Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 4, 2024

These trends highlight the increasing role of AI, hyper-personalization, decentralized communities, and authenticity in crafting impactful strategies. I shared actionable insights on leveraging generative AI, exploring platforms like Reddit and Bluesky, and embracing customer-centric values to build trust and loyalty.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 31, 2024

The most common analogies I’ve been considering with the current wave of generative AI are blockchain, self-driving cars, and Web 2.0. Blockchain There are a lot of similarities between this era of generative AI and the Blockchain. The stark difference between crypto and AI lies in their use cases.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2024

ChatGPT’s advanced voice mode and Eleven Labs are setting new benchmarks in conversational AI by enhancing voice quality and realism, NotebookLM’s natural voice podcast took the Internet by storm and new open source technologies are making high quality voice cloning easier than ever.

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI), and particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), have significantly transformed the search engine as we’ve known it. With Generative AI and LLMs, new avenues for improving operational efficiency and user satisfaction are emerging every day.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

He shares practical examples of how AI enhances customer interactions and tackles concerns about data privacy and the potential discomfort of overly personalized marketing. The conversation also touches on the challenges marketers face in content creation and the need for more thoughtful, effective communication strategies.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

An AI can understand spoken language. This can enable chatbots to have a conversation with people. AI can also be used to automate data conversion such as translations and decryptions, accelerating the ability to derive actionable insights. Attacks Against AI – Adversarial AI. AI Attack Surfaces.

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Generative AI has the potential to be a powerful tool for nonprofit organizations, but it also requires board members to understand the challenges and ethical concerns it presents, along with its benefits. Insider Intelligence predicts that generative AI adoption will climb to 77.8 million users by 2024.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

We are not too far off from the ability to segment customers in real time, create and launch marketing campaigns generated with AI and iterate on the creative materials based on the conversion data – a fully autonomous marketing cycle. It’s also multi-modal and can learn from both text and images.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 4, 2024

The breakneck speed of AI advancement is one of those areas where the stream of information is so constant and so dense, that it’s very hard to process it all, let alone STAND OUT in the crowd. This creates a challenge, but also an opportunity for startups in the generative AI space. apply here: [link] ).

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 2, 2024

Our conversation covers the ever-evolving landscape of SEO and how businesses of all sizes can adapt to the new era of consumer search behavior. Crafting Destination Content: Explore the concept of destination content and how it can drive engagement and conversions in the age of AI-powered search. AI is part of that story.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

While incumbents like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have vast resources and existing integrations, startups have the advantage of speed, focus, and the ability to attract top AI talent interested in building from the ground up. When it comes to Generative AI, the incumbents are not resting on their laurels.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 15, 2024

But in the coming age of generative AI, endless synthetic content and misinformation – there might be an opportunity for traditional media companies to regain their reputation as a 4th branch within a democracy. How can media companies transform generative AI from threat to opportunity ?

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Hunter Walker

MAY 17, 2024

I even love leading a really meaningful performance feedback conversation. Textio relied on both of these strategies for a few years before launching our first truly generative AI capabilities back in 2019. I love leading workshops for the team on how to tell effective stories with data. This work is my zone of excellence.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The fields that generative AI addresses—knowledge work and creative work—comprise billions of workers. Generative AI can make these workers at least 10% more efficient and/or creative: they become not only faster and more efficient, but more capable than before. Sequoia, Generative AI: A Creative New World.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

So I look, I I'll give you an example, uh, the answer to that using like generative AI, which is like the hottest conversation topic in the world right now, right? So I will, I'll use generative AI as an example again, right? Is it just an evolution? Rodney Zemmel (04:46): No. Rodney Zemmel (09:04): Yeah.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2025

Email Marketing Track open rates, click-through rates, and conversion rates to understand what types of emails and subject lines are performing the best. Paid Advertising Monitor metrics like cost per click, return on ad spend, and conversion rates to evaluate the effectiveness of your paid campaigns.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 14, 2023

Generative AI might be the next major platform shift and Big tech has no intention to stay behind. Building foundational models in generative AI because it requires a lot of engineers, vast cloud resources and huge amounts of data, all the capabilities that big tech posses. We’re now at a pivotal moment in our AI journey.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2023

I think Mike Lenox (01:32): , I do enjoy writing John Jantsch (01:35): (01:36): So, uh, my first question is gonna sound like a silly question, but I think it's, I think it's legitimate based on all the conversations I have with people about strategy, um, and their, uh, confusion about what the term actually means. , Mike Lenox (04:30): Yeah.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 15, 2025

