Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 10, 2011

Just so we’re clear, I don’t receive anything for promoting this tool, I just think it’s the right one for this use.) Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : As the importance of Facebook as small business marketi. 5 Steps to Successful Fac. Currently Facebook boasts somewhere in excess of 400 mi.

Small Business 58

Small Business Marketing Software Review Social Media 58

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. You could just outspend. You could use brute force to get the word out. Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend. The Curation Team. Well, half of it. Photo credit: Elizabeth Weinberg.).

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. Previously, he was Chief Operating Officer & Strategic Creative at USA GROUP, INC.,

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 12, 2009 Why PHP won When I first learned to program on the web, Perl + CGI was the dominant platform. January 16, 2009 2:54 AM DROCKsaid. Also, PHP is the new BLACK [link] January 16, 2009 9:24 AM Anonymoussaid. January 16, 2009 12:25 PM Anonymoussaid. You should try Python.

PHP 166

PHP Software Review Ruby San Francisco 166

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Revenue growth: 51% YoY (2010), 1% YoY (2009), 131% YoY (2008). 2010 Operating Income: $16 million. Historically more revenue came from distribution/lead-gen (57% in 2007), but this tipped in 2008 though appears to be steady from 2009 to 2010 at about 58% advertising and 42% distribution. round closed Feb 2005.

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Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

FDI, M&A’s WEIGHED DOWN BY CRISIS IN 2009, UPTURN EXPECTED IN 2010. billion in 2009, compared with $10.8 63 Israeli companies were acquired or merged in 2009, a 28 percent drop from an average of 87 companies in the previous three years. The top ten deals in 2009 yielded 80 percent ($2.02 billion in 2008 and $8.8

OTC 68

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

million raised, per CrunchBase): It came from my deep frustration renting as an undegrad at Oxford for the first time back in 2005. We started getting feedback on the idea starting March 2009 (second semester) and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive. Do you find yourself hiring operators or PMs with that background?

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I’ve been operating the business full time for 10 months now and only recently felt the need to move out of my basement. 1M Shashank says: November 2, 2009 at 6:12 am Hi Mike. You can also add me on skype: shashank.shalabh Mity na temat tworzenia udanego startupu | Polishwords Blog says: November 24, 2009 at 10:06 am [.]

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Altgate

MARCH 3, 2011

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← The Real Reason Google May Fail Operating System for the Classroom Posted on March 3, 2011 by admin By now most people have heard of Sal Khan and the Khan Academy.

Operations 52

Operations California Venture Capital Video 52

David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Despite their success, Startup America’s goal is to continue for three years, and then fold their operations and let the infrastructure they’ve created exist independently. Case Foundation didn’t have a website until 2005, although founded 1997. We’ve moved >$1b in resources from the corporate sector to nonprofits.

America 144

America DC Startup Aggregator 144

Altgate

APRIL 26, 2009

I’ve mentioned this survey several times before, but this time I bring news of the 2009 survey opening to participants. I think the 2009 data will be very interesting as it will reflect the effects of the overall economy as well as provide global comparisons. 2009 Startup Executive Compensation Survey Opens [.]

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Term Sheet Venture Capital Startup 60

Austin Startup

APRIL 26, 2020

In honor of Netflix’s big beat today in the very unfortunate age of COVID-19, I decided to revisit my four-part Bazaarblog series while I was CEO of Bazaarvoice (from our inception in 2005 to our IPO in 2012). Blockbuster introduced their “End of Late Fees” program on January 1, 2005. The name of the last part? published on Mar.

Technical Review 62

Technical Review Campaign Video Naming 62

Altgate

DECEMBER 17, 2009

 You probably have operating budgets for each department. ← 2009 Startup Executive Compensation Survey Results More “Open Source&# Legal Tools → Comments are closed.  But today I got an interesting question the answer I wanted to share here.

