Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 18, 2011

Some might go as far as to suggest content marketing has become the most effective way to build a business. Filtering and aggregating content produced by others is not only a great service, it’s a great differentiator.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 24, 2018

Chart Analysis Looking for some expert insight into the cryptocurrency market? There’s loads of useful information here from people who have been in your shoes before and come to learn how the markets work. Community Automation Every blockchain company needs a place to share transparent information with their community.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

A marketing/PR agency may have a flashy portfolio that impresses you with their big name clients, but for a startup or small business, paying thousands each month to such an agency isn’t going to be good bang for your (limited) buck. Traditional distribution services no longer work. Expensive Agencies. Press Release Wires.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 2, 2013

Every business does basically four things: Make stuff – This might mean an actual product, but it also includes making a determination about what markets to enter and how to innovate. Market stuff – Whatever the business is meant to do it can’t survive long unless people know about, understand it and are motivated to buy from it.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 6, 2012

Chris Anderson wrote a really influential book some years ago called “ The Long Tail ” that shaped how many people think about emerging Internet markets. At the left of the graph is the “head end” of the market, where the “hits” are produced for mass audiences. Why is that? Even a hundred.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 13, 2018

I went on the popular Facebook group “Austin Startups” and posted a link to my availability for virtual investor office hours on a first-come, first-serve basis from the broader community. Having said all that, who knows when this bubble will end and I’m still interested in meeting entrepreneurs with ambitious ideas around blockchain.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

Masterful design, branding and marketing. As a Digital Marketing Evangelist you can imagine how much that pains me. Or maybe information about how Ragu farmers support local communities. by creating a great experience, reassuring me with clear pricing, and they won't even have to pay a bounty to their aggregators!

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 6, 2013

You either took your stuff on the road and sold it door to door or you showed up somewhere near the center of town and rented a stall in the market or bazaar. eBay aggregated buyers and sellers of stuff, mostly stuff in the attic and garage, and took a fee on the sale. photo credit: Bert Kaufmann via photopin cc.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2020

On top of that, we built solutions, training, programs, and routes to market by solving each problem we faced and our fellow food entrepreneurs faced. We currently operate a large 17,000 square foot facility, 5 stores to sell products in, and a distribution business to sell the product to retailers. 7- Save people money.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

The Data Warehouse market is typically estimated at $30 B in annual revenue and the big data components, where the largest need for performance gains resides, is growing at double digit rates. BlazingDB takes the concept of community further by creating an extremely diverse and inclusive work environment and has taken the 1% pledge.

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Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Relatively quickly the market became saturated with over 100 products and services claiming a unique capability for tracking and reporting on social media mentions and brand activity in social channels. These post level items are aggregated into a dashboard view and measurements of sentiment, trending, and relative status are calculated.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 29, 2012

Facebook’s success is largely based on its ability to aggregate the biggest audience on the internet and understand and monetize that audience. From the distributed nature of its product teams, to its maniacal focus on valuing engineers, to its free-market-like prioritization of resources and products, to 20% time, etc etc.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. 2) Market .

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

A lot of folks treat it as a synonym for online marketing. I was hired to level-up the marketing team. The team started as all marketers focused on lead generation. Every team included a mix of designers, engineers, marketers, and copywriters. Design, Product, Marketing, and Sales get pissed that you’re not in sync.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 20, 2013

Here’s a selection of the 20-odd startups at Maker Faire: SeeedStudio, an “open hardware company develops and brings to market innovative and cost-effective prototyping solutions for hobbyists and aspiring inventors.”. It is still unclear how much capital these businesses will require or what the exit market will be like.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

That then takes us down the very best way to answer that question, to use the five-step process to build out the Digital Marketing and Measurement Model. For example, your company is shifting aggressively into leveraging Machine-Learning in your marketing strategies and hence have made a shift to Smart Display Campaigns a huge priority.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2013

Content marketing is all the rage, as you are well aware of. The challenge is what to produce, what content to market? For www.ti.com the content clusters might be: Products, Applications, Tools & Software, Support, Community, Sample & Buy etc. SEO, PPC, Mobile marketing, will return Ad Group ideas and Keyword ideas.

