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5 Common Misconceptions of Web Design: Insights from the Yoga Sutras

From the Venture Trenches

The pride and effort they have placed in building up their business should be reflected through their web presence. More than a calling card a businesses website is how customers will discover, assess and interact with you and how you in turn, can engage your customers. Fear can be overcome, in action is inexcusable.

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5 Common Misconceptions of Web Design: Insights from the Yoga Sutras

From the Venture Trenches

The pride and effort they have placed in building up their business should be reflected through their web presence. More than a calling card a businesses website is how customers will discover, assess and interact with you and how you in turn, can engage your customers. Fear can be overcome, in action is inexcusable.

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Amazon’s Selz Acquisition is Encouraging News for Small Businesses

Tech.Co

Nothing is changing for our customers at this time, and we’ll be in touch with customers as and when we have further updates. That's not bad but it's miles off market leader Shopify which boasts millions of customers. Shopify has even partnered with TikTok to facilitate in-app sales for small businesses. Service Sales.

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Interview with Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin, Lynda.com

socalTECH

Not too many people are aware of the success and story of Lynda.com (www.lynda.com), started by Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin , and how the firm's now grown to a double-digit, multimillion dollar business which is known as THE source for online training on such things as web design, graphics software, animation, video editing, and much more.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

0160; If I need $250,000 to get to 100 customers, or $1 million to get to X, and I can raise both amounts from either Angels or VCs, where do we turn? Customer Care Today. The Phantom Sales Forecast – Failing at Customer Validation - Steve Blank , July 22, 2010 Startup CEO’s can’t delegate sales and expect it to happen.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

socalTECH

in sales last year, what he learned from his experience at TechStars, and where he's going with Fanmix. million in sales last year, with great margins, and it's profitable, with a team of ten people. We have about 8500 customers there, but only a small percentage have built great communities that took off, and the rest floundered.

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Interview with Ilya Pozin, Cofounder of Pluto TV

socalTECH

I started a web design company, and ended up going to college in Florida, but kept on running the company on the side. I saw that, if you build a good product that customers love, that people love to use, how you need to market it, how you need to run that project, and so forth. It started to feel like the Matrix to me.

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