Venture Capital 47

Venture Capital Metrics Startup Software Review 47

500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

First Round became a very active investor in consumer internet and e-commerce, on a rather lean investment budget, with several notable exits (including Mint.com to Intuit in 2009 for $170M). A few years before all this scandalous VC behavior occurred, in 2005 Paul Graham ) started Y Combinator. They are operators, through and through.

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Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Every startup I knew in 2005 (when I started my second company) was using this. Spawning of Micro VCs.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 22, 2011

That was the challenge faced by former real estate agent Alex Joseph, co-founder of Nuviva Medical Weight Loss Clinics, now a growing franchise operation based in Florida. “We That’s when the old vision clicked with the market’s desires, and Joseph opened up the first Nuviva Weight Loss Clinic in 2009.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

After a somewhat disappointing congress in 2009, in which companies showcased products from previous years, this year is expected to be faster, greener and ‘cloudier’ Looking at the conference agenda , it’s not hard to spot the trends for 2010: Mobile Clouds – additional storage and new revenue streams to operators.

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Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

Altgate

APRIL 22, 2009

← There is Too Much Venture Capital…Not Too Little 2009 Startup Executive Compensation Survey Opens → [link] Are You In Need Of A Payday Loan Now? link] How to make a 100000 mobile phone prepaid card holders to instruct a telco operator to deduct 0.50 Bookmark the permalink. Loans Blog [.]

Term Sheet 52

Term Sheet Intellectual Property Venture Capital Hawaii 52

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

"I just directly observed that the technology for doctors was really far from what they needed to operate at a high productivity level," he told me. His first instinct was that "somebody" should rethink how a doctor operates, how they communicate with the patient, and basically how the whole concept of care delivery works. EB : Yeah.

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Turkey Los Angeles California 60

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Law enforcement is a tough industry for outsiders to gain entry into for reasons of trust, liability and a lack of understanding for the why and how the profession operates. I started my company in 2005 as a full-service marketing agency. I was Badge Number 1266. 9- After reading an inspiring story. Photo Credit: Jennifer Maggiore.

Naming 81

Naming Entrepreneur LLC Social Media 81

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 8, 2010

His paper, titled “ My Contributions to Science and Society &# (pdf file), tells Katzir’s story in as an autobiography intricately enlaced in the story of the state of Israel, from its inception as a pre-independence to a flourishing democracy in the middle east with a thriving economy, when the paper was written in 2005.

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Government Technology Community 88

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 23, 2011

The folks at Eloqua and JESS3 created a very useful infographic that helps visually illustrate this total body of work strategy and also sheds a light on the various marketing purposes of every type of content, and how to look at content creation from an operational viewpoint. Note: There have been some updates since I published th.

Small Business 68

Small Business Marketing Social Media RSS 68

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 13, 2011

Design and Operate a Referral System – part 2 Posted by : John Jantsch on Jun 13, 2011 | 5:54 am Categories : AMEX OpenForum , Marketing Strategy Tags : AMEX OPEN , New York Times Popular Posts Adding the Facebook Like. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : 5 Steps to Successful Fac.

Small Business 71

Small Business Customer Marketing New York 71

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Beth Cameron, Washington Post , 3/13/2020 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Out of the Crisis #16: Robert Schooley U.S. In fact, a coronavirus caused a shutdown as recently as 2005. Now later has come, and it seems to me like the collective delusion is still operative. Trump closed it." This is not ancient history.

Government 60

Government Africa America Washington 60

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 28, 2011

If a potential buyer can see how they too could operate your marketing system, even after you the owner is long gone, you’ll build value. Less dependent on you Done right, marketing builds the kind of repeatable momentum that can be documented and taught like a system. Buying a strong brand creates an entirely different set of math.

Marketing 64

Marketing Valuation Differentiation Lead Generation 64

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 26, 2011

link] Google Search Shortcuts – Google has a list of operators that you can use to do customer searches that will turn up lots of information on sites you are analyzing. link] SEOBook Toolbar – The SEOBook toolbar is a very robust tool that offers a full suite of stats right in your browser.

