Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

Cameron is t he founder of the COO Alliance, the World’s Leading Network for Seconds in Command. One when scale started to kick in, when we hit the, you know, 200 employees at the head office, 2000 employees system wide, it started to get complex and a little bit outside of my sandbox. Marketing Podcast with Cameron Herold.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Order a reprint of this article now. The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. SMALL BUSINESS.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

JULY 10, 2012

with years and years of completely raving mad articles about software development, managing. I’m Joel Spolsky , co-founder of Fog Creek Software , a New York company that proves that. I’m also the co-founder of Stack Overflow. © 2000-2012 Joel Spolsky. You’re reading Joel on Software , stuffed.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. Here’s the link to the Valleywag teaser article (they have since purged the full article). I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

In the mid-1990s, a good friend of mine, Gene Kim (founder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails: A Business Novel ) and I were in graduate school together in the Computer Science program at the University of Arizona. The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000. How To Do It.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 10, 2013

He is also the co-founder of Idea.me, Sauber Energy, and the LAB Miami. Rather than read news articles to formulate ideas for your next company, I encourage any budding Latin American entrepreneur to get on Wikipedia. For the purposes of this article, we will consider the “North” as U.S. In 2000, the U.S.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Order a reprint of this article now. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc.,

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

I was lucky to sign on as advisor and investor the founder of a very high-profile consumer Internet site who happens to also be a former engineer, who I will call Richard. To sum up, heres what I would do again as a non-technical founder looking for a technical co-founder or CTO.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 15, 2020

- This article was co-authored with my colleagues Varun Purandare and Candice du Fretay and published initially on Tech.eu. The Accel 2020 Euroscape will be presented at SaaStock in October. Last year, we predicted it would take three years for Europe to mark its first Decacorn.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 A new version of the Joel Test (draft) (This article is a draft - your comments are especially welcome as I think through these issues. He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it. Please leave feedback!) Just my two cents on it.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Tim O’Reilly’s recent article, “ The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy ,” makes an impassioned argument that the ideas in our book, Blitzscaling , encourage entrepreneurs to behave in ways that are irresponsible or even dangerous in the pursuit of what he characterizes as “runaway growth.”

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Article: Behind Every Great Product. Normally I do this by explaining the critical responsibilities and the necessary character traits and skills, but in this article I will be taking a very different approach. The title is not important; the work they do is. I want to instead introduce you to real people.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 7, 2012

In addition to being a mom of four, Bailey is an author, hosts a radio talk show and multiple TV shows, runs a marketing business, and is the founder of BlueSuitMom.com and Smart Mom Solutions. Maria Bailey : Maria Bailey knows a thing or two about maintaining work/life balance.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

An article on growth and marketing in the middle of a crisis—the current one or any other—can seem tone deaf. The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. Tim Stewart, trsdigital. Image source ).

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

My services are primarily educational, such as online courses, coaching and articles to help educate them on marketing topics. I started a consulting firm called Global Marketing Resources, LLC in 2000 as source for additional income while I was a corporate executive. co” URL or name, Walker approached Yahoo! 27- Unusual way.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Is it $2000, $3000, five, six, or seven clients per month? When Steve Jobs was 12 years of age, he called the co-founder of Hewlett Packard, Bill, to ask for spare parts to build a frequency counter. Identify the magic number. I learned the great power of simply asking. Bill offered him an internship that summer.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Fortune published an article titled , Conventional Wisdom Says, 90% of Startups Fail. After CB Insights’ investigation yielded such an alarming figure of failure, the company decided to compile more than 100 post mortem letters from different startup founders to discover the reason for the failures. Data Says Otherwise.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2013

The good news for Techcrunch readers: Every major study conducted to date has placed angel investors’ IRR between 18 and 38 percent, as summarized by my Partner John Frankel and Professor Robert Wiltbank in prior Techcrunch articles. All exits occurred between 1990 and 2007—the vast majority after 2000.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

I've known Brian Chesky, Co-Founder, CEO and Head of Community at Airbnb for a long time. I think every founder, every CEO, every leader, could learn something, could take heart from Brian's example and I hope they will. Brian Chesky : I am Brian Chesky, co-founder, CEO, and head of community at Airbnb.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

declined Microsoft’s offer (summer 2000) to be the first enterprise software company with a.NET product (a Microsoft employee came back from a follow-up meeting with Allen and said “He reminds me of a lot of CEOs of companies that we’ve worked with… that have gone bankrupt.”). During this year they.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Diverse search results include stream updates, blog posts, news articles, photos, videos (versus Twitter/FaceBook1 only). Founded in April/May 2010 by Diego Berdakin (Ex-Slingshot Labs) and Josh Berman (Ex-Slingshot Labs, MySpace Co-founder) in Santa Monica, CA. Founded in 2000 in New Brunswick, NJ. 406 Ventures.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I soon found that yoga taught me 2000-year-old strategies, to be more present with my kids, be more patient with my family and feel more calm and energized at the same time! I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. So I cut the corporate cord and co-founded Finespun Clothing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

