Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2023

For starters, first figure out which industry you want to work in, narrow it down, and work hard to get intros at the senior levels to a handful of companies (Board of Directors member, Advisory Board member, member of the C-suite (CEO, CTO, CFO, etc), and/or investor.) We’ll row in unison and we’ll row in the right direction.”

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 6, 2015

by Tal Segalov, CTO & co-founder of Mintigo. During the campaign, they sold nearly three times as many Coke bottles in the UK as compared to Pepsi! Tal Segalov, CTO & co-founder of Mintigo brings more than 15 years of experience in software development. Remember Coca-Cola’s #ShareACoke marketing strategy?

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The concept of a Chief Marketing Officer comes from large enterprises, but it is a role that has grown exponentially in the last couple of years. These are used to measure progress and determine if the marketing team is meeting the goals of their campaigns. A fractional CMO is basically a part-time version of this position.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

For product launches, long-term success relies on cornerstones of marketing research and execution, like a strong value proposition and full-funnel campaign. The key to product launches is to create a resilient campaign—one that can survive the nonlinear journey. A famous 1913 campaign by R.J. That rarely happens.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Meet the startup co-founders that are simplifying and automating fundraising campaigns for nonprofits through their business, Kindest. David brought 2 of his co-founders, our CTO and Head of Design along with. We offer a technology platform that enables nonprofits to fundraise online through campaigns that convert at a higher rate.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Companies also use social networking sites in the hiring process, and increasingly, to do innovative advertising (such as the recent Jack in the Box campaign). Dr. Tony Karrer, CEO/CTO of TechEmpower Dr. Tony Karrer is the CEO/CTO of TechEmpower, a software, web, and eLearning development firm. What are the risks and rewards?

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 27, 2018

by Harsha Cuttari, CTO of AQUA Intelligence. he has led several marketing campaigns including online strategy consulting, for clients large and small around the world. But, how exactly are Millennials spending their money and to what extent do companies have power over them?

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Hunter Walker

JULY 6, 2017

and super strong response rates (about 200k in each campaign) but every week we’d have a couple dozen “out of flow” messages. First two hires were a CTO and Chief Data Scientist and they were out of DoSomething.org. So much of who we are today we owe to Chris Johnson, the founding CTO.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

TheMarker reports that since opening its API in May this year, Face has seen 5,000 developers use its technology on the cloud, with no need for installations. Face has said to be working on new applications both on the commercial side (working with companies such as Ortbit chewing gum on marketing campaigns) as well as on mobile applications.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 14, 2012

If a candidate for your technical lead was a CTO at a big company, for example, but he or she says they want to manage and not code, then he or she is not the right fit for an early-stage startup].

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View from Seed

MARCH 22, 2016

Your crowdfunding campaign. Your crowdfunding campaign hit it out of the park. Offer reporters an exclusive on the successful, viral campaign that got you there, or a behind-the-scenes look at what your product does and how you’ll deliver on this huge campaign’s promises. That is objectively crazy.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 24, 2018

That’s when he reached out on Twitter to make connections, and AJ Wilcox connected him to Dennis Yu, the chief technology officer at BlitzMetrics, which is now one of the top Facebook agencies worldwide. When Young first met Yu, Young didn’t even know who Mark Zuckerberg was.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

For an awesome description of Startup America, please read Aneesh Chopra’s (the United States CTO) post on TechCrunch titled Startup America: A Campaign To Celebrate, Inspire And Accelerate Entrepreneurship. By the way, I think it is awesomely cool that the CTO of the United States blogs on TechCrunch!

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

An early Human Rights Campaign board member and longtime Austin LGBTQ leader, Eugene co-chaired President Obama’s & the DNC’s LGBTQ Leadership Council. In this role, she leads the team that creates strategies and campaigns that support the company’s position as a leader in Corporate America for diversity and inclusion initiatives.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Now that Dick and Jane have added a CTO to SayAhh’s founding team, they’ve turned their full attention to working on their product. Once these were up Dick launched several AdWords campaigns to test customer interest. Dick, Jane, and Praveena decided to get a small office so they could work out of the same space.

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The Next Web

MARCH 10, 2013

This is a guest post by Chris Hollindale, co-founder and CTO of Hasty. It could be anything: over the last few days I’ve had ideas for new product features, potential advertising campaigns, strategies for hiring the right type of people to fit into our team, and ways of creating the company culture we want to build.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Investors: Matrix (Dana Stadler, who was the CTO of PayPal). It is a platform to help brands building viral marketing campaigns. They focus on trying to drive engagbranded social media marketing campaigns (e.g. 15mm in Series A. Read more: TechCrunch. The investment will be used for product development initiatives.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

As part of this process, the company’s CMO Rishi Dave, is encouraging teams to launch campaigns faster. At the 2014 Lean Startup Conference, Todd Park, former CTO of the United States and current advisor to the White House, concluded his panel discussion with the following sentence: “come work for us.”

