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What The Heck Does “Traction” Really Mean To A VC?

InfoChachkie

In some industries, lengthy pilot tests are required before an enterprise customer will sign a definitive purchase order. In a like manner, proudly profess your traction to your target VCs until they either write you a check or ask you to look elsewhere. Follow my startup-oriented Twitter feed here: @johngreathouse. Share and Enjoy.

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How Many Times Should You Tweet Your Blog Post?

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve argued previously that Twitter is a new form of curated RSS and in many ways it is. But it is a transient RSS reader. I’ll finish writing around 1am and that’s a dumb time to Tweet because few people in the US are online. In fact, that is what I plan to do for this post. My conclusions.

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Ask the Career Expert: “Why Do I Need a Mentor?”

InfoChachkie

Because the fact is that you are about to enter into a new game where you are definitely not at the top of it, and probably don’t even really know the rules. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS. Share and Enjoy.

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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

InfoChachkie

You definitely have a nice start. In a few instances, developers spent their weekends and evenings writing inferior versions of Microline's tools that they then released as free, open source alternatives. to actionable user feedback, "Just went through the demo. Seems like a combo of Mixpanel and intercom.io.". Hacker Downside.

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Samsung Galaxy S Review

Tech Zulu Event

The Samsung Galaxy S definitely deserves a double take at the least. RSS reader. Swype, Write & Go. Allowing you to open a new tab, Add RSS feeds (if any), switch tabs, refresh the page, go forward, and open bookmarks. A bright and beautiful screen thanks to the Super AMOLED display. MID/AC3/IMY/FLAC/XMF.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

Both Sides of the Table

By definition, you read blogs. But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about. Write out the topic and maybe even the blog title. Absofuckinglutely. I wanted to differentiate.

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Quickly Enable Social Logins with JanRain Engage

SoCal Delicious

Your article is the only useful information Ive found about Engage but one thing I dont get is, what methods do you say we have to write? (in Is this error related to what Im supposed to write? in the @todo tags) I dont get what are those methods supposed to do. I would really appreciate if you can give me a hand with that.