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5 Ways To Safely Sample The Entrepreneur Lifestyle

Startup Professionals Musings

Most Angel groups and VCs advertise the startups they have recently funded, with pointers to startup websites, sometimes including open positions. Get to know the people there, and ask them for pointers to new ventures that are still in the formative stage. Your best job leads will come from other entrepreneurs.

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Hire a consultant; ignore the advice.

Berkonomics

Consultants are good in that you can sample their work with short projects, change to other consultants quickly, and stop using them when a project is completed. A few of the recommendations were implemented over time, one with great effect and even a national advertising campaign behind it (that you surely saw on TV).

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Interview with Matthias Galica, ShareSquare

socalTECH

The objects we are focused on are out-of-home advertising. That's the big opportunity for us, out of home advertising, to make it engaging, and ultimately, measurable. That's a small sample of some of the externalities we hope we can generate with the network effect. Who uses your service, and why? READ MORE>>.

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Consultants are only as good as the advice you take.

Berkonomics

Consultants are good in that you can sample their work with short projects, change to other consultants quickly, and stop using them when a project is completed. I have a partner in a consulting practice that specializes in the travel industry. But most were just ignored.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

Both Sides of the Table

But we had a great chance to talk about the recent moves that Twitter has made to “plug holes” and changing its “TOS” on advertising. I don’t do advertising on my blog, but I thought it was worth mentioning Ryan in particular because he has an alternate model for doing a startup. They sponsor TWiVC.

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Interview with Andy Steuer, Punchcard

socalTECH

At the time, they were shipping out CD ROMs with 300 albums, album artwork, and three song samples each. One of the things I heard often when doing any marketing, was that although local businesses would get customers from their advertising efforts, the didn't know when they were coming back.

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Failing to Plan, Is Planning to Fail

Tech Coast Venture Network

The are free samples on the web.but caution, some are better than others! Higher ROI: Referral marketing, Social Media Marketing, PR, Advertising. Projected Financials: 5 year Cashflows & Income Statements (Balance Sheets Preferable as well). Current owner investment. Marketing Plan. Do: Utilize multiple sources of marketing.