Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Frank Cowell is a speaker, best-selling author, and entrepreneur in the San Diego, California area. With over 20 years of sales, marketing, and leadership experience, Frank serves as Chief Revenue Boss at his latest venture, Revenue Ranch. Hundreds of dollars of stuff that's in our house now that you have to go and sell.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Welcome to the Internet bubble.) Disbelief, Anger, Resignation and Acceptance My cofounders and I went through the stages of disbelief, anger, resignation and acceptance. Here was a competitor who had appropriated our idea and gotten funded. There was lots of venting as we talked about lawsuits and issuing nasty press releases.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Finally, since no one would believe a set of benchmarks named after our company, we needed a façade of independence, so we named them after the street the company was headquartered on in Sunnyvale California – they became known as the Potrero Benchmarks.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

Rincon is part of the new breed of Seed Stage VCs and with the leadership of Jim Andelman has charted out the most authentic early-stage investment strategy in Southern California. Any SoCal entrepreneur raising early-stage money should put Rincon on their short list.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

At the time no one (including Apple) knew exactly what consumers were going to do with multimedia, it was still pre-Internet. Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. Leadership. Internet and Online Business. Leadership and Managing >. During the first Internet boom, companies that provided services to tech start-ups were all too happy to work for stock. Start-up | Mondays. Technology | Thursdays. Business Taxes.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2013

Still, it would serve you to do a little research (the Internet always delivers); what you will find is that even as far as back the times of the American industrial revolution, big business has always prioritized financial gain over being a humane, moralistic force for national growth and prosperity. The Internet Never Forgives nor Forgets.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

35:20) Inspiring acts of leadership and working hard. (35:50) My parents and my brother live in Southern California. He was talking about what he thought needed to happen in California and the fact that every state was going to need the kind of expertise was able to muster and probably wouldn't have access to that.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2018

I personally bought the citibank.com URL and introduced the first internet-based online banking. This was during the internet explosion, so I’d say it was called the digital revolution 1.0. My role migrated over to that, and I was put on a task force to figure out how GE could begin to digitize itself and the industrial internet.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 26, 2014

A municipal utility may be able to provide electricity that is cheaper or about as affordable as our current utility offers – or the city may waste millions of dollars trying, just as communities in Florida , California , and New Mexico have done recently.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 29, 2012

A few things have happened recently to cause me to look a little closer at NY for the next amazing companies in Internet technology. Again, New York blows California away here. (3) First, a friend announced that they were moving their startup geo-lo based company from L.A. These people abound in New York.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Like an accelerator or incubator program, NestGSV gives its resident startups office space, advice and lots of other amenities (even a beach volleyball court) at its Redwood City, California, campus near Silicon Valley. Currently 22 are residing there, paying $550 a month for a desk with 300Mbps of Internet bandwidth.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Are they drawn to Texas or moving away from California? Texas exported more than California and New York combined in 2019. Only California and New York have a few more, and maybe not for long. I expect to see more announcements of big name people and companies moving to Texas every month in 2021. What’s bringing them here?

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Like an accelerator or incubator program, NestGSV gives its resident startups office space, advice and lots of other amenities (even a beach volleyball court) at its Redwood City, California, campus near Silicon Valley. Currently 22 are residing there, paying $550 a month for a desk with 300Mbps of Internet bandwidth.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

During the Internet bubble, one more function of the marketing department was to “buy” customer loyalty with enormous advertising and promotion spending to create a brand.) The PR agency helps the company understand and influence key bloggers, social networks, industry analysts, luminaries, and references.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 22, 2009

And that he might want to think about aligning all his video and Internet products under that name. As we were plotting marketing strategy, I mentioned that the phrase “Speaking to the Big Dogs” might end up as his corporate brand.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Fast forward to 2021, six in 10 people around the world now use the internet, 332 million people came online for the first time in 2021, and 4.66 billion actively use the internet worldwide – 59.5% His leadership saw UST Global grow significantly, seeing the company grow from 20 employees to more than 25,000 employees today.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Preserve your cash: When you have unlimited cash (internet bubbles, frothy venture climate,) you can iterate on your mistakes by burning more dollars. This is the most important sentence in this post and worth deconstructing.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Like an accelerator or incubator program, NestGSV gives its resident startups office space, advice and lots of other amenities (even a beach volleyball court) at its Redwood City, California, campus near Silicon Valley. Currently 22 are residing there, paying $550 a month for a desk with 300Mbps of Internet bandwidth.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 23, 2022

