Eric Ries Thursday, September 15, 2011, 7:30 PM 1855 Main St , Santa Monica , CA ( map ) Price: $30.00 /per person Eric not only created the term "Lean Startup", he has sparked a movement that is changing the way people think about startups. Co-sponsored by the Rock Center & the Harvard innovation lab.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

As the conversation began to get down to how much stock and salary we could offer van Dam, we left the barber to finish his work and went to a payphone to call our CEO to confirm the deal. Forget the Hypertext idea and come on back to California. A few days later Gordon became a founder. The response from across the country?

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. And I tried to evaluate the idea and figure out: What did the founder really need here? Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? same as the old boss.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Texas exports more than California and New York combined. Only California and New York have more. You can launch a business in Austin or Houston but eventually you will probably need to sell to customers in California or raise funding there. More than 50 Fortune 500 companies are headquartered in Texas and 6 of the Fortune 50.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Im constantly frustrated by conversations that take place in discussion groups that cant cross the border into the blog world. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Visible networking is turning into a really great opportunity to get to know people better, get to meet new people, and have some interesting conversations. Tell me a bit about the Founder's Institute. Also, the sense of camaraderie and "leave no founder behind" mission of FI is excellent. It sounds interesting.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012. Here's my conversation with Brian Armstrong. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase. How has it been for you?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

She’s also a founding member of All Raise, a non-profit committed to improving diversity in both funders and founders. Among her early investments are Lyft, TaskRabbit and Modcloth, which, as our recent conversation shows, are only part of the reason Forbes called her “the most powerful woman in startups.” Let’s move to Floodgate now.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

the Connectors, Angels, Venture Capitalists, Founders, Professors, Hackers, Press… and the Legends. Find the Connectors , the Angels , the Venture Capitalists , the Founders , the Professors , the Hackers , and the Legends you need to meet and get some hints about the best ways to meet them. Here is your COVID-friendly cheat sheet.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

The Customer is a Genius Then instead of talking about our products he segued the conversation into their products. And soon the conversation were about architectural tradeoffs and then how customers didn’t appreciate the elegant designs and how the world was going to hell in a handbasket because of these commodity microprocessors.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

In January of this year, he arrived in the US with his co-founders as part of the winter 2020 YCombinator batch. You can listen to our conversation on Apple , Google, or wherever you like to download podcasts. In addition, a complete transcript of our conversation follows the show resources below. Alpha Lee : Yeah.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

UbiQD Founder and CEO Hunter McDaniel, PhD, explained more about how UbiGro works. Therefore, we can create almost any arbitrary glow spectrum, for example, to mimic the late summer sun in a specific location like Northern California. Once you have the content down, then can you relax and be conversational, with good jokes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

You can listen to our conversation on Apple , Google, or wherever you like to download podcasts. I have been the witness to it many times in my career because I work with startup founders. Here's my conversation with Lenore Estrada. I'm the founder and executive director of SF New Deal.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

Celine Halioua , founder of a company called Celevity that is developing drugs to extend the lifespan of dogs, also played a key role. You can listen to our conversation on Apple , Google, or wherever you like to download podcasts. In this conversation, you're going to get to hear from someone who's really doing it.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 14, 2020

My inclination was that “this is a team of scrappy founders, and I like how they think.”. HiHello has a remote team of engineers – in New York, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and California. Doug and his co-founder Vivek Nair , were not planning on raising any venture capital money yet. I immediately liked what I saw.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , Virtualitics uses patented technology, based on a decade of research at the California Institute of Technology and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Department of Defense, Nestle and University of Southern California. Tell us your favorite thing about being based in Pasadena, California.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

"When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., California.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 7, 2016

We also analyzed the results from the resolution conversation on our Facebook page to take the pulse of our Bplans readers: We surveyed our Bplans readers, and here are their #2016Goals. One of Adam’s favorite vacation destinations: Big Sur, California. “ We'd love to hear yours! ” Click To Tweet. In 2016, unplug.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2018

by Courtney Reum and Carter Reum, co-authors of “ Shortcut Your Startup: Speed Up Success with Unconventional Advice from the Trenches “ Too often we see leaders who have the entrepreneurial instinct to move quickly go wide before they’ve nailed the most crucial early steps. You minimize risk.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 26, 2020

First, just to provide a foundation here, Bazaarvoice was named after Chapter 4 of “The Cluetrain Manifesto” (available for free online), “ Markets Are Conversations ”. Do yourself a favor and read “Markets Are Conversations” if you never have?—?it Then in 1998 along came a tiny company in Los Gatos, California named Netflix.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

If you look at the top 3 online retailers by conversion rate, none of these are award-winning designs : [link] [link] [link] However, they convert ~25% of visitors to customers. Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) That’s 10x what many websites convert.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

If you’re a visiting dignitary whose country has a Gross National Product equal to or greater than the State of California, your visit to Silicon Valley consists of a lunch/dinner with some combination of the founders of Google, Facebook, Apple and Twitter and several brand name venture capitalists. California Dreaming.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

How do you feel like this book will bring structure to the conversation? [19:32] So really, my book, The Blueprint is not based just on Bezos, but it's based on interviews and conversations with former Amazonians who have adopted the leadership and communication strategies that Bezos pioneered to build Amazon.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

TaskRabbit has (people) making over $5,000 a month in San Francisco," says Craig Shapiro, founder of Collaborative Fund, a venture-capital fund specializing in sharing sites. Inspired in Zimbabwe The founders of Zimride were inspired by drivers in Zimbabwe, who pick up strangers and give them a lift for a few bucks. Thats real money."

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. I was going to mention sales force as well but I thought I’d save that for the latter part of the conversation because talking [inaudible] bridge would be a bit of a departure. What does it mean to have a co-founder or not? I’m part of Women 2.0, Melissa: OK.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Darren Nix , Group Manager of the Assessments product team at Indeed and founder of the Y Combinator -backed startup Interviewed (acquired by Indeed), puts it this way: “Users can’t design your product for you. Hunter Brennick , co-founder and COO of Landing Lion , emphasizes humility and listening for product managers.

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Haystack

OCTOBER 16, 2019

I’m at an offsite down in southern California. The act of convincing a new investor to get conviction & set a price is a healthy checkpoint for all parties – founders, early employees & existing investors.” Hi everyone. ” Whoops!

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 28, 2020

With the theme “Build Back Better” Jerry Engel , Pete Newell , Steve Weinstein and I co-hosted nearly 500 Lean Educators from 63 countries and 235 universities online for a three-hour session to share what we’ve learned about educators on how we can help our communities rebound, adjust, and recover. See here for a video of the investor panel.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

The Co-Commerce Revolution – Well it isn’t really a revolution, more of a devolution. The co-commerce era is here and defined by the 3 C’s – Collaboration, Conversations and Creativity. You’ll find it is full of contradictions and juxtapositions. My favourite example is collectors weekly.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 24, 2016

by Eddie Lester, founder of Fitness Mentors. We all are involved, or overhear, conversations where people cite problems they have that no company has yet developed a solution for. Unless you are Coca-Cola, there’s a good chance that your company relies on innovation, evolution and forward-thinking to sell products or services.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

It starts before the technology development even gets underway, says Stanford University computer science professor Dr. Fei-Fei Li , who is the co-founder and co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. You can listen to the conversation here. Greylock Partners · Human-Centered AI | Dr. Fei-Fei Li.

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