Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

So when Lulu started in 2002, so about 20 years ago, we just celebrated our 20th anniversary. And I think you're right, you touched on the advent of technology surrounding publishing, as well as all the different things you can do now as a self-published author, as it relates to, you know, distribution channels.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. In 2002 after exiting his second company he was attracted to the variety of being a VC. Do you think a multi-channel distribution strategy is important to guard against unforeseen changes? (51:30

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

We recently wrapped up our strategy offsite, an annual event that brings together the members of our very distributed team – 12 different cities in four different countries – to discuss what our aspirations and ambitions are for the coming year. So from day one, my knowledge about how to do a startup was zero.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

In 2002, Elon Musk created Space X. Build systems and processes that enable your team to create and distribute content seamlessly. Jeff Bezos’s private space technology company Blue Origin was founded back in 2000. You’d think that no one could recreate a product so sophisticated and advanced as space rockets, right?

Marketing 109

Marketing Social Media Non-Compete Audience 109

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

How are they organized and distributed? A research-based archetypal representative of your customer based on various attributes, attitudes, and characteristics. They’re deliberately open-ended and designed to spur emotion and depth: What’s your role at your company? Explain at high level and day to day. Career background?

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Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

But the first real time we had a big celebration and folks felt like we’d “made it” was the party we held in the parking lot on February 14, 2002 when PayPal went public. The company held holiday parties at the end of each year and lots of friendships were spawned from work collaborations.

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Startup Cofounder Seed Stage Boston 188

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. This means more people behind a screen, which means more opportunity across distribution channels. This post surveys what people have done in the past—and what marketing leaders are doing now—to make it through tough times and thrive in the post-crisis era.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 7, 2017

One of the best definitions I’ve found, which expounds a bit more, comes from Tony Zambito circa 2002 : Tony Zambito: Buyer personas are research-based archetypal (modeled) representations of who buyers are, what they are trying to accomplish, what goals drive their behavior, how they think, how they buy, and why they make buying decisions.

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Software Review Design Agile Analytics 102

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

Founded in 2002 and expanded after founders graduated from CMU in 2006. Company plans to use money to expand inventory and distribution capabilities, and build more social features. -Allows customers to select potential inventory through Be the Buyer program. Has 150 employees and is opening a HQ in SF and a supply-chain office in LA.

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IPO Venture Capital Private Placement Cofounder 242

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

The strangest thing about this is that I designed it in 2002 when I was hired by the Spirit advertising agency in London, I got paid for initial concepts and never heard about it ever since. The tenth design is for the purpose of not presenting myself as complete failure, a catalogue for CERTINA, Swiss watch manufacturer.

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Serbia Design Finland Advertising 104

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

In 2002, he stepped gingerly into the work-for-equity arena, with a modest investment in one start-up. CDW your 1-stop resource for configuration, activation & distribution. Indeed, he regularly turned away would-be clients who couldnt afford his fees, even if they offered him equity instead. Toshiba Laptops. We get notebooks.

Arizona 40

Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 18, 2011

I also plan to price it low so it has the potential for broad distribution. The Internet Bubble (2001 – 2002). Comments of any sort are welcome and encouraged! The table of contents, as of today, follows. The Boulder Entrepreneurial Community. Boulder As A Laboratory. Before the Internet (1970 to 1994).

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 7, 2010

  In fact, after having done a little research, FreshDirect was started in 2002 and now 8 years later is delivering in New Jersey.    In addition, its expansion is still local based-close to its distribution point in Long Island City, NY. 

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New Jersey San Francisco New York Distribution 103

BeyondVC

OCTOBER 7, 2010

In fact, after having done a little research, FreshDirect was started in 2002 and now 8 years later is delivering in New Jersey. In addition, its expansion is still local based-close to its distribution point in Long Island City, NY. This is in stark contrast to WebVan which was the first online grocer.

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VC Cafe

MAY 29, 2014

The Internet made it easy to distribute cognitive games, and mobile devices meant they could be played anywhere. Neuroscience Solutions Corporation (founded in 2002 and rebranded to BrainHQ ), Lumosity (founded in 2005) and Fitbrains (2007, now a Rosetta Stone company) are the most well known examples of second wave cognitive gaming.

Marketing 162

Marketing Mobile Cofounder Venture Capital 162

Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

Each of the SBIC funds were raised in the 2000 – 2002 time period. The control over distributions and negative incentives to hold or distribute capital often generates bad decisions when companies go public. I’m an investor in over 40 VC funds around the world (mostly in the US) and three of them are SBIC funds.

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View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

But the first real time we had a big celebration and folks felt like we’d “made it” was the party we held in the parking lot on February 14, 2002 when PayPal went public. The company held holiday parties at the end of each year and lots of friendships were spawned from work collaborations.

Startup 120

Startup Cofounder Seed Stage Boston 120

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. Distribution channels, brand loyalty, etc. Innovators are not entrepreneurs. Building an entrepreneurship ecosystem. How can corporations work more closely with universities?

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Incubator Lean Programming Government 333

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2019

But in 2002, Anytime Fitness succeeded by introducing just a couple of fresh components – 24/7/365 access for members and convenient locations in neighborhood strip malls. Your execution and unique spin will make it new and interesting. Anytime Fitness Pumps Up an Old Concept. “My Idea is Too Vague!

