Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Mastering SEO in the Age of AI written by Tosin Jerugba read more at Duct Tape Marketing  The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Stephan Spencer, an acclaimed SEO expert and founder of net Concepts, an interactive agency specializing in search engine optimization.

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SEO ChatGPT Technical Review Search 58

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 13, 2015

Suppose the goal of this particular company is to achieve $1m in annual revenue for a two-person bootstrapped startup, with a goal to be so efficient as to never have to hire employees, and therefore produce a terrific little business that nets each of them a few million dollars over the next ten years.

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Business Model Affiliate Startup Bootstrapping 120

The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Anyone reading this blog will have noticed that the internet has transformed retail. Here’s a definition of drop shipping from the Shopify blog : Drop shipping is a retail method in which you don’t keep products in stock. Phase 1 – Offline retail – golden period: before 2000. Winners included Amazon and Net-a-porter.

Stock 104

Stock Acquisition eCommerce .Net 104

VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

It is bad legislation and it will add significantly to non-productive administrative and legal overhead and kill productivity within the technology sector in Colorado (including not only technology-related businesses, but virtually every business – and every consumer – who uses technology). Citrix Presentation Server 4.0,

Software 48

Software SQL Colorado Fractional CTO 48

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. Amazon saw that the internet would change retail. Nowhere in our book do we recommend that all entrepreneurs blitzscale.

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 4, 2011

One the factors I like to hammer home to people when they create any kind of information, whether it’s blog or website content, membership content, or any kind of paid info product, is not to underestimate how much of your audience truly are beginners. Everyone starts as a beginner. All these lessons can be applied to your situation.

Sales 70

Sales Technical Review Affiliate Video 70

Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Ben and his partner Marc Andreessen (the founder of Netscape and author of the first commercial web browser on the Internet ) are the definition of Smart Money. I’ve followed them with a few observations about the Internet that may help frame the scope of the debate. Is this tech bubble as broad as the 1995-2000 dot.com bubble – no.

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Internet Silicon Valley United States .Net 301

abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Over 13 years ago, in March of 2000, I wrote a blog post titled “ The Most Powerful Internet Metric of All. ” The key thesis was this: if an Internet company could obsess about only one metric, it should be conversion. As such, it is time to pound the table again – conversion is by far the most powerful Internet metric of all.

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Metrics Conversion Internet Acquisition 93

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 8, 2011

I was speaking at Internet Week yesterday on networking and so I wanted to gather some of my thoughts. These people are bad for you, bad for your network, and take steps to avoid them is a net positive. I've been very lucky over the last six years of being involved in the NYC innovation community to meet some fantastic folks.

Networking 120

Networking Social Media Acquisition Curation 120

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. Since its founding in 2000, its members have invested over $800 million dollars in over 800 companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, real estate and other segments with high growth potential.

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North America Accredited Investor Angel Investor Angel Groups 337

Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. The inflation-adjusted data from the last bubble tells the story: In the 3-year period from 1998-2000, venture capital firms raised more than $200 billion, which represented about 0.55% of the national GDP.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Database 78

Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

I despised every minute of it, which is why I decided to establish an internet business. Sometimes it can be so hard to truly optimize your sleep because of how inaccessible and expensive certain sleep products can be, so I wanted to work against that. There are several nice side effects from increased productivity.

Entrepreneur 146

Entrepreneur Software Review LLC Web Development 146

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2019

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. Since its founding in 2000, its members have invested over $800 million dollars in over 800 companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, real estate and other segments with high growth potential.

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Angel Investor North America Accredited Investor Angel Groups 241

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. Since its founding in 2000, its members have invested over $400 million in companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, real estate and other segments with high growth potential. and Dave McClure.

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North America Rhode Island Accredited Investor Angel Investor 289

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2017

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. Since its founding in 2000, its members have invested over $800 million dollars in over 800 companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, real estate and other segments with high growth potential. and Dave McClure.

Angel Investor 167

Angel Investor North America Accredited Investor Angel Groups 167

This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 20, 2010

What Apple proved, and what I suspect is the issue with web content, is that monetization was a product problem. I never would have paid for music back in 1999 or 2000 when I was sporting my 64mb Creative Nomad, powered completely ilegally by Napster. Remember when they said that people wouldn't pay for music? It can’t be that.

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Product Clickthrough RSS Venture Capital 141

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 9, 2013

You might net $1 million and that would change your life. They told me that we had a chance to build the next great Internet company. But I had been down this road in 2000 and I saw how punishing markets could be when you didn’t sell and had an offer. But we’ve built a great product – we’ll find a way.

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San Francisco Term Sheet Flash .Net 405

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. Since its founding in 2000, its members have invested over $400 million in companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, real estate and other segments with high growth potential. and Dave McClure.

Angel Investor 270

Angel Investor North America Rhode Island Accredited Investor 270

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Building Product 2. Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly. Would it be a good idea clubbing all the other products / services under 1 venture, because some of them are totally unrelated. do something else.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser. Internet Explorer. Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

I ruffled a few feathers with my recent post The Software Product Myth. The unrest surrounded my statement that making $2500/month from your software product wouldn’t allow you to quit your day job. Internet - $20-60/month. Smartest thing I have read on the internet all day, well done sir. #8 7 Drew on 01.08.09

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Software Review Software Hosting Salary 52

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

PMC-Sierra, a premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, is purchasing Wintegra Inc. , PMC-Sierra is buying Wintegra for a net purchase price of $213 million and will pay up to an additional $60 million based on growth and performance milestones in 2011. billion net profit. billion, of which $2.5

Bandwidth 79

Bandwidth Framework Forecast 79

David Teten

JUNE 7, 2011

Until recently, most Internet innovation has centered around improvements — big improvements, but incremental ones nonetheless — to existing business models and familiar social structures: Amazon is the ultimate retail destination, Zipcar the ubiquitous rental-car agency; Meetup is a sewing circle on steroids.

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Darfur Sudan Cofounder United Kingdom 122

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

. - Aerotel Medical Systems is a world leading manufacturer of modular, home and mobile telecare and telemedicine solutions designed to transfer essential data over the telephone, mobile phone and the Internet. Craze Productions. For mobile backhauling applications, FibroLAN is now offering the Falcon SE product line.

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

VC Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2011

Net foreign investment in stocks traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) totaled $440 million in June, 9% higher than in May, and well above the $240 million monthly average recorded during the first six months of the year. PhotoMedex develops excimer laser, LED light systems and skin care products for dermatological applications.

China 90

China Cofounder India 90

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

It started in college when I started my own music marketing and production company. It’s a simple product, maybe many of you are familiar with it already that makes it really easy to basically no longer pay your bills by check. This is because there are a myriad of loan products out there. My name is John Bates.

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

I just directly observed that the technology for doctors was really far from what they needed to operate at a high productivity level," he told me. I didn't realize the intersection of the funding team who's technical enough, was product driven enough, with intersection of the funders who are open to learning this new concept.

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Turkey Los Angeles California 60

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. Decentralized Internet — This is perhaps the most unsexy part of cryptocurrency but the one that most purists I follow on this topic are most excited about.

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Government Distribution Stock United States 280