Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Debbie is the co-founder and CEO of Senior Living SMART, a full-service marketing agency focused exclusively on the senior housing and care industry. She is the co-founder and CEO of Senior Living Smart, a full service marketing agency focused exclusively on the senior housing and care industry.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

The most common feedback Ive heard from readers has been that I should provide details on my background. He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). October 13, 2008 6:47 PM Luke G said.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Harvard professor Noam Wasserman and WSJ small-business editor Vanessa OConnell took reader questions about avoiding start-up pitfalls on Sept. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., Replay the event.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

And if you’re a regular reader of this blog, you may know that IMVU started out as an instant messaging add-on. Andy Mathieson, a founder and managing member at Fairview Capital , was particularly supportive. And if you’re a regular reader of this blog, you may know that IMVU started out as an instant messaging add-on.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 1, 2017

As the CEO of Hera Hub , the global co-working space, Felena recognized an opportunity to build a female-focused coworking space largely because she couldn’t find one that catered to her needs. Nichole MacDonald, founder of The Sash Bag secured multiple rounds of funding and advisors through the Hera Hub community.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

But in today’s world, speed-to-scale entrepreneurship is what we need to improve society, transform industries, and create massive value for customers, employees, and investors. When the market conditions are right, you should blitzscale for the benefit of all stakeholders: customers, employees, investors, and society.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2020

We have since adapted (with Snacks n Chill) to focus on helping businesses boost morale by sending care packages to employees with healthy and delicious snacks directly to their homes. GPA, salutatorian, cheerleader, class secretary…you know an all-around stand-up kid. Thanks to Nicholas Chen, S nacks n Chill ! Go for awesome!

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The bulk of the responses included individuals who are in the weeds doing the work—or have gotten out of the weeds through years of great results: Benji Hyam , co-founder of Grow and Convert, doesn’t just write about content marketing; he built a content marketing agency by getting his clients results. And what were the learnings?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 19, 2009 Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet Its been an exhilarating first day here in Washington DC for the Geeks on a Plane tour. We can remedy it by creating a special visa for startup founders. Will you join us? I think the benefits are a no-brainer.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 12, 2014

We should think of the creation and growth of a high valued company as the sum of three parts, with three distinct classes of participants helping to make real value out of a raw start-up. Email readers, continue here.] So co-management is the second group to share in the bounty upon a liquidity event.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

When Ive asked mentors of mine who have worked in big companies about the role of the CTO, they usually talk about the importance of being the external face of the companys technology platform; an evangelist to developers, customers, and employees. So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?"

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

And since a startup thatsucceeds ordinarily makes its founders rich, that implies gettingrich is doable too. undergrad could build something better as a class project. Its not what people learn in classes at MIT and Stanford that has made technology companiesspring up around them. Ideally you want between two and four founders.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 26, 2009 A real Customer Advisory Board A reader recently asked on a previous post about the technique of having customers periodically produce a “state of the company&# progress report. I consider this an advanced technique, and it is emphatically not for everyone.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I would add, though, a further question: Do new employees write code on their first day? So if an employee pushed code that broke the site, wed ask: why didnt our cluster immune system catch that? I am an avid reader of Joel, and your article here is a great addition to his already brilliant check-list. Completely necessary.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Meanwhile, the rash of early liquidity and recent IPOs — unsatisfying as they were — gave liquidity to thousands of employees at large companies, and a subset of those made very real money. “Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. And in fact, overall trends are a second-order effect for founders.”

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Up and Running

JANUARY 13, 2016

We’re grateful for our readers, LivePlan users, and Bplans members out there every day starting and running amazing small businesses! But now it’s finally over and we’re able to start the next phase of our business teaching classes and having a community space for New York City quilters.” Nebula Works office.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Rather than reinvent the wheel, I would point readers to Martin Kleppmann’s useful blog post with graphs illustrating the effects of a valuation cap on entrepreneurs, seed investors and later-round (typically VC) investors. At that time, the MySpace team had grown to some 30 or 40 employees, housed in separate office space in Santa Monica.)

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

11:00 AM: Online Advertising: Losing the Race to the Bottom Hilton D – How individuals and groups can maintain some shred of dignity and support themselves by creating ad and sponsorship programs that benefit and respect publishers, readers and advertisers. 12:30 PM: CrowdControl: Changing The Face Of Media Or Hype?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Even worse, in my opinion, is that I know there are at least a few readers out there who read the previous paragraph and thought, "those arent hard choices to make; its obvious what you should choose." It has to balance competing goals of establishing clear ownership, while avoiding talented employees getting stuck.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. Add a class name to buttons, forms, quotes, etc. Earth Class Mail. online web site class for novices. Event platforms. Eventbrite.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

News publications print vanity metrics because they want to give their readers information about the companies they cover. By only releasing vanity metrics , companies co-opt the press into helping them mislead others. Are employees paying more attention to those reports than to the positive press coverage? The solution?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 23, 2009

Best of all, I got word they are specially opening this event up to you, dear readers. Priority will be given to employees of companies participating in the fbFund REV program, but I am confident that there will be room for members of the general public who want to attend. As always, if youre a reader, please do say hello.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 31, 2009

Readers get an early sneak peak. Do you know when will the final price be determined as I am really hoping i can bring my co-founders to the event as well. Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 31, 2009 The Lean Startup workshop coming soon I am currently gearing up for my talk tomorrow at the Web 2.0

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 23, 2009

I hope this gives readers some ideas they can apply to their own situation. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Happy holidays to you all!

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 20, 2009

Heres an excerpt: Read the stories of successful startups and, if the founders are willing to be honest, you will see this pattern over and over again. So if youre a reader of this blog and also of Radar, what kinds of information from this blog would you want to see explained over there? Join the Lean Startup discussion at Web 2.0

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 20, 2009

Because this radical notion of progress is located firmly in the heads of its employees, and not in any artifacts they produce, the lean startup is employee-centric and knowledge-obsessed. How I would frame the topic for business/tech readers: Is Seed,Series A->C funding destined to disappear for software startups?

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Here, the “public” includes your customers, prospects, your employees, vendors, and others who connect in any way with your brand. Remember that you should evaluate both internal (your employees) and external (everyone else) perceptions of your brand. This isn’t an issue you can afford to ignore.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Perhaps 15 years ), probably your reader needs further references, and some hands-on experiences to appreciate your post. Programmers, and certainly not the visionary founders, are the most qualified for that task. #6 Co-founders and outsourcing work the same. Greg C (2010-06-19) # These are great suggestions.

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