Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 10, 2011

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MAY 4, 2011

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MAY 16, 2011

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Marketing 54

Marketing Social Media Software Review Small Business 54

The Equity Kicker

APRIL 15, 2015

This chart (which I saw on Broadstuff and was originally published in the Harvard Business Review ) is from audited company accounts following mergers and acquisitions: …we looked at the value of brands and customer relationships as revealed by M&A data covering over 6,000 mergers and acquisitions worldwide between 2003 and 2013.

Balance Sheet 60

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JUNE 16, 2011

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Reputation 61

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JUNE 14, 2011

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Software Review 64

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 25, 2013

The summer of 2003, I started an open-source (Drupal-based) project for the campaign (Deanspace), got a job in the campaign HQ in Burlington, VT, dropped out of school, and had about the most profound professional experience one could at age 19 in 2003. crickets*. What we are doing will look obvious in retrospect.

Vermont 165

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

To do this they have to accomplish five things; 1) get deal flow – via networking and legwork, they identify likely industries, companies and teams with the potential for rapid growth (less than 10 years), 2) evaluate those companies and teams on the basis of technology, market opportunity, and team.

Silicon Valley 217

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 16, 2011

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Customer 66

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MAY 10, 2011

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JUNE 9, 2011

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Social Media 59

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The company didn’t turn a profit until 2003, but by 2005 business was booming – Netflix was shipping out a million DVDs daily. After former CEO Steve Jobs departed the business in 1985, Apple entered a ten-year downward spiral as competitors' lower-priced products notably Microsoft Windows, dominated the personal computer market.

Entrepreneur 94

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Agile VC

JUNE 30, 2016

In fact it was marketed as “Auto-Pilot” and a Popular Science article from 1958 about the car carried the headline “Like it or not, the robots are slowly taking over a driver’s chores. In more recent decades, additional technology has come to market to assist drivers. DARPA’s Robotic Cars to Today.

Virginia 100

Virginia Acquisition California Global 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. He later changed the name to Facebook.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

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Web 47

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

We looked at the companies in New England (call them "Boston and surrounding") that had exited in the last 10 years (2003-2013) with greater than $500 million in market valuation. In the case of public companies, we valued the companies at the market close of 11/15/13. 2004), Kayak ($1.8B/2004) 2004) and Fleetmatics ($1.4B/2004),

Boston 55

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

After doing some market research, I realized that there was a market for the handcrafted greeting cards that I make, and in September 2019, MsCraftprincess Designs was formed. I got my start when I was young—as an eBay Powerseller—and I eventually moved on to building a thriving marketing agency. Photo Credit: Daniel Javor.

Entrepreneur 133

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

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Small Business 41

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again.

Entrepreneur 111

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thebarefootvc

MAY 8, 2012

The best VCs are the ones that balance their optimism, vision and enthusiasm for startups with realism based on very real constraints (the primary one being his/her own time, but also includes market development and exit timing). Too many pivots, and you can lose the market opportunity, even with the greatest idea.

Venture Capital 78

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike believes the reason AltaVista didn’t become Google ( despite their market leadership position ) was because they didn’t focus on search. They sold in December 2007, but he started selling Quigo in 2004. Part 1/3 of Interview: The Beginnings of Mike’s Entrepreneurial Journey [ Minutes: start – 13 ]. were doing.

Semantic 302

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. He later changed the name to Facebook.

Initial Public Offering 297

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. He later changed the name to Facebook.

Initial Public Offering 148

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Shutterstock is in a competitive market, but we have the most traffic and the most usage, meaning that we can run more tests (achieve significance sooner) and learn faster than our competitors. There are 5-10 customers in our office (or remote) per week for developers, product owners and marketers to speak to and validate learning.

Lean 167

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 18, 2011

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Small Business 77

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

It was started in 2004 and it has since supported a lot of research programs devoted to studying diseases, searching for cures (malaria, Ebola, TB, Zika, cancer, muscular dystrophy, AIDS), and solving humanitarian problems like clean water, clean energy, developing more nutritious rice, and climate modelling in Africa.

Search 179

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 21, 2011

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Marketing 69

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MAY 24, 2011

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Mobile 58

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JUNE 13, 2011

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Small Business 72

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JUNE 23, 2011

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Small Business 69

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 15, 2013

To give you an example of that noise, brands, social networks and other organizations sent a record number of marketing messages in 2012, up 19% on 2011. Email is getting pretty good as a marketing channel. One new and free solution is theSwizzle , which was designed for the mutual benefit of consumers and marketers alike.

Email 145

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

I was reading an article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. He later changed the name to Facebook.

Entrepreneur 263

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 2, 2014

It''s easy to be right about market predictions eventually. My godfather got me IBM stock right after that, so that''s how I knew that a stock market and investing existed. I started a business newspaper in 1998 in college covering the stock market and the economy. So thanks for playing Inception, Henry.

Venture Capital 110

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 22, 2011

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JUNE 17, 2011

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SMS 73

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MAY 16, 2011

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Small Business 64

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 13, 2011

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Small Business 53

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