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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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2018

If these technical challenges weren’t enough for drivers to manage, these autonomous driving features are appearing at the same time that car dashboards are becoming computer displays. auto-throttle – to manage engine power in order to maintain a selected speed. We never had cars that worked like this.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

The idea of aggregation is powerful in a world where your social communications are fragmented and increasingly hard to manage. Still, I think that to succeed they really need to focus on vertical niches where they can differentiate and have more focus on content quality and user acquisition. I first met the team at TechCrunch50.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 19, 2021

IoT brings organizations a whole new way of working wherein it becomes easier to control, manage, and monitor remotely located hardware. The world’s most sensitive industry vertical is for upheaval with IoT. It begins with automation that will require the dwellers to exert minimal effort in managing and controlling their devices. .

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2021

If your business continues to grow, you’ll need to switch over to the accrual basis eventually — the IRS requires all businesses with more than $5 million in annual revenue to manage their books using accrual accounting, so it makes sense to start with this method as early as possible.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 27, 2024

These systems come in various types, such as carousels, vertical lift modules, and mini-load systems, each tailored to meet specific warehouse requirements. For example, clamp attachments enable forklifts to manage items without requiring pallets. They also assist in managing tasks that would otherwise necessitate additional equipment.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Personal Finance Cross-account visibility and management – Today’s AI products can analyze and move money between accounts – as agents improve, they will make trades across accounts. AI – tax planning or wealth management augmented and in some cases replaced with AI. Complex transactions move from services ?

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Paul Graham’s recent essay, Founder Mode , describes the mindset that founders need to adopt to navigate the early stages of building a startup, and how they’re different than ‘manager mode’ which is traditional management/corporate best practices.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2024

But substantial investments are also being deployed into emerging startups, particularly into vertical applications. Vertical Applications Taking Off. A large portion of the funding and innovation in voice AI is concentrated on applications for specific industry verticals. This includes OpenAI’s latest round of $6.6

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Version One Ventures

MAY 6, 2014

Once implemented, the blockchain might be able to disrupt many verticals that are built around managing the transfer of ownership by replacing a centralized approach with a decentralized (and hence usually more efficient) approach. PayPal is a perfect example.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. Each of these GM divisions focused on its own day-to-day operations with each division general manager responsible for the division’s profit and loss. There’s the Alfred P.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Being able to hire talented professionals remains a difficult proposition in the current job market, especially when sourcing experienced developers, designers, and project managers. It fine-tunes the processes needed to properly manage these teams and execute projects. Manage Agency Growth to Expand at a Proper Rate.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 26, 2023

I spent a chunk of my career as a product manager in search (Shopping.com, GLG, Ask.com, AOL and Google) so I find this particularly interesting. Until now, to succeed in search companies needed two things: 1) an index of the web 2) an algorithm to organise the results.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2021

It managed to overcome security and privacy controversies and maintain a stronghold in video-call land. But within two weeks its Israeli founders managed to pivot their product into the virtual events world and have concluded 2020 with 100% growth and tens of millions of dollars in revenue.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 18, 2020

In the context of COVID-19, banks try to keep their customers safe, educating them on how to make contactless payments, use remote channels, and leverage digital tools to manage their finances and complete transactions. The post-Coronavirus world is now experiencing a complex change affecting all the industries and verticals.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

The recruitment types – championed by sites like LinkedIn, Monster or CareerBuilder – is built to facilitate vertical interaction between recruiter and job seeker, while the entrepreneur versions are typically networking sites for entrepreneurs that facilitate interaction but has little other inherent purpose.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

In times when venture capital is hard to get, investors extract high costs for failure (down-rounds, cram downs , new management teams, shut down the company.) Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups « Steve Blank (tags: startup product-management strategy) [.]

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 14, 2020

Thankfully, CPL One makes it easier to create and manage effective ad campaigns, and in a moment, we’ll explain further how. All they need to do is select a vertical, which will be the focus of the ad campaign, and then choose from a list of ready-made campaigns from an extensive library of pre-fabricated banners.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

For example, a startup SaaS company can use a specialized app to create a good product management process and keep track of the project's progress. We have better and more efficient management of sending, receiving, and storing supplies. All of these changes should make managing our finances easier and more accessible for everyone.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

By the late 1930′s when HP started, a small group (measured in hundreds) of engineers who made radio tubes were building the valleys’ ecosystem for electronics manufacturing, product engineering and technology management. Who would have known? Armstrong was a god!

