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8 Key Disciplines Are Essential To Scale Any Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Image via Pixabay As a mentor to many small business owners, I always caution them that you can never relax completely, just because your initial solution or product set appears to be getting traction, and the market buzz is positive. Control costs and adjust prices to maintain your margin.

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The Startup Guide To SXSW Panel Picking

Tech Zulu Event

The buzz words of SXSW Interactive 2010: cloud computing, social, on-demand, sharing, collaboration, Entrepreneurism / Monetization Cloud Computing, monetization, Startup. . The buzz word is "Innovation". Rapid growth is a survival challenge that's killed off many seemingly successful companies (Pointcas. Lee Dale, Say Yeah!

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The Guy Who Took on Google (and now LinkedIn): Mike Yavonditte

Both Sides of the Table

Quigo Lands Overture as Client, Rejects Their Acquisition Offer. We will white label the system, and not only that, we’ll allow you to set your own pricing.” After rejecting the offer, Mike had a team of his best people waiting to ‘kill’ him for turning down an acquisition that would have changed their lives forever financially.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: "Keep it Simple" - My Golden Rule

Frank Addante

Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. 6 startups = 1 IPO, 2 acquisitions, 1 failure, millions in venture capital $, hundreds of employees in cities worldwide and the building of my latest venture, the Rubicon Project - one of the fastest growing advertising companies in history. Zondigo, Inc.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

The Scene Will Kill You - Brad Hargreaves , November 7, 2010 If you’ve taken a deep dive into tech startups, you know about the scene. The scene will kill you. Remember those buzz words? Small Business Jobs Act Includes Short-Term Full Exclusion from Gross Income of Gain from QSBS - Recent Buzzes - VC Experts, Inc.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

Will Price , October 11, 2010 Georgians Should Vote No - Force of Good: a blog by Lance Weatherby , October 28, 2010 Free Software for Managing a Lean Startup - Platforms and Networks , January 17, 2010 Purpose Driven Life - Journey of a Serial Entrepreneur , July 26, 2010 Two Decade-Defining Acquisitions?

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

Both Sides of the Table

Think about this: The investment banks and trading houses across the globe have invested billions of dollars in computing equipment and staff in order to process news that affects stock prices milliseconds before the rest of the market can process & transact on this same information. The more missed story is, “Holy shit. is hot right now.

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