Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

He is currently on a mission to empower 1,000 agencies to become vertical-market specialists, leveraging his extensive experience and insights. Key Takeaways Corey Quinn underscores the significance of vertical market specialization in transitioning from founder-led sales to scalable growth for agencies. This is John Jantsch.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2014

This hiring challenge has pushed several startups to get creative and take an innovative approach to recruiting. Today’s trend of acqui-hires can result in some dissatisfied technical teams post acquisition. Last year Facebook opened a temporary office in Vancouver to train newly hired developers while they wait for U.S.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

This typically includes: Relationships with relevant service providers in your vertical, often with pre-negotiated discounts: coaches, lawyers, accountants, common software vendors, consultants. A well-organized library of best practices for founders in your vertical, which you can share as appropriate. AskAnything.VC

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I would discover that there was a more effective alternative in building a marketing department than hiring traditional marketers with MBA’s. I chose to hire engineers from within each of our target markets and set up “Steve’s one month MBA course for engineers.” These hires were definitely not your standard marketing types.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2014

This hiring challenge has pushed several startups to get creative and take an innovative approach to recruiting. Today’s trend of acqui-hires can result in some dissatisfied technical teams post acquisition. Last year Facebook opened a temporary office in Vancouver to train newly hired developers while they wait for U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Our industry just took one big step towards legitimacy with the hiring of renowned media exec Ynon Kreiz to run Maker Studios. Another major hire was Ryan Lissack who joined as CTO. The industry finally has one of their own at the helm of the largest YouTube network.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2021

You can hire more salespeople and practice social selling. . Are you going to grow vertically or horizontally? But what if you want to grow more or grow faster? You could invest in marketing and advertising. You could work to get more PR exposure. You could put together a client referral program.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

is scaling, your management team will need to devote significant time hiring and training new hires. By lead type and vertical? But if your team plans to grow by 50% or more in 2022, be prepared to factor in the new-hire ramp accurately. Model this in. 2) When an Org. Have you looked at customer retention by cohort?

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 26, 2016

There’s a lot of debate surrounding the right time to bring executive level hires into your start-up. First, your hiring/team building strategy should follow two key rules. When debating whether to hire in one area versus another, you should prioritize based on founders’ interest/knowledge in certain areas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2022

If you are interested in advancing your leadership, and achieving more success in this new Internet age, here are some principles to guide your focus: Foster the trend to flat teams versus vertical organizations. Capitalize on diversity to anticipate and meet change.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 4, 2015

While these ingredients certainly aren’t unique to hiring a ride, they do not cut across all industries and verticals. When it comes to hiring a ride, most of us are happy as long as a driver brings us from Point A to Point B in a clean car without getting lost. Underlying Commoditized Services.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Hiring an expert or a coach to walk you through establishing your business can help you minimise the chances of failure but some entrepreneurs will prefer walking alone. 1-Hiring inappropriate council. Hiring inappropriate council constituted a $15k mistake because the incorrect company was formed–costing us time and $15k.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Hiring an expert or a coach to walk you through establishing your business can help you minimise the chances of failure but some entrepreneurs will prefer walking alone. 1-Hiring inappropriate council. Hiring inappropriate council constituted a $15k mistake because the incorrect company was formed–costing us time and $15k.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Those folks may be hired in vertical specialties, and the larger and more successful incubators have enough deal flow to keep their agendas filled. Dreamit is to me a shining example of this vertical approach. They might ride your advice to become billionaires and hire you someday. In any event, don’t bloviate.

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deal architect

AUGUST 19, 2013

I was part of a group of analysts Gartner started hiring in the mid 90s to expand their business applications coverage. It launched the Administrative Application Services (AAS), Customer Relational Management (CRM), Integrated Logistics Services (ILS), and several vertical ones. Industry Commentary'

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

This focus has helped me recruit the best and the brightest in the field, build a world-class operation, and most of all, with all the knowledge in a specific vertical, help build a leading agency for food & beverage manufacturers that are looking to build a direct to consumer channel. Thanks to Mac Fadra, MAXiM Hair Restoration ! #12-

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2017

John Jantsch: One of the ways to really drive up profit is to specialize, is to go into a vertical market, is to go have a niche, to get known as an expert in X, Y, or Z. That could be a market vertical, or that could be an audience. Market vertical would be what you said, dentists. Dentists would be market vertical.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

While you are working away on your business plan, looking for ways to raise capital, finding the right people to hire, etc., Also, it’s made so many things, like hiring and other decisions, significantly simpler for us, because we can always look to our mission for help.”. Hire great people… then get out of their way.

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Up and Running

MARCH 28, 2022

Whether you are a cash-strapped business or a multinational corporation, the cost of taking on a new employee is as high as $4,129 per hire. These technological changes also affect the way hiring is done. However, no recruitment team has a bottomless budget or the time for hiring non-stop. Embracing changes in hiring.

