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Guerilla Marketing, Brad Feld Style

InfoChachkie

Brad proudly described how the company successfully used thought leadership marketing to seed a marketplace in which companies can outsource their SEO campaigns to a legion of independent, third-party “optimizers.” One of the firm’s more infamous marketing stunts was their 2011 music video, entitled I’m A VC.

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Entrepreneurs Challenge The Gartner Hype Cycle

Startup Professionals Musings

For the latest info, Gartner recently released their Hype Cycle Special Report for 2011 , detailing some of the biggest trends in technology this year. New this year are application services and outsourcing, cloud application infrastructure services, cloud security, privacy and smart cities.

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

Those of us that are willing to admit that we fawked things up in the first dot-com explosion and learned from our mistakes have the battle wounds to make more pragmatic decisions in 2011. The former was outsourced, the latter was our own team. In the end, of course, our productivity actually suffered.

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Future of The Cloud is Bright | Just Ask the Market

Tech Zulu Event

Hulme also argues that organizations will always need IT, business experts, security experts, and engagement managers to handle relationships with the growing number of third-party and outsourcing vendors cropping up around the cloud. “Of course, IT jobs within solution providers and at consultancies will remain.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

Clearly it'd be more accurate to say "sometime in Q1 2011." Timing your startup - Chris Dixon , November 7, 2010 I never had the opportunity to invest in YouTube but I have to admit that if I did I probably would have passed (which of course would have been a huge mistake). Maybe you could get v1.0 This doesn’t make sense.