Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

There are so many reasons for professional service providers such as web designers and especially SEO and Internet marketing professionals to join: 1. Years of hard-sell cold-calling and deceptive marketing practices by thousands of domestic and offshore service providers promising SEO gold have tarnished our industry.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

There were a lot of questions about outsourcing/offshoring and startups. I dont see any reason why having the team offshore is any more of a liability in this area than, say, having to do this work while selling through a channel (and hence, not having direct access to customers). Talk about waste.

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nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

The sites to consider to find potential developers are: Elance - This is the original offshore/contract development site and has been around since the late 90s. Once you have put in the effort and found a potential technical co-founder, be generous with equity distribution. Recent Posts. 0 minutes ago -. 4 hours, 13 minutes ago -.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In consumer internet, that usually means one front-end user-facing developer, one back-end server-side developer, and ultimately a business person (details will come in a later post). I see lots of great execution on the Internet and I hear lots of chatter that Ideas are dime a dozen but I don’t see many new or innovative Ideas.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 24, 2019

At the same time, technology, even the internet alone, were making it possible for better products than ever to get created from small companies. So one of the challenges I suppose is somebody creates a good product, maybe they raise the money in a Kickstarter kind of way, but distribution is really going to make the difference.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

Obviously that barrier has been brought down with low-cost ability to capture, stream and distribute content over the Internet. He believes that one of the financial metrics taught at business schools and reinforced by Wall Street has accelerated offshoring of industries. “Online education is truly going to kill us.”

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Maybe this is because I run offshore software development company and have seen a LOT of people coming asking for help after dealing with freelancers. Dont blame the programmer if your internet platform or softwares not selling itself. You *can indeed* build products with distributed teams. And dont forget: youre no programmer.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Here’s the rub: in consumer internet (and often enterprise), if your founding team doesn’t have the chops to get a prototype of your product out and in the hands of a blogger to test and write about, you might as well save yourself a lot of pain – you’re not going anywhere. I don’t know any developers. I need money for the servers.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

The next generation takes the baton from their patriarch’s achievements and learn how to do better distribution, how to win over large customers, how to scale manufacturing, how to develop a niche market and be known as best-in-class in that niche. Om Malik was also on the panel. As was Shel Israel. But then the world changes.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

I originally came from the entreprise software world (for 10 years) and before that I was in mobile & telecoms (8 years) so the last three years of immersing myself in consumer Internet, digital media & advertisings has been very eye opening. I learned about domain parking and how much money that drives for Google.

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