No big shocker since it is co-founded by Biz Stone and Adam Ruegel. Investors are the “who’s who” including: Steve Case, Ron Conway, Jack Dorsey, Dave Morin, Betaworks, Founder Collective, AOL Ventures. - $1 million seed round. TechCrunch article. Private, flash sales site focused on apparel goods (women, men and children).

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Over the weekend, I read Sarah Lacy’s PandoDaily article that the VC shakeout is taking too long. In the mid 2000′s VC’s were largely prospering. For those who aren’t familiar, Mobius was a VC fund with offices in Silicon Valley and Boulder CO and at it’s peak Mobius had $2B+ under management.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Carmine Gallo (04:08): I, If you want to have a conversation on the role of Amazon in e-commerce or retail, there are plenty of books and articles on that subject. And a lot of experts and a lot of CEOs and company founders tell me that those shareholder letters were models of simplicity, which kinda led me in that direction.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? However, one of my co-founders doesn’t seem to be as motivated as the rest of us. As founders invest massive amounts of time into their start-up, how critical is it for them to come out of their “hermit caves” and network?

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

The kinds of places where you have to sign an NDA when you walk in the lobby… When I lived and worked in the bay area (2000-2005) virtually all the startups were down on the peninsula somewhere. Thanks Lee, this was an interesting read, here’s a recent article I read that expands on my generation’s desire to be in cities.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

- This article was co-authored with my colleagues Varun Purandare and Candice du Fretay and published initially on Tech.eu. You’ll also find the video recording of the presentation at the end of this article and t he slides are available here. The 2020 Accel Euroscape was unveiled earlier today at SaaStockEMEA.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

This line in your article stood out to me: "Much of what makes the USA, and Silicon Valley in particular, such a great place to start a company is the result of good government policy." Since 2000 we have passed a number of laws and regulations that are killing innovation in the US. September 10, 2009 4:37 AM Dale B.

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Spencer Fry

APRIL 17, 2017

I was known as "the bootstrapper" for years and have written numerous articles about it, spoken on panels, and more, but 2017 presents a whole new set of challenges. Long story short, it’s just not 2000's anymore. As a bootstrapped startup, the only accountability you have is to yourself and to your co-founder if you have one.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2016

My co-founders and I started eVestment for two primary reasons. We founded the company in 2000 and have since continued to grow our client base and revenues and, at the same time, have been named to a lot of ‘best places to work’ lists, including the big one, Fortune’s. 10 – Changing Investments.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Joel on Software Fog Creek Compensation by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 30, 2000 At Fog Creek Software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder. I’m also the co-founder of Stack Overflow. © 2000-2010 Joel Spolsky. About the author.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

How much would an extra $1000 or $2000 per month help during that time? It’s hard to fire a developer with 10,000 podcast listeners, not because she might say bad things about the company, but because co-workers look up to her as an alpha-geek. The average U.S. Fire her and morale will take a big hit. at 11:31 am [.]

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

This helps to co-opt some security researchers so that they e.g. get in touch with you about the problem prior to just going ahead an exploiting it. Want more great articles? Patrick is the founder of Kalzumeus Software. First startup I worked at was in 2000, I found a compromised system and recommended exactly the above.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 12, 2012

This post is a translation of the article: « Pigeons » : le cri d'alarme d'un fonds américain published on LaTribune (12/10/2012) and is a response to the proposed tax law proposed by the government of Francois Hollande, suggesting to tax all capital gain at the same level than salaries or 60%. Why not take a chance?

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Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 19, 2012

While people in the article claim ‘this time is different, I am not so sure. (I “The investing community believes that the Internet is hitting edu­cation, that education is having its Internet moment,” said Jose Ferreira, founder of the interactive-learning company Knewton.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 12, 2020

So for other companies, especially for this next generation of founders who look up to you and what you have accomplished here, what do you want them to take away from your example here? And what's your vision for what this new community of founders and leaders might build when we get to the new normal? What are your values?

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