Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 30, 2019

Transcript of Why Reviews Matter to Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch: Today’s episode is brought to you by Break Through The Noise , the new book by Tim Staples, Co-Founder and CEO of Shareability. Back to Podcast. Transcript. Aaron, thanks for joining me.

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Software Review Reputation Small Business Aggregator 66

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. Signal is a fundraising tool for founders run by NFX Guild, which identifies the most relevant VCs for you. . Pitchbot.vc 3) Originate investments. 4) Manage deal flow.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Debt also has a due date and interest rate to negotiate. A major reason for incorporating is to have the founders assign their IP to the company; it is far easier for a business to contract with a startup when the IP is owned by one entity. Incorporation also protects the founders from a liability standpoint.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

The recent introduction of their “Channels” feature allows website owners to create a series of related videos and display the collection on their website—no coding required. For example, it was how Loom’s co-founder and CEO, Joe Thomas, responded to me when I asked for information about the platform: The platform uses Loom’s desktop app.

Hosting 127

Hosting Video Technical Review Software Review 127

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. LEE: Conviction scale, Rob?

Technical Review 159

Technical Review Startup Software Review B2B 159

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

As a globally focused LP in early stage VC funds, we at Blue Future Partners have observed a growing trend of firms investing substantially in software tools, whether developing proprietary solutions or adopting off the shelf tools. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes?

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

This typically includes: Relationships with relevant service providers in your vertical, often with pre-negotiated discounts: coaches, lawyers, accountants, common software vendors, consultants. A well-organized library of best practices for founders in your vertical, which you can share as appropriate. AskAnything.VC Advantages.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Portfolio Equity 78

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 I just reviewed several hundred startup pitches for Capital Factory. Between this blog and reviewing applications to Capital Factory I see hundreds of pitches a year. Most were on paper and video; 20 were invited to pitch in person.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2015

This is due, in part, to the joyful work environment at Menlo. . For example, BambooHR , a software development company based in Utah, has an anti-workaholic policy. He is the co-founder and CEO of Switch & Shift, an advocacy and consultancy focused on the human side of business, and host of the popular Work That Matters podcast.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. One needs to be in during bull markets and bear markets. Year in, year out.

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Software Review Turkey Portfolio Syndicate 150

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

The first time I met Matan, the founder of Melio, he told me that his mission was simple: he wanted to “help small businesses stay in business” by making B2B payments fast, simple and flexible. And he and his co-founders Ziv and Ilan made it happen: Melio’s now processing multi-billion dollar payment volumes less than two years after launch.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 1, 2019

Say you work at a SaaS company selling AI software. It can also come up in face-to-face meetings—sales pitches, conferences talks, account reviews, etc. To return to an earlier example, an in-depth review of your AI system may be easy to understand (and persuasive) for a fellow developer. Image source).

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Technical Review Marketing Software Review Audience 133

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Hundreds of user reviews of both platforms on G2 Crowd reveal the key benefits—and shortcomings—of each. G2 Crowd, a business technology review site, has almost 3,000 reviews of Google Analytics. Google Analytics is definitely better at measuring traffic,” noted Dan McGaw, the founder and CMO of Effin Amazing.

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Analytics Technical Review Acquisition Retention 119

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

The solution aggregates a user’s media from multiple libraries across devices – music, videos and pictures stored across devices, in addition to the internet and TV – and makes this content searchable and controllable via the application interface. Eyecon's interface is an easy way to build a playlist, on any connected device.

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Media Software Review Software 75

David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Michael Smith, leader of the Social Innovation team at the Case Foundation , introduced the Foundation as a non-profit started in 1997 by Steve Case (AOL co-founder) and his wife, Jean Case. They do that by aggregating America’s startups, providing them with pro bono services, and promoting regional ecosystem development. Our website.

America 144

America DC Startup Aggregator 144

om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Om Malik is the founder of GigaOM. He is the founder of Desiparty.com. Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned. Being a startup founder is hard, tough, frustrating and rewarding – possibly all within the space of a nanosecond. Are You Winning As a Founder? He is a venture partner at True Ventures.

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Founder Conversion Distribution Silicon Valley 80

mashable.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

We asked 10 founders to share what they think the future of personalized shopping holds (ecommerce entrepreneurs, listen up!). Amazons product suggestions are great because they have so much aggregate data. If they did, I could get an amazing aggregate view of whats relevant to me based on a more complete profile. startupcto'

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eCommerce Technical Review San Francisco New York City 108

ConversionXL

JULY 10, 2019

That simplifies content creation and link building compared to, say, trying to promote niche B2B software. You might assume that most people would link directly to the original research, but this shows that, for the purpose of earning links, aggregating research from multiple sources may be just as effective as doing your own.

