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Top Ten infoChachkie Entries Of 2012 – The Year Of Syndication

InfoChachkie

2011 was the year of the video interview, in which I spoke with the likes of Guy Kawasaki, Len Short, Brad Feld, Naval Ravikant and Steve Blank. Exposure on these sites more than doubled my readership from 2011. Startup Tips From College Dropouts: Zuckerberg , Jobs, Gates, Dell, Ellison, Branson and Disney. and Forbes.

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Guerilla Marketing, Brad Feld Style

InfoChachkie

Serial entrepreneur, venture investor and startup accelerator pioneer Brad Feld has notoriously mocked traditional marketing throughout his career. For a long time, I had a line which was, ‘Whenever I hear the word marketing, it makes me throw up a little bit in my mouth.’”. This article originally appeared on Forbes HERE.

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How To Become a VC

InfoChachkie

In contrast, the operational experiences required to take a company from its founding through a successful exit are additive to early-stage startups. An effective way to associate yourself with high-caliber members of your startup community is to lend your gratis support to a venture accelerator or incubator. Microscopic Industry.

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From Near Death To YouTube Stardom, An Entrepreneur’s Story

InfoChachkie

You have dream when you''re little and kinda want to be a pop star and then you start playing shows. In Mike''s words, "That''s where a lot of people run into problems, as they keep (focusing on) grandiose (ideas)and they don''t learn what holds their ideas up. Follow my startup-oriented Twitter feed here: @johngreathouse.

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Go West Young Men: Winklevoss Twins Buy $18M L.A. Mansion To Dive Into SoCal Tech Scene

SoCal Delicious

Previously she worked for GigaOM, where she reported on startups and Silicon Valley. The San Francisco Bay Area is still the epicenter when it comes to tech, and Los Angeles has indeed been heating up as a startup hub in recent years. Hyperlinks and images must be manually coded using html mark-up. 2011 Holiday.

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Trade Show Guerilla Marketing – Booth Babes With Beards

InfoChachkie

I always enjoy a great guerilla marketing story, such as TestFlight’s use of T-shirts and Tacos to gain Steve Jobs’ attention at Apple’s 2011 developers’ conference. Be Closing, No Posing – The ultimate measure of effective marketing, especially at a startup, is revenue. Follow my startup-oriented Twitter feed here: @johngreathouse.

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Google Cleaning Out Their Closets

Tech Zulu Event

In November 2011, Google’s spring clean saw a number of services shut down like Knol, Friend Connect and Google Wave. But to make the most of them, we need to focus—or we end up doing too much and not having the impact we strive for. iGoogle users have been given up to 16 months to download and export their data.

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