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Transcript of How to Turn Your Product Idea Into a Business

Duct Tape Marketing

I mean there’s nothing wrong with starting with a dream, but the tenacity and stick-to-itiveness and just the sheer organization it takes to run a Kickstarter campaign would quickly weed those folks out. They wouldn’t see things through to the end of a successful campaign.

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Transcript of Creating a Brand Name That Sticks

Duct Tape Marketing

It’s that thing that people refer to when they have a need. And so [Fred Knerr 00:00:22:52], who was one of the founders, went out and he visited Fred Morrison in Connecticut near Yale, and he saw all the kids were calling this thing Frisbee. So they do say a 90 day or a six month campaign to communicate the change, but-.

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Episode 14: Be Your Own Boss, Restaurant Owners, and Friendliest Cities for Businesses | The Bcast

Up and Running

We’re making “Metal Gear Solid” references here now. Peter: Number three, New Haven Connecticut. Maybe we’ll start a make Buffalo more friendly to small business campaign. Peter: Yeah, just a quick note to our listeners, Eric is not contagious to you over the airwaves. Jonathan: It’s an audio virus.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

The "drip drip drip" of data he was seeing from countries that were hit first told him what was coming, and he made it his mission to start a campaign for masks -- Masks4All. Which means that for me to get the policy changed here, I actually had to become an advocate and a campaigner. That's just not enough to move the dial on policy.