Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In fact, when Brian and Dharmesh were actually creating it and wrote the book Inbound Marketing, that's when Duct Tape Marketing was really around and I had a lot of conversations with them early on. That's hundred grand annual revenue. And that became about, and now is about 40% of HubSpot's revenue. Why am I asking?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2020

For example, a new ride-sharing company would need approval from local regulated industries or a state revenue office before it could commence operations. The move allowed Young to sit in on those meetings and conversations to figure out who shared her professional interests. her first step was to join the local chamber of commerce.

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Austin Startup

MAY 10, 2021

Experienced growth-stage executive joins Hologram to continue its rapid growth CHICAGO and AUSTIN, TEXAS ? —? Georgoff also held senior positions during critical growth periods for both Redbox and RetailMeNot, where he helped drive increased revenue growth through his leadership roles in strategy, marketing, and product.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Written by Latinitas Founder and CEO Laura Donnelly IBM: Where Corporate Responsibility is Not a Trend, but a Lifestyle was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Texas has 4 of the 11 largest cities in the United States and they are all within driving distance of each other. Texas is the most promising technology investment opportunity in the United States and Capital Factory is going to turbocharge it. I believe it will take all of Texas working together. Texas cities are diverse.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 29, 2017

A 1992 study from the Harvard Business Review found that the right pricing changes can drive revenue and profit improvements faster than any other growth lever — faster than increasing the volume of sales or decreasing costs. At worst you will destroy hard earned revenue and/or profit. The importance of price. Let’s break this down.

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Austin Startup

JULY 2, 2021

The self-service Chargify Business Intelligence analytics suite enables users to create custom dashboards with real-time billing and revenue management data. CareerPlug and Chargify first partnered together in 2018 after CareerPlug recognized it had a significant business problem that fellow Texas-based Chargify could solve.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

Our conversation shifted toward discussing the problems within the podcast industry, specifically podcast apps, and how we might solve those issues. The company really started over 8 years ago with a nickname from my fans in South Texas who affectionately gave me the nickname, Juan Lobo, which is my name in Spanish. It was 2016.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 8, 2017

by Andy Tryba & Marisa Goldenberg Ridesharing in Austin got even more interesting on Memorial Day as Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law a statewide regulation framework overruling local Austin rules. Some things improve with scale in our favor — e.g. Google API, insurance rates, Stripe processing fees, etc.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 20, 2018

Besides, getting into Y Combinator is easy: just be wicked smart, create a beautiful product, get millions of users, and build a revenue stream that grows 20% every month. Building the Company: Pre-YC It was late 2009 and I was working a full-time gig for the State of Texas running Texas A&M System’s website.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 24, 2011

The other way OOD manifests itself is that I am in your face, on this blog, constantly asking you to create goals in your web analytics tool ( macro and micro conversions ) as well as identify goal values for each of those beloved goals. At victoriassecret.com the macro-conversion is making a purchase. Here is an example.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 22, 2017

The Forrest Four-Cast: March 22, 2017 On March 6, SXSW was one of several organizations that spoke at a press conference opposing SB6 (the so-called Texas Bathroom Bill). We’re proud to use our platform to call out policies that could harm so many people, and harm Texas. The bill has now moved to the Texas House of Representatives.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

The stories he told me during our conversation, somber as they are, show the truth of that belief. You can listen to our conversation on Apple podcasts , Google podcasts , or wherever you like to download. 18:08) Carl's experiences at USAA following Hurricane Harvey's devastating 2017 hit on Texas. (18:21)

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Latinitas’ 4th annual Startup Chica Conference presented by eBay took place Saturday, October 20th, at the University of Texas-Austin McCombs School of Business, Robert B. A group of Startup Chica attendees conversing with Patrick Gallagher from Dell. Rowling Hall.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 4, 2010

On a serious note… offering your opinion on something, unsupported by any data except "I think", is probably a really poor way to start a conversation with anyone in the Analytics field. Ok so if I accept your recommendation of removing ads what do you recommend I do about the revenue stream? Here is an example.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 26, 2019

In some states, such as Texas, Virginia, Minnesota, and Tennessee, tracking company vehicles without the owner’s consent is deemed illegal. Employees often fudge their hours – known as time theft – which could mean a huge loss of revenue for the company. In California, the penal code prohibits any “movable thing” from being tracked.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 19, 2017

Two conversations from earlier this week stand out for me - the first with the General Manager of a North Carolina war memorial museum and the second with the CEO a $50 million+ revenue Texas - based satellite services business.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 8, 2017

I’m hoping that RideAustin won’t suffer the same fate and that it can retain a portion of the Central Texas market. An independently-organized effort that organically came together quickly in response to the departure of Uber and Lyft, this innovative service shares its revenues with local non-profits.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 13, 2016

I recently moderated a strategic planning session for a Texas-based developer and distributor of specialty software for the financial services industry. I would encourage any business that feels “stuck” in any important aspect - revenue growth, cash flow, client satisfaction, culturally - to prompt a business intervention like this.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 25, 2015

Brogley also pointed out that this strategy is beneficial for the brand as well, as it often leads to higher conversion rates, increased sales and boosted brand loyalty. Personalised pricing, so the economic theory goes, can save companies this lost revenue. Personalized pricing: The future of the customized shopping experience?

