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5 Tips For Attracting Female Customers

Tech.Co

In the Harvard Business Review Female Economy 2009 report, women purchasing power was predicted to control about $28 trillion in annual global consumer spending, if not more. If you as a founder don’t think that appealing to women should be a part of your marketing strategy, you are wrong, and will lose. Connect With Your Customers.

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Earned Media: What is it & how can it benefit or harm your brand?

From the Venture Trenches

Of the three horses in a brand’s marketing troika: owned , paid and earned – earned media is the least understood and least utilized, despite the fact that a conscious effort to leverage the channel can be extremely effective and long lasting.

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Earned Media: What is it & how can it benefit or harm your brand?

From the Venture Trenches

Of the three horses in a brand’s marketing troika: owned , paid and earned – earned media is the least understood and least utilized, despite the fact that a conscious effort to leverage the channel can be extremely effective and long lasting.

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As Populist as it May Feel, 98% of VCs Aren’t Dumb

Both Sides of the Table

It’s a market, after all. By 2009 had reduced to around $15 billion in capital from LPs. And hard for me to imagine the Fred Wilson and Albert Wenger weren’t instrumental mentors to David. And I’ll know in 18 months whether we have product / market fit. I use social media. It is changing.

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Carpooling Wants You To Share Your Car, Meet New Friends & Get Paid For It!

Tech Zulu Event

In 2009, after their first round of investment, they launched internationally. Users kept pushing the boundaries with more and more trips abroad but entering a new market is not so easy. Our biggest competitor used to be in our market of origin (mitfahzentrale) but we bought them last year. Do you have any mentors, Investors?

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

Dec 26, 2009). Often board members give entrepreneurs two bits of advice regarding scale: Get a mentor. A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , August 9, 2010 This is Part 3 of the series: 5 lessons from 150 startup pitches.? If you do a lot of pitches, spend the six minutes to watch this. Has convertible debt won?

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Boomers are Driving a New Entrepreneurship Boom

Startup Professionals Musings

With longer life expectancies and greater health in later life, older generations are moving to start new firms -- and mentor young entrepreneurs. Half of the Internet users aged 50-64 use social media now, an 88 percent growth from the previous year. Business-startup rates in America increased the most in the Midwest and South.