Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 3, 2024

” Martin Gonzalez is the creator of Google’s Effective Founders Project, a global research program that decodes the factors that enable startup founders to succeed. By fostering open communication, self-reflection, and conflict resolution, startups can establish a healthy culture conducive to sustained growth.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Idealistic founders believe they will break the mold when they scale, and not turn into a “typical big company.” Or it’s fatal because that was a co-founder. If Google launches a new product that generates $10,000,000/year in revenue, is that good? A team of one is brittle, but fast.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2018

I suggest the following sequence of startup preparation steps: Create a business entity early to isolate business efforts. Co-mingling personal and business funds and accounts creates legal risk and tax liability, and makes your efforts look like a hobby. Execute a pilot rollout before attempting to scale globally.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2018

by Thomas Smale, founder of FE International. What if there was somewhere you could go where you can be surrounded by founders just like you? Or where you can network with established, successful founders and investors? Or where you can network with established, successful founders and investors? Here are the top 10: 1.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Why do these founders get to stay around? Because the balance of power has dramatically shifted from investors to founders. — Unremarked and unheralded, the balance of power between startup CEOs and their investors has radically changed: IPOs/M&A without a profit (or at times revenue) have become the norm. .

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

The concept our Guilds is simple: We want to bring together small groups of Product and Go-to-Market experts to lend their time to support our portfolio company founders and key operators. Pierre Valade, Co-Founder of Sunrise & Mobile Designer at Microsoft. Brian Balfour, Founder & CEO of Reforge. Product Guild.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5%

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

Photo by Vanna Phon on Unsplash Customer acquisition is the lifeblood of many startups from e-commerce to gaming to marketplace companies, among others. Most of these startups spend the lion’s share of their marketing budget in today’s social media channels: Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Snap, TikTok and so on because?—?no no surprise?—?that’s

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

by Arsalan Sajid, startup community manager at Cloudways. Life is not a box of chocolates and startups are not always easy to start. There is a complete process that governs the startup lifecycle including inception to exit. This startup stage starts from the day you decide to work on a startup idea. Early Stage.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2021

At the front-end of these innovations are startups – organizations the Department of Defense hasn’t previously dealt with at scale. Jeff Decker is a co-instructor of the Hacking for Defense class and the Stanford program director. And how the Department of Defense is learning to work with startups.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Rick Boerebach is a co-founder of ZEEF.com , a curated link directory built by passionate experts. He has a background in affiliate marketing and development and is a startup enthusiast in general. Affiliate marketing can help your startup rise above the clutter and increase your revenue.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2022

According to most authoritative sources , the global economy has been severely impacted by the current pandemic. Yet if you wait for an economy bubble before starting your new business, you will be making a comparable mistake to the people who thought during the dot-com bubble "all I have to do is a startup, and I'll be rich."

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The Next Web

JANUARY 23, 2014

Timo Rein is the cofounder & CEO of Pipedrive , and was previously the cofounder of Vain & Partners - the leading Sales Training company in the Baltics. The startup attitude. When the venture eventually fails (as most startups do), most of the public will conclude with a self-righteous “I told you so.”

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

The time has come for the Texas startup community to band together to change the world once again. Texas has produced world-changing startups in the past such as Dell Software , National Instruments and Whole Foods Market but all of those were founded more than 30 years ago. We truly are an accelerator of the Austin startup ecosystem.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2018

As part of The Startup Magazine founders interviews, we sat down with Lee Thompson and Radha Vyas, the co-founders of Flash Pack , a lifestyle travel company specialising in adventure trips for solo travelers in their 30’s – 40’s. . Flash Pack’s co-founders and husband and wife team, Radha Vyas & Lee Thompson.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

They found ways to support longterm care facilities, homeless shelters, and other locations serving those most at risk, all while schools, their main source of revenue, were closed. Here's my conversation with the founders of Revolution Foods. I'm the co founder and Chief Impact Officer at Revolution Foods.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 6, 2023

billion invested in generative AI startups globally in the first half of 2023 according to Pitchbook. From Open Source LLMs, to new APIs, both startups and tech giants continue to push the envelope on what is possible to automate and improve using generative AI technologies. It’s been a big year for AI.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

What was your approach to picking co-founders, and what advice would you give entrepreneurs on this? I think having a co-founder is very important. I’ve seen people succeed as solo founders – but I think not having a co-founder makes an already hard journey that much harder. The rest is history.

