Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 18, 2013

3 Website Trends That Customers (and Business Owners) Will Love written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is Andy Hayes – Enjoy! I know what you’re probably thinking: oh, great, another trends post.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. Over the years we brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. What’s Different. Silicon Valley Transplants.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 22, 2015

In the last year alone, several have opened across the United States, with cafes in New York City, Oakland, California, and soon, Portland Oregon. I spoke with wife and husband team Kristen and Sergio Castillo, whose cat cafe, Purringtons, is set to open in Portland at the end of January. Get Your Customers to Do It For You.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

Building relationships with vendors and the local community. Where in your area will you find land or a building with the right zoning, size, facilities, and access for bringing in raw materials, attracting customers, and/or shipping out finished beer for distribution? Know your customers and your financials. Funding a brewery.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 20, 2011

The next couple of days are going to be amazing, as the Lean Startup community converges on San Francisco. As a reminder, the first 200 people to show up will get one of the very first copies of the Lean Startup Book , a pre-publication printed galley. Product management and customer development, KISSmetrics.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 14, 2016

Even a mere 1 second delay can result in “11% fewer page views, a 16% decrease in customer satisfaction, and 7% loss in conversions.”. What’s “normal” for us is often alien to our customers. If we’re actually going to sell products, we need to quit thinking about what’s cool to us, and focus on what customers actually need.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 24, 2014

Over the years Dino and I brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. But today we are intentionally engineering six distinct activities to support this tech cluster: entrepreneurial density, university, transportation, capital, accelerator, and business community. University. Transportation.

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