Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Brett is cofounder of Kumospace, the virtual HQ for remote teams, and Charge Ventures, a pre/seed VC based in Brooklyn, NY. 17:34] One of the things I’m guessing was a visual or design decision is the way the graphics appear – is that a technology choice or a design choice? [18:51] This is the design and product pod.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

dominated by a few very large incumbents who control much of the distribution or are you going into a market that is “fragmented” where nobody controls the industry. They literally can’t respond to our core differentiator. Know your planned sources of differentiation and adjust as you learn. You need a wedge.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Essentially, the application lets small businesses control three elements that’s crucial for reaching customers – effective content, professional visual design, and efficient distribution across various channels. each via in-app purchase.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

That requires deep value creation that is difficult to do when everyone is using the same tools, even in different ways -- value requires differentiality which requires protection as soon as someone spots the value creation, for it will be copied soon thereafter. Otherwise it's a great idea. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

” Bill Gross, who is one of the Godfathers of the Internet, once told me, “ If you don’t design a product that is 10x better than the competition then you’ll never build anything truly big or amazing.” And for the next several months the founders literally ran the business. 10x the experience.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

But because paid traffic is fundamentally a bidding war, its important that you have a differentiated ability to monetize customers better than other people who are bidding for the same traffic. For Neopets, its simply a side-effect of their game-like product design. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

female founders. founder friday. Lessons learned from female founders and women entrepreneurs. Startup Quote: Wendy Tan White on Building a Successful Startup » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder. Tweet By Elizabeth Knopf (Co-Founder & CEO, Sorced). Conference 2012.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

7:30] Would you say self-publishing is seen as a differentiator for businesses? [11:42] We were founded by a gentleman named Bob Young, who was the original co-founder of Red Hat, which is a massive software company. And again, for a lot of people, that's what they were concerned with was distribution.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. If you don’t know Montgomery & Co it is one of the premier technology & media focused investment banks in the country (and as Michael corrected me they also have a strong Healthcare / Med tech practice).

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Marketers following this practice start with a hypothesis, design and run an experiment, and interpret results to fuel future experiments. The growth marketer would design and run an experiment (ideating, drafting, and sending the email), and then review the data to confirm or disprove the hypothesis.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

“If you can fix a problem for someone and do it better, quicker, and/or cheaper than your competitor, you’re off to a good start.” – Gabriel Kuperman, founder and CEO of CuePin. We created UpKeep to fill this void—a cloud-based solution that was affordable for any size business.” – Ryan Chan, founder of UpKeep.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 24, 2019

She is the co-founder and CEO of the Grommet and author of How We Make Stuff Now. You have to start as a dreamer or nothing’s going to become of it, but obviously like you said it’s the implementation that is really what differentiates. How often do people underestimate the role of design in the whole picture?

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

In contrast to “distribution-first content,” movement-first content is a conscious sacrifice of reach: “it isn’t beholden to any SEO tactics like word count and keyword density.” Picking a term with a well-understood foil (“outbound marketing”) makes it easier to understand and differentiate. An eponymous book (e.g. March 2016.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

This success was aided by the fact that it did just one thing extremely well – its lack of extra features emphasized its differentiation. This is precisely the dilemma that the doctrine of minimum viable product is designed to solve. We already know who to distribute the product to (or else why would we care what they think?).

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pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

More to the point, the relationships with vendors, know-how of product hunting and credibility in the design world took decades to develop. Co-founder and CEO Jason Goldberg said this was the first of several companies he’s started that was so intensely personal, he couldn’t imagine ever doing anything else.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

They can call a meeting with all the stakeholders in the room and then just let them fight it out – this is design by committee and it rarely yields anything beyond mediocrity. They had a couple experienced co-founders, including the now legendary Reed Hastings, but the problem was that they were stuck at about 300,000 customers.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year. This is her core market.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year. This is her core market.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. Popular categories include web developers, mobile developers, designers, writers, and accountants. billion of GSV (gross services revenue) across 2.0

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 16, 2013

For me, one of the highlights of the recent The Next Web Conference USA was a chance to chat on stage to Soraya Darabi , co-founder of Foodspotting and now her new venture Zady.com , about the lessons she’s learned from launching two startups. You only launch once, and you must make it count.”. - Soraya Darabi, Co-Founder of Zady.com.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

My guess is they have lots of people constantly working on interesting new tools for their designers to play with. For startups that are tempted to mimic this behavior, I suggest reading the great account of the early Apple in Founders at Work.) Discover whats in customers heads, and tackle problems where design is a differentiator.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 24, 2020

When co-founders Hannu Rajaniemi and Nikolai Eroshenko realized their work was applicable to a coronavirus vaccine, too, they changed direction immediately. And then co-founded Helix Nano Technologies, or HelixNano, which I am now the CEO of. They are extremely well designed by evolution. Eric Ries : Yeah.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

Using our iPhone or Android apps or visiting Handwrytten.com, it is easy to select a card from our inventory of over 80 designs, tap out your message and select a handwriting style. I am founder on an unconventional online gallery, The Art and Craft Gallery. I couldn’t sew or draw so becoming a fashion designer was out.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 30, 2017

He is the CEO of cofounder of Influence and Company and the author of a book we’re going to talk about today called Top of Mind, use content to unleash your influence and engage those who matter to you, so John thanks for joining me. Out of the 100,000 people there I meet the 20 that I need to, so that’s a distribution effect.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Use Design to Elevate Your Content Marketing written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. As you plan your content marketing strategy, consider using design and visual storytelling to differentiate your content from the competition. Why design? Neil Patel, QuickSprout Founder. The golden ratio of images.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 12, 2011

I mentioned this article in a conversation I had with the co-founder of a new startup. In the next few sections I discuss what I feel the Network Computer or Internet Appliance should be, and what I think would be some of the essential characteristics of it’s design. The information is distributed… on the network.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 12, 2011

I mentioned this article in a conversation I had with the co-founder of a new startup. In the next few sections I discuss what I feel the Network Computer or Internet Appliance should be, and what I think would be some of the essential characteristics of it’s design. The information is distributed… on the network.

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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. An era defined and dominated by the few who could afford the factories, the media and the distribution systems. The co-commerce era is here and defined by the 3 C’s – Collaboration, Conversations and Creativity.

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VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

To learn more about the product and the founder’s ambitious vision, I interviewed Erez Pilosof, founder and CEO of Libox who also founded and ran Walla! It’s all based on growth and on opening the capabilities of the Libox distribution platform to the community. Libox is designed for integration for all your devices.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team? They are many more examples.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

Entrepreneurs such as Figma CEO Dylan Field, fellow investors including Moxxie Ventures founder and general partner Katie Stanton, and Coatue Management partner Jamie McGurk pitched questions to the duo. Founders ask how should I feel when I can pass on the SPAC-ing? You can listen to the podcast here. FULL TRANSCRIPT.

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