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Transcript of Crafting Growth-Focused Content for Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

I then moved my family to Kansas to be a music guy out there. I was just going to get hired somewhere. Your resume looks a little odd when you’ve been in church work for like 12 years, so nobody hired me, and I thought, “Oh, I guess I need to start my own business again.” This is where my story gets crazy.

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Transcript of How to Build a Community Around Your Business

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Jono Bacon: Because the companies that tend to fail in this is they hire a community manager and that community manager essentially acts as like an ambassador to the community. In Kansas City. But in the early stages it does require a reasonable chunk of work. It’s part of the product.”

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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Or the growth of Dwolla in Iowa or C2FO being built in Kansas City? While the costs of starting a tech company have plummeted it still does take money to hire a team, launch products and market oneself. 20 years ago could you have imagined ExactTarget becoming a multi-billion company in Indianapolis? Welcome to the future.

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The Fantastical, Stupendous, Wonkariffic Tale of How Ample Hills Creamery Raised a $4 Million Venture Capital Round

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It fits just as well into Gowanus, Brooklyn as it does Iowa, Kansas, and Wyoming. After talking to them about how much they should raise, who they should hire, and what they should focus on, I realized that this was the very same kind of conversation I have with all of my other early stage founders.