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Wrapify Q&A: Adhesive Giant Puts $3 M in Car Advertising Schtick

Xconomy

Heller founded Wrapify in early 2015 with the idea of creating a business that would pay motorists to wrap their cars in digitally printed advertising.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

socalTECH

It's like WordPress, but instead of blogging, it provides an online community, which is self-hosted. It's a casual setupĀit's not an incubator, it's not an accelerator, and we're not charging anyone for space. Alex Benzer: I was a computer kid in high school, though I thought I'd go into advertising. We scaled that to almost $1.4

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 6.0 - the Rubicon Project: Internet Advertising

Frank Addante

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. Zondigo, Inc. Startup 3.0:

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Stealth Mode Entrepreneurs Only Increase the Risk

Startup Professionals Musings

This takes time, and is more valuable than any advertising you can buy. In addition, a website needs several weeks of presence for indexing by search engines, search engine optimization, blog activity, and link building. With most others, like web services, incubation time must be short, and secrecy can be the kiss of death.

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10 Tests of Your Modern Entrepreneur Lingo Savvy

Startup Professionals Musings

As opposed to a startup incubator, which typically deals with startups barely hatched, an accelerator focuses on a later stage startup, with an existing product and proven business model, looking for rapid growth. Osmosis marketing is the hot new term for word-of-mouth advertising. Startup accelerator. Social mobile web.

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7 Reasons For Your Startup to Skip Stealth Mode

Startup Professionals Musings

This takes time, and is more valuable than any advertising you can buy. In addition, a website needs several weeks of presence for indexing by search engines, search engine optimization, blog activity, and link building. With most others, like web services, incubation time must be short, and secrecy can be the kiss of death.

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Why Itā€™s Not Healthy To Be A Stealthy Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

This takes time, and is more valuable than any advertising you can buy. In addition, a website needs several weeks of presence for indexing by search engines, search engine optimization, blog activity, and link building. With most others, like web services, incubation time must be short, and secrecy can be the kiss of death.

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