Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 30, 2024

Key Takeaways Chris Martinez’s journey underscores the importance of strategic pivots, understanding customer needs, leveraging technology, building a strong team, and continuous learning. By pivoting to a specialized niche, he aligned his services with client demands, enhancing efficiency and scalability through technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

One would think entrepreneurs would never want less available cash – until such time as their competitors ridiculously and unnecessarily all raise $50 million in the name of a “land grab” thus making it much harder for your totally reasonable company to attract investors. Year in, year out.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

Bill Gates once famously said that people tend to overestimate the impact of technology in the 1-year timeframe and underestimate its impact in the 10-year timeframe. I tend not to go into heat when I hear the latest buzz on the tech blogs about the latest gadgets. Their first batch of shipping is due out in the next few weeks.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2 preamble issues having read the comments on TC today: 1: I know that the prices of startup companies is much great in Silicon Valley than in smaller towns / less tech focused areas in the US and the US prices higher than many foreign markets. I saw this kind of pricing when I first entered the VC market in 2007. It was early 2000.

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dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

From time to time, Ill address information technology, and how it impacts business and daily life. Daddy, What Does a Chief Technology Officer Do? should rest with a COO; the CTO is a research and ad tech discipline in the strategic planning domain. Other firms may shy away from the uncontrolled side of these technologies.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards recognize some of the most exciting tech developments in the connected world. The annual Interactive Festival awards program began in 1997 as the Texas Interactive Media Achievement Awards, and was re-named the SXSW Web Awards the following year. How long has this event been going on?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

consumer companies were enhanced because they coincided with hardware that allowed us to capture more content instantly – namely images and video. Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. But the masses didn’t want to blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

Some wait 5-7 years but usually this is because it’s proving more difficult to raise a new fund due to market conditions or the lack of returns in their current fund. If you imagine that they did most of their initial investments between 2002-2007 then it’s been 3 years of mostly doing follow-on investments in those old deals.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

A Harvard Business Review (HBR) study of 4,700 public companies looked at the three years before, during, and after recessions. can introduce a ‘fighter brand,’ a lower-priced version of the premium offering sold under a different name and backed by minimal advertising.” Premium-brand market leaders [.] Image source ).

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Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

Despite Kenya has been named as the fasted growing payments market in Africa, there is still a lot to be done to develop the local business angel community. The founding of M-Pesa in 2007 inspired many young people to undertake entrepreneurial risks. Hersman also co-founded Ushahidi, an open source software firm.

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Diego Basch

AUGUST 14, 2013

A naive search engine built using the Common Crawl data on top of 1990s technology would feel clunky and tedious, like riding a horse for a ten-mile commute. If you and I start typing a first name (J-o-h), odds are it will show us people we know named John, along with their pictures. Google knows who you are.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

In the days following the announcement, almost every technology publication, blogger, and influencer posted some kind of content related to the new iPhone. The phone’s release took over the news cycle again 9 days later, with reviews, guides, and commentary dominating the front page of most news outlets and technology websites.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

In the days following the announcement, almost every technology publication, blogger, and influencer posted some kind of content related to the new iPhone. The phone’s release took over the news cycle again 9 days later, with reviews, guides, and commentary dominating the front page of most news outlets and technology websites.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

In the days following the announcement, almost every technology publication, blogger, and influencer posted some kind of content related to the new iPhone. The phone’s release took over the news cycle again 9 days later, with reviews, guides, and commentary dominating the front page of most news outlets and technology websites.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 20, 2017

The field uses the broader term “gender” rather than “female” because, as the Stanford Social Innovation Review states, “Using ‘gender’ brings both men and women into the conversation. The movement’s objective is to look at the entire financial and social system, not just at women.”

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

Given the lag in GAAP revenue recognition, the Q4 09 revenues are indicating an increased productivity in Q3 2009 (we have unfortunately to look backward due to the GAAP revenue recognition model), but the trend is very encouraging. You named 3 in your post, but what are the 10 others? In search of Europe's next tech stars.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2017

After each negotiation meeting – even if you didn’t reach a deal and need to continue negotiating – verbally review the points covered and all areas of agreement and remaining areas of disagreement. Don’t just give up those points outright before you begin – but do take note of them and concede them as you negotiate.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Technology | Thursdays. Naming a Business. TECHNOLOGY. Technology. But with the help of Grahams company, which specializes in creating tech systems for start-ups, Jumpstart grew to more than $50 million in revenue--enough to make it an attractive acquisition for media conglomerate Hachette Filipacchi. Newsletters.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Two is it can seem overwhelming and highly technical. It's about buying smarter tech. You already buy this tech find tools that are getting better and making you better at your job. You know, should we get on Twitter, this, you know, circa 2007 or something like that.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

