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Guerilla Marketing, Brad Feld Style

InfoChachkie

Instead of focusing on marketing as an activity… integrate it into (your) products.”. If you look at many of the companies we invest in, sure they have traditional marketing activities, but most of their growth and momentum comes from delighting their users. Write Your Own Playbook. Brad Feld, Managing Director, Foundry Group.

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Startup Spotlight: Final Exams, Santa Chatbot and Clean Up Your Email

Tech.Co

Customers can choose among its many templates to quickly add a chatbot to any Facebook page and then use its different reply types to create lead generating bots, list of articles taken from RSS feeds, Mailchimp and Zapier integrations, carousel of images and full-fledged ecommerce or food ordering solutions within the Messenger interface.

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Ask the Career Expert: “Why Do I Need a Mentor?”

InfoChachkie

Because more than just a job, a career partially dictates the types of people with whom you will associate, the way you will dress, your vacation durations and destinations, your extracurricular interests and activities – your whole life. If you decide that this career is in fact your ideal, then your mentor, in a way, has already vetted you.

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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 can offer real-time feedback and immediate rewards for hyperlocal activity, by members of that community, for members of the community. Give people a way to follow news around a particular block.

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Using Social Media To Deal With Customer Trolls

InfoChachkie

Still, passengers were able to complete nearly every activity scheduled. The next time you encounter a negative online comment about your startup from a disgruntled customer, resist the very natural temptation to write a hurried, angry reply. Yes, Tige included a smiley face in his response. . Channeling Tige. Share and Enjoy.

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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 can offer real-time feedback and immediate rewards for hyperlocal activity, by members of that community, for members of the community. Give people a way to follow news around a particular block.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I We have a theme we call Protocol, which are technology protocols and markets built around technology protocols like SMTP for email and RSS. Or, as always, summary notes available below. Is that when it became big? was starting.