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fi.co

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Globalizing Silicon Valley - See the Worldwide Schedule - Lead a Local Chapter. -->. Our vision is to Globalize Silicon Valley by creating and fostering local startup ecosystems in promising markets across the globe. Founder Feedback. Why a 50/50 Split is Almost Never Right for Co-Founders by @DaveParkerSEA.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2020

by Manni Sidhu, Co-founder and CEO of Coleegs , and William Gilchrist , Founder and CEO of Konsyg. A new challenge has bloomed for founders and managers in the Covid-19 era –how do they set key performance indicators (KPIs) for the years ahead? How much further will our revenues drop? Will our funding dry out?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2012

People say the important part of a Startup is its Team. There are three market categories that startups from Singapore are likely to address: 1. Startups in this category start off in their home markets (i.e. As a startup in Asia, the top 2 markets to start from are China , and India. Global from day one (GD1).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. Founder’s perspective. As You Start to Mature. You’ll get empathy.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

We then help surround founders with other talent who want to join important causes but don’t have the startup idea themselves. It’s rare to find extraordinarily talented individuals who are natural leaders and who are driven to succeed and who have a passion for startups so when you do you work hard to find opportunities for them.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I’ve spent my life in innovation, eight startups in 21 years, and the last 15 years in academia teaching it. the wave of semiconductor startups in the 1960’s/70’s, the emergence of Venture Capital as a professional industry, the personal computer revolution in 1980’s, the rise of the Internet in the 1990’s and finally.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 12, 2013

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Christian Reber, CEO and co-founder of Berlin-based 6Wunderkinder. It’s unrelated to the startup world, but I can highly recommend to watch “ Being Liverpool ”. But that’s the case for only tiny amount of startups. You can follow him on Twitter, where he is @ChristianReber.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In that capacity, I co-founded the Harvard Business School Alumni Angels Venture Capital Access Program, a joint venture with the National Association of Investment Companies (“NAIC”), which helps women and diverse entrepreneurs raise capital. . Starship was launched by the co-founders of Skype. Are you politically active?

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View from Seed

APRIL 30, 2015

There’s been a lot of digital ink spilled around the various types of capital available to startups today. What is it, and how should founders think about it? As a startup grows, venture debt becomes a viable option to continue that growth. You’ll also see some startups use it as an additional cushion.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Entrepreneurs who’ve overcome the proof-of-concept phase of their startups want to take their businesses to the next level. Within the entrepreneurship ecosystem, “scaleup” challenges differ from startup challenges and demand unique solutions. All communities and their startups face the scaleup challenge.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The world of startups is a bit like a gold rush right now: there’s lots of money to be made, almost no rules regarding who will make or lose it, and only a few will actually see a sustained profit at the end of the day. Generating solid revenue streams early on will make many of the fundraising problems much easier to handle later on.

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Austin Startup

JULY 18, 2017

Last week I had the honor of speaking at the “Engineers turned Entrepreneurs” panel at the 3 Day Startup Global Roundup. Since I’ve been doing my own startups for the past couple of years, I got excited about the opportunity to share some of the wonderful-yet-painful lessons learned through this journey. More than that.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

My estimate is that the top 5 YouTube networks will do > $200 million net revenue in 2013 (after Google’s share). The founders had been responsible for gaining staggering scale in the past 3 years, having been trail-blazers in building a network of talent and an unrivaled understanding of the YouTube ecosystem.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Your time at ESADE has trained you to become a global business leader. Just look at the disruptive challenges that businesses face today– globalization, China as a manufacturer, China as a consumer, the Internet, and a steady stream of new startups. Efficiency over innovation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

Yet there are clearly some positive steps I can recommend for getting you (and him) over the bridge: Find a co-founder who has been there and done that. The reality is that building a business always takes longer than anticipated, so don’t quit your “day job” until revenue is flowing. You must also learn from your customers.

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

The invite-only event was attended by 300 of the area’s best tech leaders, founders, product managers, designers, developers, investors, engineers, salesmen and women, and more, all of whom are hard at work in consumer tech. The other pillar company CEO to speak closed the Summit — Niraj Shah, Co-founder and CEO of Wayfair: .

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The global rise in venture capital didn’t skip Israel, which has been breaking new records the amount of venture capital raised by companies in 2021. In the first half of 2021, Israeli startups raised a staggering $12.2 In the first half of 2021, Israeli startups raised a staggering $12.2

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

trillion dollar global phenomenon , generating $768 billion in U.S. For even the largest global brands, it’s been a challenge to overcome barriers to premium mobile commerce entry, including speed, cost, and the technical talent to meet demand for a heightened experience. By: Ryan Terry, co-founder and president, BILDIT.

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