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 10, 2014

Johnson had VanDerveer bring the basketball team down to the track so they could work on their foot speed and vertical jump by doing things like toe raises, lunges, short sprints, and barefoot training in the grass. It got results — VanDerveer reported that some kids improved their vertical jump eight inches in three months.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

In the cloud, it’s simple to automate disaster recovery, security , and management. Most cloud platforms have a management console that is intuitive to anymore or less experienced user, with which you can connect the necessary resources when necessary. Automation. Independence. Flexibility.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2012

I always tell teams I meet with, “The scarcest resource in your company is management bandwidth. And nobody is more important in this regard than senior management. ok, I know our product isn't yet verticalized. Spend it wisely.” ” Every company is built by a team and every team member matters.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 31, 2021

Early adopter verticals — such as software development and tech sales — is mostly in Gen 3. Throughout these months one thing became very clear with all the leaders and managers I spoke with — they didn’t have the software tools to engage and understand their teams, their customers and other constituents at a deep emotional level.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

Too often, CEOs and small business managers suffer from analysis paralysis. It looks as though you and I have the same taste in layout, no? I’ve written about this subject many times and could not agree more. This happens for any number of reasons. Some are afraid of making the wrong decision.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Also, if you’re an entrepreneur, make sure you hire and manage people so that they’re focusing on end goals and not motion or, once again, you’re screwed. What I thought would be a simple port is actually a major project I don’t have time to manage. They all have to be redrawn and reformatted.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 6, 2013

by JP James, Managing Director of Libreum Capital Management. Thinking Aloud deal making deals JP James Libreum Capital Management startup' I have been asked by more than one venture the question, what are the points that I need to consider whenever I put together a deal?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 14, 2018

by Cooper Hollmaier, technical SEO manager at Visiture. Using free tools like Google’s Keyword Planner and Google Search Console can help you identify which search queries users are typing in to find your business and where gaps in content exist for your vertical. Cooper Hollmaier is technical SEO manager at Visiture.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Jerry Nettuno, founder and CEO of online appointment scheduling service Schedulicity , believes that 2012 will be a year that will see a majority of small businesses harness and leverage the power of technology and online productivity tools to effective manage and grow their business. Small businesses move to the cloud.

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Up and Running

MAY 3, 2021

You might want to be an all-rounder SEO agency or, as we discuss later in this piece, you may want to specialize your verticals. Expertise in a specific industry vertical or process? Grow your SEO business by specializing in your verticals. Build a solid value proposition. Do you have a proprietary tool that you leverage?

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Route One: High LTV per user The exact definition of a “high” user LTV depends on the specific vertical, so it’s typically better to analyze the ratio between Customer Acquisition Costs (CAC) and the Life Time Value of the customer. As a VC, the biggest challenge in evaluating LTV models is that metrics can dramatically change at scale.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2017

The focus of the management team is largely internal – how do we cut cost without impacting the offering? The primary focus of the management team is external – what does a customer think about this product/service? All of this effort takes time away from your management team. A technology start-up is very different.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The fattest part of the market often demands more education, more handholding, more social proof through case studies & references, and a relationship with a salesperson or account manager to feel comfortable with the purchase. Identify tactics that have multiple owners to standardize data management. A writer creates the content.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

I was met by a very apologetic manager who said, “We’ve been trying to get a hold of you for the last week. The manager of the training department who hired you wasn’t authorized to do so – and he’s been fired. With my offer letter in-hand I reported to ESL’s Human Resources (HR) department.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Each month, we pick an up-and-coming vertical or theme and do a deep dive (with the help of Mattermark … portfolio plug). I never anticipated how helpful or relevant my research skills would be in VC. At Version One, we aim to be as thesis-driven as possible.

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deal architect

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

They had collapsed software, hosting, application management and upgrades into one contract. As SaaS vendors took off in the early 2000s, I was encouraged by their business model. But in recent years I have seen a reversal and a lot.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Business processes span industries, both vertical and horizontal, and can include any type of business operation. Some examples may include: Automotive – managing parts and/or suppliers. Finance – an invoicing process, a billing process, a risk management process. Health – a medical assessment, a drug approval.

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