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The Impact Matrix: Prioritize Your 2013 Initiatives Using This Startup Ninja Tool

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Dynamic, growing startups consistently identify more ideas and opportunities than they have the time or resources to pursue, including: entering into potential partnerships, developing new products and accessing emerging markets. Impact – The degree to which the ideas further the venture’s objectives.

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Some Thoughts on Twitter as a Micro-Blogging Tool

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1/ Twitter started off positioned as a micro-blogging platform but in the end became more of an RSS reader. It forces clarity of writing & discrete ideas. 4/ Each point you make in a Tweetstorm in a way has to be its own independent idea to be truly effective. Mark Suster (@msuster) May 29, 2015.

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With Greathouse Comes Great Responsibility

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Design together, the course that introduced the idea for brightblu, they were concurrently taking three other classes: Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Marketing and Art of the CEO. Some of these influential speakers included Kevin O’Connor, founder of FindTheBest.com & DoubleClick and Simon Dixon, CEO of Idea Engineering.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

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Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. -

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

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Sean Murphy on the first dozen enterprise customers - Gabriel Weinberg , September 8, 2010 I recently did a Traction Book interview with Sean Murphy who runs a boutique cutomer development firm in Silicon Valley. Today RSS is the enabling technology – the infrastructure, the delivery system. Simply put, there is no market for RSS.

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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

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This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. &# If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here. I often talk with entrepreneurs who are kicking around their next idea. These periods of time can leave a founder very vulnerable in the future. Not worth it.

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Deal Hair: Is Your Startup More Like Russell Brand Or Bruce Willis?

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Other patterns VCs look for include: Technical Guru with great ideas, but no management experience. Sales Guy who can package and promote the opportunity, but who has minimal product development capabilities. The above criteria obviously do not represent all of the factors investors consider when evaluating a venture investment.