SEO 68

SEO Small Business Marketing Search 68

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. As of near the end of September 2009, we’re up 46% since the March 9th nadir (yes, I need to find a way to use one of my SAT words ; – ).

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IPO Investment Bankers Venture Capital Marketing 255

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

After I sold Smart Bear, that division has increased revenue and profit every year, for five years, even through the 2008/2009 economic disaster. And the same thing happened after we sold IT WatchDogs in 2005. Surely not. The crap of it is, those VC’s who continue to invest in Nguyen are acting rationally.

IPO 240

IPO Flash Bootstrapping Private Equity 240

YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Kevin Rose at TechCrunch , April 20, 2009: Digg founder Kevin Rose almost sold his wildly popular aggregator to Google in 2008, and subsequently turned his resources toward creating a much stronger independent business instead. Ben Cohen & Jerry Greenfield at Not Quite Nigella , Nov.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

► 2009. (36). Turning Good Ideas into Operational Reality. ► 2005. (1). Why CIOs Must Negotiate before Collaboration. ► December. (3). The Most Important Job of the CIO. What is Really Meant by Failing Early, Failing Oft. What Could Save Media Businesses. ► November. (3). No Scrum Master? No Problem.

Agile 40

Agile Architecture Offshore Software Developers 40

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

million through the Texas Enterprise Fund (TEF) for Facebook to create a sales and operations office in Austin. Perry’s request, the legislature created the TEF in 2003 and re-appropriated funding in 2005, 2007 and 2009 to help ensure the growth of Texas businesses and create more jobs throughout the state.

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Austin Texas Social Network Operations 76

David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Kupietzky has served as CEO and Director of Oversee.net since 2009. He then led the growth of the domain services division, expanded into the aftermarket business and built Oversee’s owned and operated portfolio of domain names into one of the worlds largest, firmly establishing the company as a leader in Internet real estate.

Naming 122

Naming Government Intellectual Property LLC 122

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

R ecord Low for European Venture Deals; Investment in China Up 32%; Canada Ahead of 2009 Totals. This is the lowest quarterly deal count for Europe since Dow Jones VentureSource began tracking the region ten years ago and represents a 25% drop in deal flow from 263 deals in the third quarter of 2009. million in 2009 to $7.4

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China Europe North America India 74

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MARCH 13, 2015

The Academy of Contemporary Music (ACM) was not a sparkle in anyone’s eye in 2005 when the former president of the University of Central Oklahoma, Roger Webb, and an unknown music promoter, Scott Booker met. Booker happened to be the manager of an OKC based rock band, The Flaming Lips. Scott Booker is CEO.

Oklahoma City 48

Oklahoma City Oklahoma Developer Nashville 48

VC Cafe

JUNE 24, 2011

According to Israel Venture Capital (IVC), Ra’anana-based Advasense raised $31 million in 2005-07 from Giza Venture Capital , BlueRun Ventures. When you build a disaster recovery system, you have to buy all the servers and storage and all the other things that go into it, and then you have to pay all the operational overhead.

United Kingdom 107

United Kingdom Venture Capital Taiwan 107

Altgate

JANUARY 16, 2011

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Lorem Ipsum is Evil Operating System for the Classroom → The Real Reason Google May Fail Posted on January 16, 2011 by admin Recently I’ve been reading a lot of ink (er, liquid crystal?) Bookmark the permalink.

CPA 72

CPA Advertising Distribution Search 72

Up and Running

JUNE 9, 2010

He says: Our sales had grown steadily since 2005; by 2008 we were doing more than $1 billion in gross merchandise sales annually — two years ahead of our original plan. This was in 2009. By early 2009, we were at a stalemate. Zappos continues to operate independently. Cash flow was very tight.

Silicon Valley 79

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Finance IPO 79