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Transformify

APRIL 21, 2017

The demand for top talent is monumental, and the process of finding and hiring the best workers can be excruciating. Toptal , founded in 2010, aims to relieve the difficulties of hiring freelancers. We hire the best talent no matter where they want to work from. And we’ll be expanding into more business verticals soon.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

We’re aiming to bring that boost in productivity and cost-efficiency both to CPA firms and other professional services firms in other verticals (i.e. Hiring is a problem because when you become successful, people want your talent. Hiring is a problem because when you become successful, people want your talent.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

DataRails , the financial analysis and reporting software startup, has announced the hiring of David Rosenberg as the company’s new VP of customer success. He has a wealth of experience in the data vertical, having served in previous roles at companies such as Intel, AllScripts, and Vision.bi.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 6, 2013

No matter who it is that you are doing business with, you need to absolutely hire independent parties to complete due diligence on the other party such that there are no unnecessary risks that are taken or there are issues that are uncovered in the future that can put the entire relationship in jeopardy. Due Diligence.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2013

These vertical solutions would focus on specific pain pain points in the enterprise, such as logistics or customer relationship management. Hire forward-thinking people who have worked with some of the larger companies you’ve identified as competitors and/or partners. – PEOPLE.

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David Cohen

AUGUST 29, 2013

It’s not our first rodeo, as we’d graduated from [name of an unrelated accelerator] but we wanted and needed some support around our vertical. We paused because it was an inaugural cohort but being that it was vertical-specific and the managing director worked for a highly lauded startup in our vertical, we decided to go for it. ([a

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

Twilio does a phenomenal job; also look how devs are using your services 3) Be responsive 4) Find a community hero 5) Be a cheerleader 6) Listen actively: the opposite of marketing or broadcasting PANEL: New vertical APIs Adam Ludwin, CEO, Chain Daniel Yanisse, Founder & CEO, Checkr Andrei Pop, Founder & CEO, HumanAPI - rise of vertical APIs (..)

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

If the best client success person is in Oklahoma instead of LA, we’re going to hire her, (in fact, we did). Hire versatile players and lean into your team The SVB collapse reminded us that staffing matters. It emphasized to us that we need to make versatile hires with a focus on talent and ability to learn over experience.

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Transformify

JULY 4, 2018

Many HR experts are facing the same challenges over and over again- each freelancer or independent contractor is hired for a different period of time, the pay rate varies, the bank account details are to be collected and stored, etc. Our clients source candidates across all geographies and verticals. RMS Consultant. RMS Referral.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

grow into international markets, other industry verticals, and other product lines). we would not be limited by geography, industry verticals, or expanding into new product lines (data is a truly huge industry with no TAM, or total available market, limitations). and hopefully?—?grow I think really hard when I’m naming a new startup.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

I think now it's more about, I guess having a horizontal relationship with the people in your audience versus a vertical one. So vertical, you're the expert. A client will hire you, but the people in that room haven't necessarily volunteered. You're talking at someone, it's like a broadcast, it's like a YouTube.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 24, 2018

To reduce that high turnover among the young people BlitzMetrics employs, the brand has created a tight qualifying process, only hiring resourceful and diligent people and maintaining a set of realistic standards for success. People will change jobs seven times in their lifetime,” Young says.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 4, 2019

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. Through these efforts, we will continue to build trust and credibility in the eyes of all stakeholders – employees, customers, prospects and other vendors in our verticals. .

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Hearpreneur

MAY 26, 2017

Right now, we’re focused on teaching two verticals: Web Development and User Experience/User Interface (UX/UI) design. That means that if you enroll in one of our courses, we want to make sure that you receive a tangible benefit (make more money, get a promotion, get hired, save in your training costs, etc) in the shortest amount of time.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 7, 2022

Staff: You’ll also need to hire staff to run your warehouse. You may also consider using a mezzanine level to store additional products or use vertical space to save on floor space. One way to do this is by using vertical storage. You’ll need to make sure it’s organized to make sense for your business.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 14, 2019

This can include basic wardrobe training for new hires all the way to immersive image management for the C suite. Being able to master each of those verticals while staying relatable to my clients is what makes me so successful. What makes you unique? What is your unique selling proposition (USP)?

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

Vertical Scalability. Vertical scaling websites are acquiring hardware with increased capabilities. Moreover, the client saves a lot because there is no need to hire developers and spend money on additional servers. Mostly vertical scaling has problems of its own. Horizontal Scaling. There is no fixed amount.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

one that got us into a new vertical or geography or product line. I was responsible for hiring the team, fundraising, establishing our Board of Directors and Advisors, and selling our initial clients. I qualify “sell” with “easily” because we needed to give some leeway to the sales team in case it was a “strategic account”?—?one

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