Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

Key Takeaway: The Chief Operating Officer is the second in command to the CEO – they’re the go-to person that should be running the business. Questions I ask Cameron Herold: [2:27] Are there some things in those early days of figuring operations out that really stuck with you? [3:38] Cameron Herold (02:35): Uh, something changed.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 10, 2011

Just so we’re clear, I don’t receive anything for promoting this tool, I just think it’s the right one for this use.) Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : As the importance of Facebook as small business marketi. 5 Steps to Successful Fac. Currently Facebook boasts somewhere in excess of 400 mi.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

No more 60 hour weeks at a job where the owners apparently were unable to run a successful operation. During this journey in building (recruiting, hiring, training and managing) e-commerce teams I realized how other e-commerce business owners were struggling to fulfill their marketing needs. No hassles. No regrets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. You rarely hear about the owners who took out second mortgages to make payroll or to hire a salesperson.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. You rarely hear about the owners who took out second mortgages to make payroll or to hire a salesperson.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. Oblong, Minority Report, and the rise of Spatial Operating Systems. And then was hired by Stephen Spielberg for Minority Report. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I National Venture Capital Group endorsed it. Some Angel groups endorse it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. You rarely hear about the owners who took out second mortgages to make payroll or to hire a salesperson.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. You rarely hear about the owners who took out second mortgages to make payroll or to hire a salesperson.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2018

Some real-life examples of this include: Martha Stewart, whose company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, suffered and never fully recovered after she was found guilty in 2004 of charges related to insider trading. So how you conduct yourself and what you say — online and offline — will reflect on your brand.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. It’s clear that AngelList wants to help bring much of the transactional conversations and introductions that happen at the early stage of hiring and fundraising via word of mouth or in meetings online.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 22, 2006

As I started thinking about his question, I remember what it was like setting up our office in 1998 and the headaches and cost of buying a Nortel phone system and phones and hiring a Microsoft networking expert to get our office set up for file sharing, back up, and email. What a nightmare!

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

One of the earliest and most well-known of the Micro-VC funds was First Round Capital , founded in 2004 by Josh Kopelman , a former entrepreneur who sold Half.com to eBay in 2000. They are operators, through and through. Investing in Non-Investment: The “FULL SERVICE” VC.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. You rarely hear about the owners who took out second mortgages to make payroll or to hire a salesperson.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 5, 2013

You can hire me to come check out how you’re doing, or you can get a start on it yourself. That may have been fine in 2004, but a 36 hour response time is something like a hundred and eighty-nine Internet years. To be blunt, your business will soon be roadkill if you don’t match customers’ expectations of what “timeliness” means.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 13, 2011

Design and Operate a Referral System – part 2 Posted by : John Jantsch on Jun 13, 2011 | 5:54 am Categories : AMEX OpenForum , Marketing Strategy Tags : AMEX OPEN , New York Times Popular Posts Adding the Facebook Like. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : 5 Steps to Successful Fac.

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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.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 28, 2011

If a potential buyer can see how they too could operate your marketing system, even after you the owner is long gone, you’ll build value. Less dependent on you Done right, marketing builds the kind of repeatable momentum that can be documented and taught like a system. Buying a strong brand creates an entirely different set of math.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The early history of MySpace is inextricably intertwined with that of Intermix, a small-cap publicly traded Internet company in Los Angeles where I worked as corporate counsel from 2004-06. Intermix was in a turnaround situation when I arrived in mid-2004, having been delisted from Nasdaq and nearly bankrupt. of MySpace, Inc.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 26, 2011

link] Google Search Shortcuts – Google has a list of operators that you can use to do customer searches that will turn up lots of information on sites you are analyzing. link] SEOBook Toolbar – The SEOBook toolbar is a very robust tool that offers a full suite of stats right in your browser.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

It was fall 2004, and the presidential election was in full swing. Hopefully that will take some of the sting out of the fact that you had to engage in a little trickery. To motivate you to give this a try, let me tell you a story from the early days of IMVU. Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you?