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Product Startup Audience eCommerce 127

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Omer : I have been online since 2002. Omer : In addition, we’re in the field of software distribution so you could say we compete with OpenCandy , etc. In the future, our goal is to become a leading platform for software distribution and monetization. Below is the transcript of our exclusive interview.

Networking 111

Networking PPC Israel Advertising 111

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Omer : I have been online since 2002. Omer : In addition, we’re in the field of software distribution so you could say we compete with OpenCandy , etc. In the future, our goal is to become a leading platform for software distribution and monetization. Below is the transcript of our exclusive interview.

Networking 111

Networking PPC Israel Advertising 111

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Omer : I have been online since 2002. Omer : In addition, we’re in the field of software distribution so you could say we compete with OpenCandy , etc. In the future, our goal is to become a leading platform for software distribution and monetization. Below is the transcript of our exclusive interview.

Networking 111

Networking PPC Israel Advertising 111

Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

But the first real time we had a big celebration and folks felt like we’d “made it” was the party we held in the parking lot on February 14, 2002 when PayPal went public. The company held holiday parties at the end of each year and lots of friendships were spawned from work collaborations.

Startup 100

Startup Cofounder Seed Stage Boston 100

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

The vast profits that product produced allowed HP in 2002 to buy Compaq, the leading brand of personal computer at the time. Instead of focusing on a single word or concept, they devote many pages explaining how to expand the brand into different products, different markets, different distribution, different price categories.

Silicon Valley 96

Silicon Valley Business Plan Stock America 96

BeyondVC

OCTOBER 7, 2010

In fact, after having done a little research, FreshDirect was started in 2002 and now 8 years later is delivering in New Jersey. In addition, its expansion is still local based-close to its distribution point in Long Island City, NY. This is in stark contrast to WebVan which was the first online grocer.

New Jersey 60

New Jersey San Francisco New York Distribution 60

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

Corner Piece Productions doesn’t have its own website currently, but here’s the site for West of Her, which picked up five Best Narrative Feature awards over our festival tour this summer, along with rave review from critics across the country, and is set for wide video on demand distribution this year.

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Naming Entrepreneur LLC Software Review 48

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 8, 2016

In 1998, when I started ending up with lots of shares in public Internet companies, I came up with a formulaic approach for any public equities that are distributed to me (either from our funds or other VC funds). In 2002, I decided not to own any public company stocks except for companies that I directly invested in as private companies.

Flash 70

Flash Equity Stock Finance 70

finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001. Overall, the fund-of-funds is 97% called for 45 funds raised between 1999 and 2002. In parenthesis is the cumulative distribution divided by called capital.

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Naming Term Sheet Private Equity Equity 49

Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 14, 2012

I sold the first company I founded, a computer technology integrator, to private equity in 2002. We then wrote out our distributions from there, on the bank starter checks. Here’s the problem. when I tell you my number your are going to judge me and yourself. We’ll get to that in a moment. Depositing Six Figure Checks.

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.Net Securities and Exchange Commission California Angel Investor 167

Eric Friedman

APRIL 2, 2008

The culmination of this brainstorming has left me thinking a lot about embeddibility and how the future of applications and software will be distributed. According to my own timeline, I would say 2002. Distribution networks. Lets take a look at exactly what I am talking about. Who is making the widgets?

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Widget Advertising Distribution HTML 60

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

It was very educational for a lot of us to go through the dot-com crash, because you remember, in 2002, like there were a number of universal truths asserted in 2002; the Internet didn’t matter, consumer Internet business was dead.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

Feld Thoughts

APRIL 21, 2016

In 2001 and 2002 I learned a brutal set of lessons, including experiencing that $100 million of paper money going to $0 when Interliant went bankrupt. If you don’t know DPI, it’s “distributed to paid in capital and answers the question “If I gave you a dollar, how much money did you actually give me back?”

Marketing 70

Marketing Down Round Startup IRR 70

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 1, 2015

Social media (2002). The Mobile Phone (1973). In 1973, Motorola launched the first handheld mobile phone. The thing was a beast, but it was also a harbinger of the good times to come. Photo: Wikipedia ). Every day (well almost every day) I wake up with a reminder from Facebook that this friend or that one has a birthday today.

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Small Business Social Media China Mobile 48

Pascal's View

APRIL 22, 2013

While I have been to Israel many times since my first trip in 2002, I was fortunate join an outstanding program sponsored by the Philanthropy Workshop West for this trip.

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Israel Portland United States New York 37

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 11, 2015

When Elon Musk received $200 million from the proceeds of the PayPal acquisition in 2002, he re-invested everything to build the next big thing: $100 million in SpaceX and $100 million in Tesla. . #6 Passion While everyone wants to make money, good VCs look for more in an entrepreneur than the desire to cash out.

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San Francisco Churn Rate Silicon Valley Engineer 48

Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

This enabled consolidation among the brokerage houses and banks, which led to the loss of multiple distribution channels for securities and reduced the ability for small players to survive. (This is a good example of technology driven market change being accelerated by new securities regulations). cents or 6.25 cents or 6.25

Equity 31

Equity Securities and Exchange Commission IPO Marketing 31

Transformify

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Managing distributed workforce and remote teams was not something totally new for them. However, a day ago, it has been reported that the confirmed COVID-19 cases have reached 2002, the highest number outside of China. installed on their laptops.

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