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Why Would a Business Avoid any Internet Presence?

Startup Professionals Musings

Customers go there to check on the details of your offerings and verify that you are not a scam, investors look there to check out your management and sales approach, and suppliers expect to find contact information. There are many practical reasons for going to work early on your web site. Viral marketing needs a website.

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Get A Domain Name Without Bankrupting Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

The simple answer is that if you want to be found on the Web, the perfect domain name can be well worth a few thousand dollars, but don’t pay a fortune for one. Only one sold for 7 figures in 2012 (investing.com sold for $2.5 Ask if the domain name is for sale, but don’t tip your hand by making a specific offer.

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Bolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP

Both Sides of the Table

He shared tons of information about how how they were using marketing to quantitatively make marketing decisions at HauteLook and acquire customers for prices that were far cheaper than similar companies. It was perfect timing since in 2012 GRP raised its fourth fund bringing our total assets managed to nearly $1 billion. Approachable.

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Why I Doubled Down on YouTube Investments with MiTú

Both Sides of the Table

My point was that Amazon continues to dominate the web services business because AWS continues to cut prices & margin in the same way a hypermarket does to control market share. And we’re growing our sales organization. I wasn’t. I was trying to be more analytical than critical.

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Nine Startup Tips From Michael Dell

InfoChachkie

According to a January 2012 article in Forbes Magazine , nearly 16% of the 400 most affluent Americans do not have a college degree. In Michael's case, he promised his parents that he would return to school if the sales at his startup did not meet his expectations. "I We Don't Need No Stinkin' Degrees. "As

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The Future of Couponing | How Social-Local-Mobile has Changed the Game

Tech Zulu Event

Precise analytics allow companies to “ measure online distribution of coupons by tracking the printing of web pages and page views;” a significant advantage with digital. For example, Cornell University reported that many Groupon users see themselves as “marketing mavens”… “on the front edge of market trends and price information.”

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E-commerce’s Changing Landscape | Customization

Tech Zulu Event

This Black Friday we reached record retail sales at traditional brick-and-mortar stores, yet the merging Cyber Monday is proving to be a fighting younger brother. Up 33% this year, according to the Washington Post, online commerce is trending upwards from $175 billion in 2007 to a projection of $335 billion in 2012 (Forrester Research).