Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

He is an entrepreneur, podcast host, and community builder. He is the co-founder of Boast.ai, where he leveraged the Community-Led Growth model to bootstrap the company. He is also the co-founder of Traction, a community empowering over 100k innovators through connections, content, and capital. He is the co-founder of Boast.ai

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch (00:00): This episode or the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by the Nudge Podcast, hosted by Phil Agnew and brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network. Marketing Podcast with Mike Evans.

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Scalable Startup

JULY 20, 2013

But more importantly, the labor of moving software around by humans and physical media and even the Internet has been taken down to almost zero. The software just doesn’t leave it’s cloud hosts anymore. This saves energy, mistakes, cost, time, client computer memory and bandwidth. It vastly reduces computer waste.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs. The discounts?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. The lean startup is an application of Lean Thinking.

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Software By Rob

MAY 4, 2009

Except the shopping cart (shopify.com – awesome hosted cart) charged a percentage of sales that wound up totaling about $80. And credit card processing fees took another 3%, which left me with a net profit of around 10% of my gross revenue. No big deal, I still made a few hundred bucks, right?

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. They sell high-end WordPress hosting, and every sale requires a strong commitment to change on the part of the customer — migrating your blog is not easy or fun for most people. Greatest Hits.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. The founders may believe they are onto such a good idea that they don’t want to give up any equity. Award contract - Negotiate a software development contract.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 31, 2021

5- WhatsApp founders. One of my favorite business turnarounds is the story of the founders of WhatsApp. Airbnb struggled to attract investors when it first began in 2008, requiring founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia to manufacture bespoke cereal boxes to earn money. billion in revenue annually. Photo Credit: Ella Hao.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

I wasn’t a very good software developer, and I was only modestly capable as a UX designer, but I learned enough to recognize clean code and effective, inspiring design when I saw it. Hunter Brennick , co-founder and COO of Landing Lion , emphasizes humility and listening for product managers.

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. Doubling SaaS Revenue By Changing The Pricing Model. Most technical founders abominably misprice their SaaS offerings to start out. It only tends to weakly proxy revenue. Greatest Hits.

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Transformify

AUGUST 27, 2017

It all starts with the founders. In some cases, the founders may even build the MVP themselves. Outsource the development of your MVP. This could be the right move as the software development companies have well-trained teams which mitigates the risk. Then the hiring begins. The downside? We have been there.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

There are a whole range of valid reasons why non-developers would want to dictate the production release schedule (Seasonal/timing issues, marketing, fulfillment concerns, documentation/training, revenue controls, legal/regulatory. It lets the customer and development team spot problems with calculations almost immediately.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 18, 2021

Just ask the 40,000+ entrepreneurs who’ve used our platform to collectively generate over $2 billion in revenue.”. The demo uses the same characters as the Headspace mobile app and website and is narrated by founder Andy who delivers its meditation classes. Each week, Snowflake hosts a live demo on a different topic.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

More connections means more business, more investors, more revenue, and more growth. Capital Factory focuses on hosting community programming that educates and inspires entrepreneurs, programmers, designers, and community leaders. The next time we host it in Austin, we will invite venture capitalists from Houston.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

In this post, I describe why we prefer to fund companies whose founder will run the company as its CEO. As we looked at the history of great technology companies, we discovered that founders ran an overwhelming majority of them for a very long time, including: Acer—Stan Shih. Thomas Watson, Sr. The innovation business. Moral authority.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

The subject of measuring market size comes up every few weeks in my interactions with startup founders, and one point I always raise is the difference between a top-down and bottom-up approach. Bottom-Up There are many bottom-up approaches to sizing a market; I discuss the approach I use in my developer’s guide to launching a startup.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

You cant make these global efficiency improvements until you get clear about the goal of your development process. That leads to a seemingly-obvious question: what is progress in software development? In a lot of cases, thats just a fancy name for revenue or profit, but not always.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

As I said in The Five Minute Guide to Becoming a Freelance Software Developer , an accountant is not an optional expense. Technical Expenses A few of these apply only to companies that build software, but most apply across the board. Decent hosting with decent support will run $20/month.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

For startups that are tempted to mimic this behavior, I suggest reading the great account of the early Apple in Founders at Work.) Not even if its generating revenue. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Heres hoping Steve will share those techniques with us someday.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Utilizing a recently developed innovative technology, BetterView leads a revolution in the content world. Content providers and owners facing diminishing revenues from their SD sales, due to increasing demand for HD content, can now restore the full economic value of their vast archives, by transforming them to True HD.

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davetroy.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

It gets some traction, some revenue, some press, raises some money, gets huge and then sells out to Google or Disney or whoever. Host a Tweetup, targeted to people you want to attract. blog comments powered by Disqus Search About Dave Troy Im an entrepreneur, software developer, and community builder in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Building a product involves a large up-front time investment , and as a result is far riskier than becoming a consultant because you have to wait months to find out if your effort will generate revenue. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. 15 Chris on 11.19.08

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

Furthermore, I think most of what you are suggesting is applicable in companies/ industries that are not software development. It's so old and so buggy that it's a real pain to ship 3D software on it. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 22, 2012

Maybe they’re stingy because they’re still being run by a parsimonious small-business founder (like me!) And since the sales effort isn’t much different between 75 seats or 750, this is a lot more work for the revenue. Worst of both worlds. Why is it like this? who is still straightening used staples to save pennies.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

In the bayarea, TEDx Bay Area Women organized an event hosted at SAP in Palo Alto, California. Founder of JackCards.com. CEO of a software development outsourcing firm (Ukraine). Business development consultant. Since then its scope has become ever broader. I met 2-4 women whom I’ve met at other SV events.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 28, 2009

Its an essential discipline of good software development, especially in startups. Code that Fowler would be in awe of is useless if it does not generate revenue. Fortunately, my co-founders are also engineers and understand the need for some of the stuff I do. Heres a company I met with recently.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

In the bayarea, TEDx Bay Area Women organized an event hosted at SAP in Palo Alto, California. Founder of JackCards.com. CEO of a software development outsourcing firm (Ukraine). Business development consultant. Since then its scope has become ever broader. I met 2-4 women whom I’ve met at other SV events.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer. Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs. Programmers, and certainly not the visionary founders, are the most qualified for that task. #6 Doing so does not take advantage of a software developers experience.

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