16- To filter negative internet content. The Internet can be an amazing place and it has opened us up to an entirely new level of communication, technology, and more. But there are also things on the Internet that need to be filtered. I remember moving to California almost 10 years ago and was completely overwhelmed.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

political leadership with a much bigger picture. To give our leadership an estimate of the Soviet’s nuclear production capacity, the CIA also had to estimate how many nuclear weapons could the Soviet Union make. How big of a nuclear warhead could they carry (throw weight and yield)? Where were their production facilities?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Reply Why Startups Die | Kikabink News - Internet Marketing News , on October 3, 2009 at 9:20 pm Said: [.] Steve Case makes a strong case that the major reason for startup failuer is management using the classic Product Development management process rather than the emerging Customer Development process. [.]

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 23, 2019

Meanwhile, another study by researchers from the University of Southern California found that the most common email response is two minutes. The same USC study found that while most people are connected to the Internet 24/7, there are still times of the day when emails get faster replies. Source: Polymail.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 23, 2019

Meanwhile, another study by researchers from the University of Southern California found that the most common email response is two minutes. The same USC study found that while most people are connected to the Internet 24/7, there are still times of the day when emails get faster replies. Source: Polymail.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

They created a program called Onward California in partnership with the State of California and with the support of governor Newsom. Their model in California was so successful they eventually created a new organization, Onward US, dedicated to putting American workers displaced by COVID-19 back to work. Jake Soberal : Yeah.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 7, 2016

Hunter Walk: You’re an expat, having moved to Sweden last year for a leadership role at Spotify. Keep in mind that I grew up in Texas and then lived in California. And with Internet-enabled devices and access proliferating, the idea of being able to “sign in” anywhere is imminent.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

The quintessential California couple, they stood out in our crowd as the engineer (in his late 20′s, respected by his peers and the customer) had hair down to his shoulders, sharply contrasting with the military crewcuts of the customers and most of the other contractors. Instead, this is a culture clash.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

consumer Internet) might have a really, really high bar of achievement for funding. Guaranteed Funding – Not Will this type of presentation guarantee you funding? Of course not. Even if you have the worlds best Lessons Learned slides you might find out that your particular market (i.e.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

A large number of these customers had mailed back their registration cards (this was pre-Internet) with their names, phone numbers, job titles, etc. This was a company that had sold 15,000 graphics boards and monitors to consumers. So I asked the fatal question, “Has anyone ever looked at the customer registration cards?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

I packed up my life in Michigan and spent five days driving to California to start work. No internet, no blogs, no books [.] You’re Hired, You’re Fired. My first job in Silicon Valley: I was hired as a lab technician at ESL to support the training department. Driving across the U.S. is an adventure everyone ought to do.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

The Digital Dream Team Way before the Internet phenomenon, we had created “Rocket Science the brand ” that was much bigger in size and importance than Rocket Science the company. Companies in the entertainment business around the world knew who we were, and were interested in meeting us, if only to see what the hype was about.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

As a student of leadership and communication, he learned to elevate the way Amazonians write, collaborate, innovate, pitch, and present. John, it may not mean a lot to you today, but at the time it certainly did because most people had the question, what's the internet? So I think I'm the only Carmine Gallo in California.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

» 25 Responses Mark Soper , on November 30, 2009 at 6:55 am Said: Steve, I’m working on a consumer internet product concept at the customer discovery phase.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 2, 2021

He was rejected from university three times and applied to more than thirty jobs before he founded Ten Cent which is one of the largest and most successful Internet companies in the world today. I always look up to Abraham Lincoln for his leadership. A couple of names come to my mind, but I admire Alan Mulally's leadership the most.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Think of the Microprocessor, Personal Computer, Internet, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, Google, the iPhone. Creating those technologies and companies required entrepreneurs willing to follow their own vision and convincing others that the path is worth following.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

and the major New York industries across the X-axis (internet, food, retail, fashion, etc.). A team in California is already creating a offshore seastead for non-US citizens who want to build companies in the US. It would be valuable to have checklists for all of the intersections in this grid.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

While both Stanford and MIT encouraged commercially oriented research and courted federal research contracts in the postwar years, MITs leadership focused on building relations with government agencies and seeking financial support from established electronics producers. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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