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Why Titles Matter a Lot if You’re a Blogger

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His article is well worth reading anyways. When I first started writing this blog several years ago I had less followers than you have right now. But the realist in me knew I couldn’t write daily nor could I convince you to think to check out my blog with regularity. I should know. Titles are an enticement to read a post.

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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

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It’s building a product that is substantially differentiated, and, as Bill Gross, one of the most prolific tech entrepreneurs of our era says, “ It needs to be 10x better than the competition ” (because if you shoot for that then in competitive markets you might achieve 3x. Rebelling is simply a form of snobbery.

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How to use PR Firms at Startups

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Obviously you should have somebody that helps you research journalists, gets you meetings, pitches stories, helps prep you for interviews & helps make sure your writing is cogent. Whether we like to admit it or not, PR drives behavior with customers, investors, employees and competition. In a startup this is a mistake.

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The Authoritative Guide to Prorata Rights

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Put simply – if you invested early in Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. For starters some funds are small and thus while they put $750k into your company to own 10% of your company they might not be able to write another $2 million if you then raise a $20 million round (10%). ” Some do, some don’t.

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Some Thoughts about Selling at Startups

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That student is Erin McCann who formerly worked in sales at Google, so she has some ground to stand on in her assertions. The idea that the course asks students to write public blog posts is a testament to its more modern teaching style. My list of excuses includes: product, pricing, competition and lack of sales support.

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A Serial Entrepreneur’s Guide To Uncovering Awesome Startup Ideas

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free weekly Infochachkie articles! The more you play around with ideas and you write them down, the better. Competition – which competitors will prove to be the most formidable? NOTE: competitors validate your idea, if you lose heart after one Google search, you are not sufficiently passionate about the idea.

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Interview with Jordan Glazier, Wildfire Systems

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If I write back, and tell them to stay at the Marriott in Del Mar, we would detect the Marriott Del Mar in your message, whether that's on Facebook Messenger, Snapchat, in a text message, in an email, or whatever, and convert that into a link to one of our merchants who are part of the Wildfire network. What does that look like?

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