HomeAway is another one of our five tech IPOs in the last five years. Instead of crying in their beers about it, Cotter and Tom Ball at Austin Ventures decided what to do next and came up with Small Ponds, which later became Whale Shark Media and then RetailMeNot (named after its largest digital property). No matter the name?—?the

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

You have been 2,950 to visit the site in 2007 and you looked at 3,920 pages. Looking back at 2007, I wanted to give a quick overview of the investments I have been involved with, since I have not blogged about any of them yet. This has proven to be true in 2007 and we will see how resilient these trends are in a recession.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

The Venture Capital industry as a whole does a terrible job of giving things the right name and so we end up keeping the same name, but changing the meaning out from under it. There is too much capital coming into tech investing. Tech companies generate a lot of buzz. Yes, history is repeating itself!).

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 4, 2011

When I launched Blog Mastermind in 2007 I intended to create a course that would guide beginners through a process of learning how to build and eventually profit from a successful blog. It is a good domain name, with good cadence, and a very clear message about what the site is about, given the plans I had for it.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

My name is Bryan Clark and I am a professional writer and blog editor in the tech, entrepreneurship, finance and digital lifestyle fields. I have written before for Entrepreneurs Journey in 2007 and I’m happy to say I am back with a new column starting today. He agreed, and even complimented me on my diligence.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Monday, February 12, 2007. The name of the bird is PiccoZ. In search of Europe's next tech stars. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. ▼ 2007. (10). Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. My Yelp reviews. Get your own helicopter for $50! Our office is full of them!

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

My name is Bryan Clark and I am a professional writer and blog editor in the tech, entrepreneurship, finance and digital lifestyle fields. I have written before for Entrepreneurs Journey in 2007 and I’m happy to say I am back with a new column starting today. He agreed, and even complimented me on my diligence.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 20, 2023

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! The MarTech Podcast share stories from world-class marketers who use technology to generate growth and achieve business and career success. So in 2007, they had no position in consumer finance. And the four examples I give that they did from 2007 to 2015 were all failures.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. businessname #business #entrepreneur #startup #name #compilation #instagram #ceoblognation #blog #newblog #blogpost #livetoday.

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Cracking the Code

APRIL 18, 2007

Wednesday, April 18, 2007. In search of Europe's next tech stars. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. ▼ 2007. (10). Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. My Yelp reviews. Cracking The Code. Dont click on this link! Devils link.it will hurt your productivity seriously!

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Its great that were in such a fertile phase for the tech industry that lots of people have new ideas, and Im very flattered that people value my input or ideas enough to want to share their projects with me. I have to pay a lawyer to review a document without having any idea why Im making that investment. But signing an NDA ?

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aweissman.com

APRIL 6, 2008

peering agreements), and by technical specifications or protocols that describe how to exchange data over the network. As of December 30, 2007, 1.319 billion people use the Internet according to Internet World Stats. Writing in the Harvard International Review, philosopher N.J. .–based April 14, 2008 7:34 AM. Newer Post.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Not unless you’re Elon Musk and Governor Abbott has a smile as wide as the Texas Panhandle or you’re Joe Rogan and every tech bro in Austin is so pumped to point to your move (and Tim Ferriss’ move) here as some kind of stamp of approval that they never needed Silicon Valley. Truth be told, if I didn’t welcome you, it’s possible no one would.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 26, 2020

The name of the last part? First, just to provide a foundation here, Bazaarvoice was named after Chapter 4 of “The Cluetrain Manifesto” (available for free online), “ Markets Are Conversations ”. Second, when Brant and I founded Bazaarvoice there were only three retailers in the US with customer reviews.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Forbes Magazine named her number one woman for entrepreneurs to follow on Twitter and she hosts hashtag small biz chat Wednesdays on Twitter from 8 to 9pm eastern time for emerging entrepreneurs. I want to tell you that I could not come up with anything as cool as the hedgehog concept, so I named my system after myself, right.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

One startup I joined was very proud that they had been ‘accepted’ as a client by a prestigious Silicon Valley law firm whose name rhymes with a type of pasta (they are lawyers after all, so I have to be careful here…). The firm, (did I mention that the name rhymes with a type of pasta?) [link] Roping in the Legal Eagles | infoChachkie. [.]

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aweissman.com

JULY 31, 2007

Jul 31, 2007. It is not the time sink of the deal and diligence process, but maybe the lack of quality deal flow, too much LP money in the system, everyone wanting in on the Internet boom (again!), skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Venture Capital. at 2:22 PM. Newer Post. Older Post.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You John Greathouse – Posted in: Entrepreneur , Strategic Planning. With a name like Smucker’s, it has to be good.” I would think that with a name like Smucker’s it has to be a vile disease or possibly a large, poisonous, South American leech.

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