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StartupRoar Adds Personalized Subscriptions

SoCal CTO

The reason that I'm most exited about this is that I partly use StartupRoar to make sure I don't miss things that is good content that is relevant to me. It always has great, fresh content from a wide variety of industry professionals. Now with personalization, it is even less likely that something will sneak by.

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Interview with Simon Anderson, DreamHost

socalTECH

We caught up with CEO Simon Anderson to learn more about the big debt funding round and how it came about, the complexities of providing founder liquidity in a bootstrapped company--and how the company is looking to use those funds to take the company to the next level. Simon Anderson: DreamHost was founded 16 years ago.

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Guerilla Marketing, Brad Feld Style

InfoChachkie

I recently spoke with Brad about his approach to guerilla marketing and how he instills eclectic marketing tactics in Foundry Group’s portfolio companies. In addition to the partners’ tireless blogging, they founded TechStars, one of North America’s premier startup accelerators. Foundry Group Goes Guerilla. Just be you.

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8 Questions to Help Decide if You Should be Raising Money Now

Both Sides of the Table

A year ago I blogged about one of my most common mantras that applies to sales, biz dev & fund raising alike: “ Time is the Enemy of all Deals.&#. I thought I’d try to offer a framework for thinking about the topic. I thought I’d try to offer a framework for thinking about the topic.

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How PolarPro's Photo Filters Are Riding The GoPro Wave

socalTECH

Jeff Overall: It all started back in 2011, when I was going to the University of Santa Barbara. I saw that there were a few solutions out there people were blogging about out there, mostly about taping polarized filters on the cameras. We saw growth from just 850 filters in 2011 to 7500 filters in 2012.

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The Old Ways Of Social Media Marketing Are Broken

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, it used to be that marketing via social media meant buying banner ads on Facebook, or buying a position on search engine results, or sponsoring some blog entries, but these doesn’t work anymore. 1% click through rate and Facebook manages to be about half as good as that. That won’t build any competitive advantage.

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

Talking about whether to raise more money or not, their VC allegedly said to them: “If you had more capital, could you get to the future faster? Those of us that are willing to admit that we fawked things up in the first dot-com explosion and learned from our mistakes have the battle wounds to make more pragmatic decisions in 2011.