Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2023

Tiffani emphasizes the need for a balanced approach to company strategy that involves all stakeholders, including IT, Marketing, Sales, Operations, and HR. 15:11] Where does employer branding fit into the conversation of employee experience? [17:18] So how does that fit into the conversation of employee experience? That's right.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 20, 2019

I’ve had this come up in a number of conversations in the past few years with other entrepreneurs, especially ones who have either gone through a transition in their company or are burned out and exhausted from the intensity of their work. I finally realized a limit, and choose to abandon my operating roles and just be an investor.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 12, 2017

That’s where web accessibility comes in, opening you up to conversion opportunities you didn’t even know you were missing out on. You’re not senselessly throwing away potential conversions from millions and millions of people. Make Web pages appear and operate in predictable ways. What is web accessibility?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

One of things I’ve loved the most about doing now 11 weeks of This Week in VC is a chance to have an hour-long recorded conversation with investors. This lasted from about 2001-2004. Founded in Sunnyvale, CA in 2001. But you can see & hear the entire interview well and I think it will be well worth your while.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

Valuations in startups increased dramatically during the Dot Com boom and then both valuations and the availability of investment capital nationally collapsed in 2001 with the Dot Com bust and 9/11. But the timing of the launch of these new funds almost assured their failure regardless of their investing acumen.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Think about the tension between media companies and cable operators like last year when Viacom threatened to pull Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, BET, etc. This is an age-old marketplace tension where leverage often determines the value captured. This is true whether it’s physical products or media products. from Charter’s subscribers.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

This conversation seems to come up very frequently these days both with portfolio companies and with entrepreneurs just looking for mentorship. Every conversation about fund raising should start with what your current operational needs are and the stage of your business. I only know that … time is the enemy of all deals.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

By this time, Erin had already spent 4 years in operations at a startup that was in skyrocket growth mode, so she knew her knowledge in scaling operations was as valuable as this idea; she became my co-founder. After retiring in 2001, I also joined a ladies networking group, On Purpose Networking for Women (OPN).

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2018

I hope you’ll enjoy the conversation as much as I did. In 2001, I moved from Citibank to become the CMO of Morgan Stanley’s brokerage business, where I was tasked with modernizing and reviving the brokerage business there. In fact, there's a term now, it's called, "OT," as in operations technology.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 1, 2016

You can operate during business hours, for folks who need someone to watch their dog while at work, or you can look after dogs for people while they are out of town. Do you have a car (more specifically, a 4-door sedan, year 2001 or newer )? In-home dog care. Driving for Uber. Language teaching and practice.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 17, 2013

After I graduated in 2001, I remember it seeming impossible to feel the same way about living in New York City. At this stage of my career, I don''t get nearly as much out of going to a huge blowout event as I get when I have a great conversation with just a handful of people. That''s important for one guy with a tiny fund.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

We’ll have a fun conversation over the next 40-45 minutes. So this has always been our most significant focus area, whether in 2022, 2021, or 2001. . In your mind, what is different in the way companies need to operate in that post-unicorn stage? . I enjoyed this conversation. . Jonathan Siddharth . Welcome, David.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

When it launched in 97 it was a DVD rental business whose only real value proposition was the mail-order element of its operation. The founders eventually created custom cereal boxes to raise funds so they could continue to operate. Whenever this conversation comes up, my answer is always Apple. Photo Credit: Deborah Sweeney.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

While watching this conversation, I realized that comedians worry about many of the same things that writers do. For the 0.0001 percent of you who have never operated a seat belt before, it works like this…”. 2001) iPod 1st generation. discussed the creative process of comedy. 10,000 songs in your pocket.”

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

How do you get your visitors to move beyond that starting point and into your conversion funnel? Get people off of the page and on to the next step in your conversion funnel. Watch your bounce rate climb and your conversion rate stall. What gives? First, What Are the Goals of a Homepage? Do visitors want it or need it?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 14, 2014

And during the conversation, there are also fewer arguments and misunderstandings. military’s Special Forces is the 12-person Operational Detachment. He has been a regular panelist on television’s Forbes on FOX since the show’s inception in 2001. If the mission is important enough, they’ll even do so at their own expense.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

Eric Friedman: This is a great segue to something I was thinking about in preparation for this conversation. Dan Kimerling: I think what separates Deciens from a lot of other VCs—and I hope this comes across in this conversation—is that Deciens is all about being very real. On Deciens’ Lean Operation. On Dan’s Favorite Books.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 5, 2018

You had people opening affiliates in their garage and really taking, it was kind of first time that, you know, we’re talking 2001, people are taking this information off of the internet and turning into these brick and mortar locations where people were working out. So, by nature it was wild west.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 22, 2013

Mashable named 2013 “The Year of Responsive Design” But is responsive web design actually the answer to boosting mobile conversions? For the first time since 2001, PC sales were lower that they were the previous year. The effect of responsive design on mobile conversions. Shopping on mobile devices can be a pain.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

Among her early investments are Lyft, TaskRabbit and Modcloth, which, as our recent conversation shows, are only part of the reason Forbes called her “the most powerful woman in startups.” The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. I've been in venture now twice.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2014

No company survives solely based on its marketing, its technology, its operations, or any other factor. In “ The Soft Edge “, I shared about my conversations with Tony Fadell, CEO of Nest Labs. Encourage these difficult conversations. The company functions as a whole. It might even feel dysfunctional.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Netscape and Opsware, which he helped found, went public with single-class share structures in 1995 and 2001, respectively. In just a year of operations, Fab has signed up nearly 5 million members, sold 1.8 There are too many ways to converse, each of us has a favored method, and no one wants to compromise.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 12, 2020

In the second half of my conversation with Brian Chesky, we moved on from the pre-pandemic world and how he and Airbnb were coping with our rapidly changing reality. You can listen to our conversation on Apple podcasts , Google podcasts , or wherever you like to download. And in some of these conversations, we've talked about why.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

That was until my husband’s best friend Mike came over and joined the conversation. When I actually started my PR firm in 2001, I had the name and the LLC already, so that’s what I went with, and in 2009 we rebranded to simply be The Eisen Agency. He immediately insisted that groat was not a very appetizing name.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 23, 2017

He is a long time featured keynote speaker for things such as search engine optimization and conversion rate optimization, and I’ve had him on the show a couple of times, some of you may recall waiting for your cat to bark… maybe a call to action definitely [buyer legends 00:53] and a number of other books.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

net is the only framework in which you can build an app for all the major mobile operating systems (iphone, android, wp7). Hiring manager: If one has a lot of experience with large building cranes and operations, the hiring manager rules them out. It’s an *freaking open source*.net net implementation. Checkout [link].net

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Well, the research shows that it’s really not a “write a plan” or “don’t write a plan” conversation. These companies don’t always call their plans “business plans” but instead often refer to things like strategic plans, growth plans, and operational plans. Regardless of the name, it’s all forward-looking planning. 3 Upton, N.,

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

To learn more about the history of Bad Robot, listen to Hoffman and Abrams’ conversation on the episode “Make Room for Magic” on the Masters of Scale podcast.). s creations, there [is] a lot of overlap between how he and people in his world operate, and how those of us in the tech ecosystem do. It’s becoming one conversation.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005). I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru. Wasn’t Jonah worried about “platform risks?”

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