Generative AI Explosion – Now that the internet is a brain and not just a filing cabinet we are about to see unprecedented levels of creativity, automation, and efficiency in content creation, design, and problem-solving. Just like a staff member would.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2023

And new technologies, like generative AI, are creating new opportunities for founders to stand out in the consumer space. Lighttricks – the suite of mobile apps for photo and video editing, and most recently generative AI photo and video generation. Much has changed since then. founded in 2019, raised $13.5M

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 8, 2024

In our conversation, Alan delves into the core principles of Lean Marketing and how it can transform the way businesses connect with their audience in today’s saturated landscape. Even prior to generative ai, we had content farms where people would just generate crappy low quality content. Alan (09:16): Exactly.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

When you're asking, for example, your Amazon device, I'm not going to say the word begins with an A and she's listening right now for it's wake word and it's going to start chiming in on this conversation. Who wants to read a thousand page book? (01:33):

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

We spent months having general conversations, but eventually, we sat down and did a Founder Dating Quiz. For years, though, AI just wasnt good enough. For example, integrating AI into customer data systems, and enabling actions (like processing payments, updating CRMs, or sending SMS messages).

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 17, 2024

Those still are whether they were using generative AI or not. This is predicting this conversation, right? It's going to be finding passionate people who can tell a unique story that can be woven into content that's assisted by AI has always been the magic.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

To learn more about the history of Bad Robot, listen to Hoffman and Abrams’ conversation on the episode “Make Room for Magic” on the Masters of Scale podcast.). It’s becoming one conversation. When you feel that thing you can’t have a conversation about, it’s the universe saying, Yeah, yeah, that. So there’s that thing.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 6, 2024

Conversion Rates : Free-to-paid conversion rates vary, with freemium products typically seeing a median conversion rate of around 5%, while free trials have a median rate of about 10%. Metric Unremarkable Good Excellent Outlier ARR <$500k $500k-$1.5m $1.5m-$2.5m >$2.5m Fundraising has become meaningfully tougher.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 22, 2023

Pictory – This tool creates short high-conversion videos from long form content, complete with stock footage, music, and voiceovers. Stockimg.ai – An AI image generation tool designed to easily generate AI logos, book covers, posters, and more.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Investors conversations go much easier when you already have some form of validation that your game mechanics work well even with a small cohort of testers. Generative AI poses a lot of interesting new opportunities in this space and you’ll be smart to be ahead of the curve. Demonstrate traction. games, every single day.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

For you have, at your fingertips, a technology revolution that doesn’t come around more than once every few hundred years: Artificial Intelligence—or AI. We are not only entering the AI Generation. You are the AI generation. You are Generation AI. Now that’s a conversation with—and about—beauty!

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

You're to them directly that this one way street is a two way street and they have ownership in the conversation and writing is the same thing, and it's a complicated feat to do it well because you're talking to nobody but also somebody specific. So it's specifically regenerative AI and text generative ai, which is where I live.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 19, 2024

During our insightful conversation, we discussed the emerging concept of ‘intelligent content splintering’ and explored how repurposing video content can maximize your marketing efforts. Hit enter, scroll about a third way down the page a little bit more now with the generative AI at the top. And that's the key.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2024

We weren’t poor, but we didn’t have a lot either, and there were always conversations around the dinner table about how to make it stretch further. That’s why I started Craggle, to simplify and streamline the home loan process using cutting-edge Generative AI. I come from a family where money was always a bit of a mystery.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

One deep conversation with a user who loves your product is worth more than a hundred lukewarm surveys.” It’s so much easier to create content these days with generative AI. “When building for your first thousand users, you’re not looking for statistical significance – you’re looking for insights.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

That’s agentic AI – systems that can independently execute complex workflows and make decisions. Real-world example: Sierra’s AI agents can now handle entire customer service conversations, making decisions about refunds, escalations, and follow-ups without constant human oversight.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

We weren’t poor, but we didn’t have a lot either, and there were always conversations around the dinner table about how to make it stretch further. That’s why I started Craggle, to simplify and streamline the home loan process using cutting-edge Generative AI. I come from a family where money was always a bit of a mystery.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 20, 2024

He talked about where we are in the timeline of generative AI and it made me realise that we’re making an interesting shift now. The Modern AI Stack – Menlo Ventures ( source ) If not LLMs, where will the value accrue in Generative AI? So where should VC investors place their bets?

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VC Cafe

MAY 2, 2023

The theme of this year’s conference was ‘Possibility’ and there was a significant focus on AI and generative AI, and the possibilities they unlock. Theme 1: The Power of Generative AI The first AI talk was by Greg Brockman , co-founder and CEO of OpenAI.

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