Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

More About Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network: Learn more here. John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the duct tape marketing podcast is brought to you by the salesman podcast, hosted by Will Barron and brought to you by the HubSpot podcast network. You know, could you look at my business plan? Like this show?

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 17, 2023

The platform has raised over $225 million through equity and debt financing to date. Furlenco’s innovative business model has disrupted the traditional furniture industry in India. Sheela Foam has a market capitalization of over $1 billion and has a network of more than 100 factories across India.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Investors like to see that you have committed personal funds as well as “sweat equity,” and they like to see real progress at this level. Get a real customer and real revenue. Show personal investment. Become a visible expert.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Investors like to see that you have committed personal funds as well as “sweat equity,” and they like to see real progress at this level. Get a real customer and real revenue. Show personal investment. Become a visible expert.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

As opposed to taking a potentially smart risk on equity). I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution. The Network May Not be as Valuable as It Seems. But how strong is that business school network actually useful for entrepreneurs?

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

As opposed to taking a potentially smart risk on equity). I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution. The Network May Not be as Valuable as It Seems. But how strong is that business school network actually useful for entrepreneurs?

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Investors like to see that you have committed personal funds as well as “sweat equity,” and they like to see real progress at this level. Get a real customer and real revenue. Show personal investment. Become a visible expert.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

Foundry Group, investing primarily in “ Software and Internet ”, follows six major themes, e.g., Human Computer Interaction (HCI) or Distribution. USV invests in companies that increase “ access to knowledge, capital, and well-being by leveraging networks, platforms, and protocols ”. 2) Business model-defined funds.

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. Other coinvestors: Limited partners, other VCs who are coinvestors, private equity funds which are potential growth-stage investors, etc. (That said, I think videoconferencing will supplant more in-person meetings over time.).

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

The government buys and distributes commercial images from startups to supplement their own and shares them with Ukraine as part of a broader intelligence-sharing arrangement that the head of Defense Intelligence Agency described as “ revolutionary.” Today, commercial companies have their own satellites providing unclassified imagery.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 12, 2013

Well, in most forms of angel and early-stage private equity investing, these breakdowns flow from a misunderstanding of the power and nature of outliers. In its simplest form, the Network Effect posits that the value of a network increases exponentially with each new user on it. To put it another way, turning $500,000 into $1.8

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Start With a Business Model, Not a Business Plan | WSJ – [link]. The danger of waiting to long to find a business model? Convertible Debt: really Bridge Loans and Equity Replacement Debt – [link]. How PRWeb Helps Distribute Crap Into Google & News Sites – [link]. – [link].

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Once the $1 million revenue milestone is crossed, entrepreneurs find it easier to find additional customers, manage working capital, and access funding, whether it is credit or equity. a distributed, democratic model of capitalism. And finally, we have defined 1M/1M as a framework for capitalism 2.0, RS: What makes 1M/1M unique?

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Programming Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 116

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

In his white paper How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood , PEVCTECH.com founder David Teten explored how private equity and venture capital investors are trying to automate more of their job. The industry is now dominated by hedge funds and other quant driven approaches.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Social networking. Create your own social network. free enterprise social network. free, distributed source code control management system. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. model legal documents. Founder Equity Issues. Venture Hacks equity section. Legal, Equity, etc.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration.

Software Review 110

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

To do this they have to accomplish five things; 1) get deal flow – via networking and legwork, they identify likely industries, companies and teams with the potential for rapid growth (less than 10 years), 2) evaluate those companies and teams on the basis of technology, market opportunity, and team.

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Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2018

Not only that, but global equity funding to digital health companies reached $3.67 If you’ve never written a business plan before, take a look at these sample medical startup business plans. At first, you need to focus on developing your business model and validating it. billion in 2017 YTD (as of May 22, 2017).

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. We also discussed having distributed teams (e.g. Social network app developer and ad network. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. We discussed NY vs. Silicon Valley and NY vs. Boston.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

By way of crude example, if your building innovative trading software for Wall Street, be where you customers are and where you can best network. So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders.”. Now I just need a business model. 5 – Ran out of cash.

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Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Now, the concept of outliers and how they apply to early stage private equity investment is not a new one. This idea of technological interconnectedness is related - though not exactly the same – as that of the much ballyhooed Network Effect that is so much at the heart of Facebook's astronomical value. Of course not. read more.

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 20, 2012

While Hulu and Netflix and Lovefilm, the iPlayer, 4OD and now finally even YouView are all welcome new and varied distribution channels for our made for television content, what’s much more fascinating is the explosive emergence of a made–for-online video category. Thirty six thousand of them did in the first 24 hours.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

The investors and the entrepreneurs are – or should be – aware that the price of the company’s equity is set by the market – in simplest terms, what an informed buyer is willing to pay.   As a starting point, these become market comparable discussions based on other similar transactions within a recent timeframe and similar business.

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Term Sheet Valuation Dividend Liquidation Preference 68

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

I have come to believe during my time as an operator, entrepreneur and investor that the balance of these skills is so important to the long-term health of a business that if balance is not achieved early then the impact later can be profound - sometimes terminal. Developers who understand and can execute on a business model.

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Technical Review Startup CTO Hire Cofounder 51

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? Spend 20% of your time building a network of advisors that can help you. Warning: Typos, run-on sentences, and crappy formatting.

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Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

An entrepreneur starts a company in classic " bootstrap " fashion - with a combination of sweat equity and their own financial resources. Management has the wrong pedigree, is geographically undesirable, competes in the wrong industry, and/or has a business model that lacks "scalability credibility" with the venture community.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

You have to focus on for the nuts and bolts, what is the business model, how are we going to make money. Get as many leads as possible, bring in more money, prove that you’ve got a good model and then you can go out and raise money or get a loan and more easily actually get that money. Are you going for private equity?

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Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

David Teten

JUNE 7, 2011

Until recently, most Internet innovation has centered around improvements — big improvements, but incremental ones nonetheless — to existing business models and familiar social structures: Amazon is the ultimate retail destination, Zipcar the ubiquitous rental-car agency; Meetup is a sewing circle on steroids.

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Professor VC

DECEMBER 8, 2015

one company running out of cash and another with cash but searching for a business model). Musk was the early winner taking the CEO role (for a brief period) in the merged company and the largest equity stake as well. Often times those involve trading within a venture capital portfolio or between two venture firms portfolios.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

Paid off properties also have equity that you can tap into when in need. I consider this business endeavor as an overall success however. Not so much because of the chump change we made (my distribution partner and I), but more so because of the invaluable lessons learned in the process. Why did we decide to sell the business?

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

had mixed emotions when I read the the press release on the recent funding of iControl Networks. I took a look back at our original financial model we presented to VCs in 2004. But of course, the model had us requiring only $10M equity to breakeven and to achieve $185M in revenues in 2008 (the magic Year 5 in all business plans).

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

The programmer will probably not understand your business model, and therefore cant help you point out anything that doesnt make sense in the requirements. Many good freelancers are very busy right now and can be found through networking with friends or linked in. ", but probably "Version 0.x" Insightful.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I plan to use the internet as my networking base, and friends as my streettalkers. Kellie This couldn’t have come at a better time… I’m about to step into that small business selfemployment arena. I plan to use the internet as my networking base, and friends as my streettalkers. How to have good startup? [.]

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