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

InfoChachkie

Once people who do not know you and have no vested interest in your company's success begin expending their time, money and resources to leverage your value proposition, you are gaining traction. 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.

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Should You Blog? (yes, and here’s how …)

Both Sides of the Table

Don’t just write a carbon copy of what somebody else is doing. OK, well, actually the first thing I did is come up with a list of 50 posts that I wanted to write. I didn’t want to run out of things to write about in the first 6 months. Every time I write a post I send it out on Twitter. That’s boring.

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Down the Stack | How Low Do You Go?

Tech Zulu Event

When building a new application, the fundamental rule is that you should choose any services that allows you the greatest combination of flexibility and resources to meet your application’s needs. For example, IaaS providers will give you raw infrastructure like compute and storage resources.

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Entrepreneurs Now Start Hyperlocal Then Go Global

Startup Professionals Musings

This is the main focus of EveryBlock, where they give each city block its own Web page, its own RSS feed and its own e-mail alerts. They are free to write about neighborhood events, charities, schools, and local causes. The big news outlets don’t have the staff or resources to chase these types of stories.

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Smart Startups Think Global But Act Hyperlocal

Startup Professionals Musings

This is the main focus of EveryBlock, where they give each city block its own Web page, its own RSS feed and its own e-mail alerts. They are free to write about neighborhood events, charities, schools, and local causes. The big news outlets don’t have the staff or resources to chase these types of stories.

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Hyperlocal is the Latest Buzzword for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

This is the main focus of EveryBlock, where they give each city block its own Web page, its own RSS feed and its own e-mail alerts. They are free to write about neighborhood events, charities, schools, and local causes. The big news outlets don’t have the staff or resources to chase these types of stories.

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Improving Website and Wordpress Performance with Hard-Coded Share Buttons

SoCal Delicious

Wordpress in particular is fairly resource heavy right out of the box so speeding up everything else is a critical piece of running a site on this platform. you should follow me on Twitter here and you should subscribe to my posts via RSS here or email here. What I write here is protected by a Creative Commons License.

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