Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Carolyn serves as the co-founder and CEO of Hello Alice. Carolyn Rodz co-founded a free digital platform that connects business owners with the resources they need to launch and grow. She serves as the co-founder and CEO of Hello Alice. Marketing Podcast with Carolyn Rodz.

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View from Seed

MARCH 16, 2016

These companies have a long way to go until global dominance in many cases, but they are all growing, hiring, and strengthening the local community right now. How about Jana , which brings internet access to the developing world and boasts 30 million global users? Want businesses with massive reach and international presence?

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Some of the finalists were generating revenues already and/or have very promising strategic partnerships lined up. A lot of entrepreneurs attended the event as evident by business cards with “Founder&# listed. Presenters: Sarah Allen (Co-Founder & CTO, Mightyverse) and Paul Lundahl (Creative Director, Mightyverse).

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Nothing seems to apply--you're not a tech company, you bootstrapped your way to millions in revenues before taking on capital, and you sell mostly through brick and mortar. Technically, that's what we called it, but it didn't seem entirely appropriate given that it had already been up and running for years and had millions in revenue.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

O’Reilly’s article describes two businesses from his own career at O’Reilly—the Global Network Navigator (GNN) web portal, which he sold to AOL, and the Website web server, which eventually fell by the wayside. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

According to Juniper Research, mobile coupon redemption values to exceed $43 billion globally by 2016 from $5.4 the team plans to focus on partnerships and a revenue share on redeemed offers. FootTraffic is bootstrapped and is looking to raise funding. billion in 2011. ” So how will FootTraffic make money?

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

But you don't have any lords and masters to answer to and the pay out goes entirely to the founders and management team. The big enterprise software companies almost all bootstrapped their way to profitability before they got their first external investors (typically via an IPO). For more on this subject, here are some earlier posts ).

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David Cohen

JULY 28, 2013

He ended up not only being interested, but actually becoming a cofounder. This kind of competition is happening all the time on a global scale. The idea for random days comes from Brad Feld , who has held them regularly for years. In fact, I met Brad on one of his random days, when I presented the idea for Techstars to him.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. After you’ve organized all the global ad agencies in the world, then you can go after Enterprise once you’ve got that market down. We would rather chase revenue. The other is, ‘Don’t forget about bootstrapping.’ A: All right.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 31, 2010

Abell, New York Bureau Chief for Wired.com Panelists: - Tony Jebara, Associate Professor Computer Science, Columbia University & Chief Scientist at Sense Networks - Chris Dixon, Co-founder, CEO at Hunch - Denis Crowley, Founder and CEO of Foursquare Exploring trends in lifecasting and the proliferation of location based services.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

We’ve continued bootstrapping since then — today we are a $2.5 I’m Shelia Fitzgerald, owner and founder of EliteFitz, a destination inspired women’s boutique. We have an amazing co-parenting style that works for both of us, and we’re both happy. Thanks to Emily Reynolds, founder of R PR Firm ! #4

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

What CEOs, management teams and shareholders care about is growth —revenue growth, greater user adoption, increased market share, bigger margins, etc. There are co-working spaces in basically every city in the world—from Nepal to New York. And this has created a global entrepreneurial ecosystem.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Bootstrapping your business. If you aren’t familiar with the term, bootstrapping, also known as “self-funding,” refers to the various methods entrepreneurs can use to fund their startups beyond funding sources like small business loans. Using a side business to bootstrap your startup. Let’s begin.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 4, 2011

One of the discussions that ensued was about how to bootstrap a freemium venture. How do you find co-founders who are willing to work for 18 months without getting paid? During this week's roundtable, we had Inoh Choe from San Jose, California, pitch DemoTunes, a freemium concept. How long can you go without a salary?

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

If failure is defined as failing to see the projected return on investment—say, a specific revenue growth rate or date to break even on cash flow—then more than 95% of start-ups fail, based on Mr. Ghoshs research. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Globaloney: Globalization Challenged.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

This post is part of Accel’s Secrets to Scaling series, where leaders from across our portfolio share their learnings and advice with the next generation of European and Israeli entrepreneurs building global winners. What advice would you give on choosing co-founders? Obviously, co-founders have to be good at what they do too!

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

The Co-Commerce Revolution – Well it isn’t really a revolution, more of a devolution. The co-commerce era is here and defined by the 3 C’s – Collaboration, Conversations and Creativity. So I thought I might pull all these thoughts together in a new edition of Soundbites from the Future – The 2013 edition.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Founder of JackCards.com. In any case, the valley is small. I met 2-4 women whom I’ve met at other SV events. Some folks whom I met: Debra Bowen, Secretary of State of California. President of The Tech Museum. Senior (Health) Benefits Consultant. CEO of a software development outsourcing firm (Ukraine). Business development consultant.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Founder of JackCards.com. In any case, the valley is small. I met 2-4 women whom I’ve met at other SV events. Some folks whom I met: Debra Bowen, Secretary of State of California. President of The Tech Museum. Senior (Health) Benefits Consultant. CEO of a software development outsourcing firm (Ukraine). Business development consultant.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

If you want the site to translate ancient Arabic poetry to Spanish to increase global tolerance, just say, “Translate paragraphs from Arabic to Spanish.” Programmers, and certainly not the visionary founders, are the most qualified for that task. #6 Co-founders and outsourcing work the same. Be succinct. Insightful.

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