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Also, most VCs are only looking for companies in a high-growth track where any net revenue will be reinvested for growth (no corporate profits, no corporate tax), so they are selecting for companies for whom an LLC structure isn’t really that appealing. But not all VCs think that way. Originally published at Silicon Hills Lawyer.

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Austin Startup

MAY 4, 2017

By the time I left this job to move to Texas (Minnesota winters are long and harsh), I had developed a few web applications, a couple of desktop apps, and an automated process which helped increase the revenue of this business and it also created new revenue streams and offerings to new and existing clients.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Not to mention, TNC providers and the City of Austin will enjoy added revenue from people with disabilities now using TNC services! Can anyone from Austin say, @MichaelDell  — he started as a one man show working from his dorm room at the University of Texas at Austin.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

It’s still there three years in, despite real revenue, profitability, customers arriving everyday, and a great team. This is always how the conversation would go: PM: What kind of discount are you offering? Jason Baptiste charted it well: As you can see, the pain is not limited to the beginning of the venture.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 13, 2022

And thanks for the pre-show conversation. I got a call from this place in Texas. So the first stage is doing is the activity that a business must do to generate revenue, to be a service to clients. So Mike, welcome to the show. This is at least your third or fourth time here. Mike Michalowicz (01:32): Yeah. I was fine.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

A Texas Tech study showed that brands that engage on social media have stronger, more loyal followings. Small businesses that embrace visual content are likely to gain higher returns in terms of followers, likes, shares, and revenue. And with all the people on social media these days– just Facebook, alone, is boasting 2.45

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

I did, which is why I petitioned to take user experience design courses during my business school days at The University of Texas and concurrently enrolled in a part-time coding bootcamp during my final semester. These managers have a tendency to steamroll conversations. When it comes to interviewing, similar logic applies.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2016

Alan Bourgeois, Texas Authors, Inc. #4 Curiously, over the last fifteen years I’ve had the same conversation over and over with other people who felt a similar blankness as to their calling in life. It was that key desire to help people that has pushed me forward through the tough times and to make it work. Thanks to B.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 30, 2017

So we have to be really clear on what we want them to know about us.” — Steve Jobs, founder of some company It’s a sunny day in Austin, Texas. Why do they think your company does what it does, beyond generating revenue? And we’re not going to get the chance to get people to remember much about us. No company is.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 1, 2018

For this round, we chose to work with Active Capital , a new fund based in Texas led by Pat Matthews and Pat Condon, because they agree wholeheartedly with the funding and operating strategy I describe below. In fact, this was our third $2.5 We use the Touch Zero Operating Model to manage our business.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 11, 2022

In a recent survey of 2,000 business owners by Texas Tech, 83% of the respondents claimed that they have a business that they love so much that they'd recommend it to others, yet 29% do so. After you have identified six or seven potential strategic partners it is time to begin the conversation. Referrals are invaluable to any business.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2016

Statistics trap #3: Click rates and the conversion rate. A uni-factorial analysis of variance checks whether the variances of the individual samples differ, and the test variant that features a significant, higher conversion rate than the control. Statistics trap #3: Click Rates and Conversion Rate. “If During Testing.

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Austin Startup

JULY 5, 2017

For a sense of scale, consider that Tesla generated $7B of revenue in 2016. Of that, Tesla does not even break out non-automotive revenue, meaning that their battery/solar business today is small fraction of total sales. The global energy industry is on the order of trillions of dollars of revenue.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

If the state has budget issues, which I believe it does, and needs to raise tax revenue (which has other options available such as cutting staff, eliminating duplication and programs and implementing automation – all of which businesses have been doing for the last ~2 years), then let’s raise taxes. Citrix Presentation Server 4.0,

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Most of them are from California (8.56%), New York (8.16%), Florida (7.40%), Texas (6.16%), Pennsylvania (5.71%) and Illinois (5.71%). The conversion rate of your landing page or offer. Carefully analyze your customer and revenue data. Perhaps you’re included to believe her because your overall conversion rate is only 3%.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

The Data Warehouse market is typically estimated at $30 B in annual revenue and the big data components, where the largest need for performance gains resides, is growing at double digit rates. According to 451 Research , “For vendors with less than $1 B in revenue, we estimate a CAGR of 39%.” Amazon Redshift Too Slow or Crashing?

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

Social media audiences have effectively become another universe of prospects to tap, which means measurement and tracking is essential to yielding from these visitors both direct and indirect revenue. The breakdown: “Capturing conversation outside brand-owned channels is not a perfect science, but at the moment, Radian6 is leading the pack.

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