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 10, 2011

Pet owners who like the cards will look on the back to see how to order some of their own, and suddenly you have a viral marketing campaign that cost you lots of initial legwork calling vets but not a lot of money. Maybe, maybe not, but this gets the ball rolling. Working the pain in B2B.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 6, 2013

total in funding on crowdfunding platform Kickstarter ) and “Main Street Matters”, where paint manufacturer Benjamin Moore used crowdsourcing as part of its marketing campaign to decide on the colors that would decorate certain main streets in the United States.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

In Gates and Ellison’s minds, the corporations who owned the Information Super Highway would tax every transaction by charging a “vigorish” as Microsoft’s then Chief Technology Officer Nathan Myhrvold referred to it at the time. The implications of the propriety vision were not good.

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OnlyOnce

MARCH 22, 2016

We are launching today with a Crowdrise campaign. Click here to contribute to our Crowdrise campaign , the goal of which is essentially a $500k “Series A” round (although it’s a non-profit, so this is a purchase of emotional equity, not actual equity) to move from product-market fit to a proven business model!

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Quip has redesigned office-productivity software for the mobile age. GigaOm’s Derrick Harris used BigML to analyze what makes a successful Kickstarter campaign , and discovered that smaller crowdfunding campaigns with a wide base of supporters are the most likely to succeed.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

And it was an even greater coincidence that I ended up watching part of his “jobs” speech at the same hotel where many of his 2008 presidential campaign events were held. Now, it was only by coincidence that the conference was held in President Obama's Chicago home town.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 31, 2014

Then you, my friend, better stop your entire guest blogging campaign this instance. Think about it, an average startup team is normally combined of a CEO, CMO, CTO and a few other talented folks. Each one of them can contribute differently using their knowledge about management, marketing or technology.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 14, 2016

My support of Hillary Clinton this election coincides with my distaste for the Trump campaign. Personally, I’m committing time and dollars for the next four months to campaign for Hillary but also speak with and learn more about the local and national economic challenges many communities face. Donald Trump does not.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 14, 2016

My support of Hillary Clinton this election coincides with my distaste for the Trump campaign. Personally, I’m committing time and dollars for the next four months to campaign for Hillary but also speak with and learn more about the local and national economic challenges many communities face. Donald Trump does not.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Correction: Last week's CTO position at Modcloth is actually a San Francisco opportunity, not Pittsburgh. A position where that will call on strategic and tactical execution, this person will design and execute a broad range of campaigns to facilitate customer acquisition.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

It gained recognition during the 2004 presidential campaign when Howard Dean’s IT director decided to use it as a platform for community and campaigning. I have no doubt he will, for he is a true “Startup CEO”, even though his title is CTO at Acquia. more info on the funding round from @thewhir [link].

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Initially, we promoted it to a list that we’d already developed through Website Grader, the free app our CTO Dharmesh Shah had built before we even had a product. For awhile, that channel was a share option on all our blog posts, and we tried paying for stumbles for some campaigns. But HubSpot doesn’t even talk about that now.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

My first AdWords campaign was limited to five dollars a day, and we were buying clicks at five cents a click. We ran ad campaigns against every single product we could think of in an adjacent market space to ours. In a mature company with a mature product, the goal is to pay for lots of people to come to your website.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Or, your target market might be a certain type of employee at another company, such as a CTO or head of marketing. You might end up coming up with different marketing campaigns for different market segments or even customizing your product or service for each segment. See Also: Understand Your Customers with Market Segmentation.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

The story behind this name – and even the origin of the company – is that one time, our CTO tried to open a bank account with Barclays UK. Ultimately, I decided to create an acronym that, while it means nothing on its own, when attached to our marketing campaign, the letters started coming alive.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 9, 2010

The reason for the rapid growth is given in the official press release : DoubleVerify provides a technology solution that delivers transparency and accountability for agencies, marketers, publishers and ad networks running online ad campaigns. The company most recently raised a $3.5 million first round last May.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 24, 2022

You can even use bot bill to create robust, automated multi-channel campaigns, learn how to grow better by connecting your people, your customers, and your business @ hubspot.com. Use social media tools to schedule and publish updates, monitor terms and analyze performance. So that I've got headroom on my curve.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 3, 2008

It is quite likely that you'll sit in the IT (CTO / CIO) function. I am getting to how you can increase your salary part. Please stick with me. Answering the above four questions honestly and critically is much harder than you think. Make no mistake this can be fun, you get to travel, meet new companies and people.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Gabriel Kuperman, CEO of CuePin, says, “Try testing an idea with a small budget that you can obtain through your own savings, a small bank loan, or even a Kickstarter campaign. A good online campaign should include paid search engine advertising, social media advertising, email marketing, and a PR campaign.”.

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