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Marketing Acquisition Software Review Aggregator 125

www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. Co-Founder and CEO, Wetpaint. Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation. Correlation Ventures is tied to a different legacy—HNC Software, which was a pioneering developer of predictive software that was used to assess the risk of credit card fraud. New York ›.

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San Diego Venture Capital Technical Review San Francisco 40

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. ” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. Code Igniter. code spaces (svn).

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase. It's one of those things that founders can do sometimes where other employees are afraid to do it.

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IPO Cofounder Technical Review Government 113

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Co-founder & CEO Steve Hafner and the business team are based in Norwalk, CT. Kayak Software Corporation. Founding Date: 2004. What They Do: Travel search engine.

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Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Content providers and owners facing diminishing revenues from their SD sales, due to increasing demand for HD content, can now restore the full economic value of their vast archives, by transforming them to True HD. Unlike other companies, we are a true digital record label, not aggregators. Craze - Company Website.

Securities and Exchange Commission 133

Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

Adrian wants to build a location-based service focused on assembling, and then reviewing and rating various services from fixing roofs to plumbing. A well designed trust system with reviews and ratings and dispute settlement would be necessary to prevent fraud, the way other exchanges like eBay do.

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Costa Rica America Silicon Valley Entrepreneur 114

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Also worth a read after you review these startup failure post-mortems. Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. You should sign up for our newsletter here. Company : Wesabe.

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Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

When we pivoted from fabulis to Fab, we pivoted towards building a business around the unique tastemaker talents of one of our founders, Bradford Shellhammer. Have amazing co-founders who are better at what they do than you could ever be. Founders need to personally own something big themselves. It’s that important.

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Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 16, 2012

You’ve heard enough about the need to produce content that I’m guessing you’re probably blogging away and curating, aggregating and filtering all manner of content. The service then produces an mp3 and code to embed on your site for people to play the recordings.

Customer 71

Customer Nashville Software Review Aggregator 71

Software By Rob

JANUARY 12, 2010

As I was looking at traffic stats I noticed a huge increase in mid-November due to a number of write-ups on startup and web-2.0 Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. 11 Why Free Plans Don’t Work | Software by Rob on 08.18.10 3 Dan on 01.12.10

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2017

Speaking with Landon Ray, the Founder of ONTRAPORT. He is the Founder and CEO of ONTRAPORT, an award-winning web-based sales marketing and business automation software platform. I’ve never made software before or even a website. Landon, thanks for joining us. Landon Ray: Yeah, thanks for having me, John.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

And while the value of testing may be apparent to those involved in it, individual test results do not aggregate into ROI calculations made in the C-Suite. Without a defined window, you could make ludicrous comparisons, like decades-long holdouts to measure your current site against its hand-coded version from the late 1990s.

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Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Audience Campaign 101

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Pamela Poole is a blogger, translator and tech writer, and founder of Francophilia.com , a social startup for Francophiles. There's a thriving geek culture in Paris, and no lack of software development expertise, thanks to superior universities that produce superior engineers. All those struggling, bootstrapping, Ramen-eating founders?

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France Technical Review Incubator Early Stage 163

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

See Paul Grahams Why Nerds are Unpopular to learn more) Take a look at this article on a programming Q&A site: How old are you, and how old were you when you started coding? We also learned that law is code , and that leadership was needed to build thriving communities in a digital age. Can I send you a review copy?

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Programming San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 143

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

“Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. And in fact, overall trends are a second-order effect for founders.” “The real winners here are going to be the seed funds and early stage VCs that can write a $1 million to $2 million check,” says AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. A few times per year, Bessemer organizes a CxO event for our portfolio companies and we decided to focus our first session of 2008 on Software-as-a-service (SaaS). Monday, February 04, 2008.

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Software Review South Korea IPO Portfolio 48

ConversionXL

APRIL 29, 2013

In this case study on Kissmetrics , Garret Moon, founder of Todaymade.com talks about how they targeted their 85% (or higher) bounce pages as a place to offer relevant lead magnets, which lead to doubling their optin rates within 7 days. From here, determine a lead magnet that would best match the intent of the page. image credit.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

The trick is to be able to evaluate them and most investors will probably need to rely on experts to help them with diligence. SA : I think we've seen a handful of companies now tell their engineers that if you want to take paid time off to go work on a software project related to COVID. I don't think people go back from that.

Silicon Valley 68

Silicon Valley Technical Review Government .Net 68

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. For a consumer internet company in particular, this is often due to a lack of design thinking. Startup founders need to use their own judgment to ask: which is the riskiest assumption underlying my business plan?

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