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 24, 2018

At Mother Erth we’ve found that by being thoughtful about how we produce our products and who we choose to hire we are able to have a significant social impact without significantly increasing our production costs. In our case, our products are handmade, and we hire only artisan mothers in developing countries in their creation.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

My original post was directed at hiring managers. It said that I didn’t believe it was a good idea to hire job hoppers. My view still stands – for many hiring managers a large factor in looking through resumes of somebody who is 30+ and has never worked somewhere for more than 18 months will be the job hopping element.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 13, 2020

In 2004 I was a part-time flight attendant with a 10-year-old son living in Los Angeles. in December of 2004 with just our one little product, and by the end of 2005 we had sold 1 million Finders Key Purse(r). 23- Help businesses with compliance operations. So, I decided to build the solution myself. 12- I needed to pay my rent!

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Founded in 2004, it has grown in leaps and bounds along with NYC’s tech sector. West Coast VC’s are on monthly flights to NYC from SFO, Facebook announced an engineering office in NYC, Twitter established operations here, eBay bought Hunch and will hire 200 people in NYC (their new east coast HQ)….the

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Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Well, for starters I don’t believe there was the ubiquity of broadband that existed in 2004-2005. The first set of folks usually set the culture and cadence of the entire operation. Who are the next 5 hires you are going to make if this funding comes through? Do what you are doing faster/slower? why/why not?

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

A key performance indicator (KPI) is a quantifiable activity used to measure how a key aspect of your business is operating or how much volume it’s receiving. Hire a data scientist! The folks over at Kissmetrics were modeling the LTV of the average Starbucks customer, using data from 2004-2012. Predictive LTV model.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

The founder of early internet startup Freeloader (acquired for $38 million in 1996) and anti-spam company Brightmail (acquired for $370 million in 2004), Paul went on to pioneer the ride-hailing space. The second is a lack of operational scalability. Blitzscaling requires building a substantial organization at an abnormally rapid pace.

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

If someone hired you, would you have your lawyer look over the NDA? The trick worked and the hyper-sophisticated AC system hummed into operation, but he was still challenged. These are obvious in retrospect, but some things you have to learn the hard way. dan.sanderson. | May 8, 2010 12:38 PM. hashimwarren. | May 9, 2010 1:10 AM.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

Marcel is the CEO & Co-Founder of Parakeeto, a company dedicated to helping agencies measure and improve their profitability by streamlining their operations and reporting systems. I think one of the things that often gets overlooked in the agency space is really deeply understanding the job the agencies being hired to do.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

A while ago, an HBR study famously claimed that a 1% improvement in price would increase operating profit by 11%, making it the most effective thing you can tweak for increased business performance. When it comes to subscription product pricing, you’re not just guessing…are you? Pricing is important. Does it work with SaaS?

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Kaufer originally hired writers to product professional reviews and allowed user reviews on a whim. The company agreed to be acquired by Expedia/IAC in 2004 for $210 million in cash, a huge win for all, particularly given their amazing capital efficiency: they had only raised $4 million in venture capital.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 30, 2010

The CEO must set the context that every employee operates within. In addition, executing well requires a broad set of operational skills. The CEO is responsible for the executive team plus the fundamental interview and hiring processes for all employees. The Strategy and the Story. Is the CEO building a world-class team?

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Like Edison and the lightbulb, like Gates and the pc operating system, I would launch a revolution that would transform society while bringing me wealth and fame. Post-Mortem Title : My eHarmony for Hiring Failure. – made compromises in early hiring decisions – choose expediency over talent/competency.

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www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

They also want to avoid hiring extra resources that increase the cost of the finished goods unless absolutely necessary. … In our study, FDC [artillery Fire Direction Center — ER ] teams from the 82nd Airborne division were tested during simulated continuous combat operations lasting 36 hours.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

In 2004 I began blogging. As I said, I have a very small operation and I’m able to make much more than the average person. The deal went through, I bought the website, and eventually hired a team of writers. What you can do with a blog that’s got a little bit of traction and a little bit of traffic is hire a team of volunteers.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 23, 2011

The folks at Eloqua and JESS3 created a very useful infographic that helps visually illustrate this total body of work strategy and also sheds a light on the various marketing purposes of every type of content, and how to look at content creation from an operational viewpoint. Note: There have been some updates since I published th.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., "Were just getting more light on the entrepreneurial process," he says. Comcast Corp.,

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