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Startup Lessons From Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon

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Their deep understanding of their customers, an uncompromising drive to create a quality product and the courage to ignore the music industry's formulaic approach to producing hits resulted in the creation one of the top selling non-compilation albums of all time.

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8 Fundraising Deal Breakers Inexperienced Entrepreneurs Routinely Create

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Solution – Identify the competencies that are critical to your startup's success and develop them internally. For instance, technology startups should maintain key development resources in-house, rather than relying exclusively on third-party, contract labor. Share and Enjoy.

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Entreprenurs Must Kick Down The Door When Opportunity Knocks

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Once the tour concluded, the group returned to Ron’s office where he notified them that he would initially sign them to a development deal. He made it clear that this approach would allow the band to re-cut a few of their demos, which he would use to persuade the label to sign the band to a full-fledged recording contract.

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Trade Show Guerilla Marketing – Booth Babes With Beards

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I always enjoy a great guerilla marketing story, such as TestFlight’s use of T-shirts and Tacos to gain Steve Jobs’ attention at Apple’s 2011 developers’ conference. Her company has since signed a contract with Central Desktop. Central Desktop’s angel was amusing without alienating potential customers. Share and Enjoy.

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Improving Website and Wordpress Performance with Hard-Coded Share Buttons

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API call could handle shortening the URL for you, I prefer to create one before I post and add it as a custom field. Scroll down to the bottom of your post to a section called “custom fields.&# you should follow me on Twitter here and you should subscribe to my posts via RSS here or email here. Though a Bit.ly

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Advice for CTO Founders: Don't Let Business Kill the Business

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This is not only sad but incredibly frustrating, because it is so easy to see how a great technology can be developed and commercialized if only - if only the CTO hadn't been impulsive and insecure and brought on a business partner too early in the game. I am a business person, not a technologist. So my advice to CTO / Founders?

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

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Subscribe to RSS. Subscribe to RSS. He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. Christopher Brereton is one of the founders and lead guru of PictureHealing , a company that develops community, awareness and support through photo sharing on iPhones.