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View from Seed

JUNE 22, 2016

The most prolific type of drone company right now are these consultancy-type businesses that range all the way from two guys who are ex-fighter pilots who love to fly drones and get commissioned to do various things with them up to a large-scale aggregation of drone service providers. What I really could use is a watchdog drone.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

First, we asked VCs about their motivations for improving their technology stack (multiple replies were possible in all questions): What tools do VCs use to market their fund? Creating content and sending it out via newsletters has been one of the most popular ways for VC funds to market themselves. 8% replied that they used Medium.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 29, 2020

And as the crypto market expanded, we have seen permissionless innovation really take off. Lending protocol Compound approved a proposal to distribute COMP tokens to regular borrowers and lenders on the platform, basically rewarding the participants of the platform with a stake in the protocol (like a gigantic loyalty program).

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

healthcare market is the least customer centric of any customer service industry. One overt sign of a lack of traditional market forces is any industry where basic customer service is not a requirement to stay in business. industries, once subject to far less competition, have been forced by the market to learn a new reality.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. So you developed a product for the mommy community? Blog to your community.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

They need to reduce volatility, be more bearish on what might happen, and also prioritize their obligations towards their employees, communities and themselves as people. (29:24) What have you noticed in that kind of the startup community's ability to move fast and kind of double down on this? ER : That makes a lot of sense.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

This will continue while we’re in a tech bull market and I predict will wane when we’re not. I believe some VCs have entered the early-stage market as simply an option on future financing rounds. In a bull market many players see drift in their activities. The LP Community Hasn’t Yet Caught Up.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

The UK is Israel’s second largest export market following the US, but Israeli startups often ‘forget Europe’ when it comes to Internationalizing their product. Brandsforce is a plug & play social media marketing platform that generates conversations, engagements and measurable actions on social networks.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Many companies that failed started during the recent financial crisis (and continues to suffer through), and some startups highlighted the larger market negativity as a reason for their ultimate demise. If there is no money out there for your idea, reassess whether there is a market for it, and reassess your approach. #16

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous…For All Involved. While not obvious on the surface, there has been a fundamental sea-change in the investment community that has made the incremental Unicorn investment a substantially more dangerous and complicated practice. Once more, the fantasy began to come apart.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Google buzz Advertise Network Blippr iPhone App Mashable France MashDeck Twitter App Mobile Site Social Media Events Twitter Guide Book Facebook Guide Book Partners App Development WordPress Expert Rackspace Hosting MaxCDN Content Delivery Dynect Managed DNS ConVerdge Communities About Us Submit a Tip!

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The “classic” idea of content marketing—cranking out SEO-focused articles, ranking for hundreds of keywords, generating visitors, leads, and paying customers—doesn’t work in all industries. In many ways, this approach is anathema to traditional content marketing. Create movement-first content to build credibility.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

A good mentor is someone who has been part of the startup community themselves – someone who has a realistic understanding of some of the basic dos and don’ts of starting up. I too am looking for someone to work with that knows the manufacturing and distribution end of a solid product. You don’t need many – one or two to begin.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

…podcasting is definitely worth considering throwing into the marketing mix. In 2013 Mazda started installing Stitcher – the second most popular podcast aggregator – in the actual dashboards of their cars. Grow a 100-person Elite Mastermind community. What Does This Mean For Me? So, How Do You Start A Podcast?

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

As an active member of the telecommunications and Internet community, Caruso will address the attendees about the virtues of starting a company in the Rocky Mountains. Clementine Arts markets the first full line of natural art supplies for children. . Clementine Arts markets the first full line of natural art supplies for children.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

As an active member of the telecommunications and Internet community, Caruso will address the attendees about the virtues of starting a company in the Rocky Mountains. Clementine Arts markets the first full line of natural art supplies for children. . Clementine Arts markets the first full line of natural art supplies for children.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2020

Another great example of linkable assets are pages that aggregate industry stats, like this one. For instance, here’s a post comparing PPC vs. SEO for startup marketing. You’ll also have to hope that you’re able to contact B2B marketers who understand why links matter, and you may be asked to provide something in return. (As

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VC Adventure

APRIL 19, 2020

– We need distribution mechanisms beyond the SBA (which is overwhelmed). Consider for the smallest businesses using PayPal, Square or others for the distribution of funds (some of this started happening last week, which is good). This initiative was later written into Congressional appropriations.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

The company's market cap at the time of their entry into the public markets topped $100 billion dollars. Can institutions be totally distributed or should they be rooted and loyal to a certain community or geography? It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. So in that way, it was totally unlike a photo.

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