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Transcript of How to Turn Your Product Idea Into a Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Along the way, we’ve come across some products that definitely have become household names like FitBit, and Soda Stream, Otterbox, S’well water bottles. John Jantsch: With a name like Duct Tape Marketing, I get asked this question all the time, is there a name story? Jules Pieri: Sure, so every day at 10 a.m

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Finding Your Co-Founders

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Sean and Shawn from Napster met in an IRC channel. In my case, I grew up in Connecticut and spent a fair amount of time in New York – all the while trying to start companies, relatively unsuccessfully. Fortunately, there are a number of examples of successful founding teams that met outside of school.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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You used to be able to raise venture money based on an idea and a team, but those days are long gone unless your name is Ev Williams or something similar. Twitter is an excellent distribution channel for us. (B) WOW, I hate the name. I am sure that is what you meant. Anti Matter Did you say your site is called RateBrain?