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Maintain Your Startup Motivation While Working Harder

Startup Professionals Musings

That’s why all those so-called million dollar ideas I hear about as an investor don’t get me excited, and entrepreneurs find that working twenty hours a day often generates nothing more than sweat, instead of the desired sweat equity. One approach, which is even more work, is to keep tasks in-house rather than outsourcing.

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Balance Your Focus Between Passion And Perspiration

Startup Professionals Musings

That’s why all those so-called million dollar ideas I hear about as an investor don’t get me excited, and entrepreneurs find that working twenty hours a day often generates nothing more than sweat, instead of the desired sweat equity. One approach, which is even more work, is to keep tasks in-house rather than outsourcing.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 5. Outsourcing

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Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. I am still a big fan of outsourcing. Zondigo, Inc.

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A Chat with Chris Tragos of Jetpack

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Chris Tragos: Typically, with an advertising RFP, a campaign will come pre-loaded with a standard ad spot and creative. At Jetpack, we don't outsource production, and we manage all of the software development within Jetpack. But, you still have lots of ideas. That said, we're working on two great ideas right now.

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How Nils Forsblom Is Reinventing Himself In Mobile With TenFarms

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PhotoPoll is our first app to push live, and now we're working on our second app, AdTile, which is a mobile advertising solution for applications and mobile software. What we do, is I identify things and start defining features around ideas. Nils Forsblom: The original idea for Fruugo came when I was living here in the U.S.

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Customer Engagement Is Key To Branding Yourself

Startup Professionals Musings

They are overloaded by the media with amazing advertising messages, and people now realize that you can’t believe anything you see in pictures, and even videos can be edited to deliver any message. So start now to think of your startup as a media company, rather than an outsourcer of advertising from some anonymous experts.

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Entrepreneurs Need to Sell Themselves as the Brand

Startup Professionals Musings

They are overloaded by the media with amazing advertising messages, and people now realize that you can’t believe anything you see in pictures, and even videos can be edited to deliver any message. So start now to think of your startup as a media company, rather than an outsourcer of advertising from some anonymous experts.