A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

… and if you’d like to appear on a future episode of Smart Bear Live, send an email to Patrick.Foley@microsoft.com to schedule a recording with Jason. And that’s what your name is. or an MSN or an AOL in terms of portal distribution. Jason: SyncBloc. That’s unfair. I know exactly who you are.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 26, 2019

The contract company would handle the other business aspects such as distribution, marketing, and sales. Alcohol production, distribution, and sales are all heavily shaped by laws. The current laws governing alcohol production, distribution, and sales evolved in the wake of the Prohibition era. We just emailed the guide to you.

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online.wsj.com

MARCH 4, 2013

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. NAME Microsoft. NAME Google. NAME Nokia. NAME Amazon.com. NAME comScore. NAME Katie McMahon. NAME Aaron Rubenson.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

The first hint lies in its name; this is a product development model, not a marketing model, not a sales hiring model, not a customer acquisition model, not even a financing model (and we’ll also find that in most cases it’s even a poor model to use to develop a product.) So what’s wrong the product development model?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

SuperMac sold our graphic boards for the Macintosh through multiple distribution channels: direct sales to major accounts, national chains, independent rep firms, etc. But the computer retail channel was a large part of our sales.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Can institutions be totally distributed or should they be rooted and loyal to a certain community or geography? Brian Armstrong : My name is Brian Armstrong. And in this crypto algorithm, they said, well, since we're all making this distributed ledger, we now have provably unique digital items that I can send to you, Eric.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Poplytics – online surveys and analytics AskYourTargetMarket – market research surveys SurveyMonkey - granddaddy of on-line surveys Amazon Mechanical Turk – you can set up a question and get answers PickFu – A/B testing $5 for 50 opinions Collaboration Dropbox – store, sync, and, share files online.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Email address: Home. Naming a Business. Service companies are increasingly looking to get into work-for-equity relationships," says Peter Wendell , managing director of the Menlo Park , California -based venture capital firm Sierra Ventures and a faculty member at Stanford Business School. Email Address: ); ADVERTISEMENT.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

According to reported data, more business decision makers, people with household incomes exceeding $100,000, and college and postgraduates are LinkedIn users than the physical distribution audience of the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times. Must-have # 2: A professional name. Stay away from gimmicky nicknames.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

These names aren’t the end of the story?—?they I expect to see more announcements of big name people and companies moving to Texas every month in 2021. Are they drawn to Texas or moving away from California? Texas exported more than California and New York combined in 2019. Who’s next? they are just the beginning.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

After that there’s a discussion of how the product will reach the customer and the potential distribution channel. The distribution discussion leads to some conclusions about competition: who are they and how they differ. The distribution discussion also leads to some assumptions about pricing. Marketing is at its peak.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

", and the page is exactly the same for me in California or someone in London? They also make it clear they only serve California, rather than telling you after you click the Submit button! The AAA form asks for a bit more info (height and weight) and, smartly, captures my email address. Why is it that when I visit www.3m.com

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Building a Chart We realized that if we wrote the names of the vertical markets across the top of the board, and then the startup functions on the left of the board, we could make a chart that could visually compare what differs across the vertical markets. Liquidity – How? M&A, IPO?

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Whether you’re wondering what site search you should use or what is the best email marketing tool, knowledge is power. Email Integration. Email marketing. Add a class name to buttons, forms, quotes, etc. Sendgrid : Need to send email out to users? They make sure that your emails never to go spam folders.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 11, 2013

Appsumo is an daily deals website for the coolest web apps and other digitally distributed goods. This is what they say about themselves: We are an distribution channel for companies that help entrepreneurs start, grow, optimize, and scale their businesses. 3200+ email addresses. Borderless world. Case study #3 - Noritz.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Top management was trying to coordinate all of the operating details (sales, manufacturing, distribution and marketing,) across all the divisions and the company almost went bankrupt that year when poor planning led to excess inventory (with unsold cars piling up at dealers and the company running out of cash.) What happened to him?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

An existing market is one where competitors have a profitable business selling to customers who can name the market and can tell you about the features that matter to them. Do you know have they distribute their product? An Existing Market All four were trying to resegment an “Existing Market.” Me – “Have you used Company x’s product?

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2009

In the end, the CEO couldn’t get his board to give us the cash in exchange for the Japanese distribution rights and some equity. I just found out that someone stole my idea today and also is using my name with “The&# in front of it. We ended up raising money from Sega. Thanks for sharing.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 3, 2020

John Jantsch: So the word mission is actually in the name of your business. So help me and listeners understand why that’s part of the name of your company. It started I supposed with email, but now it’s everywhere, because marketers always ruin everything. It’s the only place you can own your own distribution.

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Steve Blank

JULY 9, 2009

So I got out out of the building to meet and understand our customers and distribution partners. My partner had convinced several major Hollywood names that this was the inevitable consequence of the merger of Hollywood and Silicon Valley. We believed that by putting full motion video (i.e. And at the time it was a plausible scenario.)

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

A name like 500 Startups says it all. It’s just getting easier to raise early rounds and harder to raise later rounds,” says Y Combinator’s Paul Graham over email, hewing to the latter view that this has merely become startup life in the Valley. Cloud emailing service MailJet raises $3.3 By Nathaniel Mott.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Our name Reality2 stands for Reality2.0. I need to get you into both the Southern California Tech Central and the B2B Marketing Zone. We can extend our clients' reach tremendously, and for low cost, by using the internet and social media to distribute and link to the "assets" we create. Having fun again. Absolutely.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

The backdrop again: In 1998 when Larry Page’s and Sergey Brin’s Google offices were a Menlo Park, California garage - Bezos invested $250,000 of personal funds into the fledgling search engine. Inktomi and GoTo to name just a few. When Google went public in 2004, that $250,000 investment translated into 3.3 Alta Vista. Webcrawler.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

In this case, a simple distribution of overall search traffic and the amount that is coming via paid search. And these reports are so often clustered at the top with 152 variations of the brand names. Email marketing is another fav.) It shows Traffic Share and distribution of the share. One last one remains, geography.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

T ool: Curalate URL: Curalate.com What it does: Monitors and measures traffic from “visual-based platforms”—namely (for now, at least) Pinterest. Sign up for our news alerts, special offers & feature updates: Your Email Address. First Name. Company Name. * Distribution. Email and Fax Services. California.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 7, 2020

” And in newsjacking it worked because it’s in the Oxford English dictionary now, and my name is attached to it. You’ve got people doubling down and sending, if you get on an email list they send so many emails that it drives you crazy and you opt out. Scott: And so one neuroscientist named Edward T.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

My name is Eric Ries. Sal Khan : My name is Sal Khan. There was a South Korean teacher in particular, who started emailing us telling us how he was using Khan Academy to keep his students learning through the school closures there. So, that was the first moment that we said, "This looks like it could be a thing in California."

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David Cohen

APRIL 1, 2018

Like when I did this in China in 2013 with Andrew , who is now 16, I wrote a daily email home and am just posting them all here chronologically with a few photos. We end up at the American highway, which is apparently the same road as the PCH in California. Move that to there and evenly distribute it so the land is flat.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 20, 2010

I recently did a webinar for the Search Engine Strategies conference (I am doing the opening conference keynote at SES London and SES New York ) and my Market Motive co-faculty member Greg Jarboe sent me this KPI via email: "Your webcast was a big success. Does the distribution match your goals? So much better than # of attendees.

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