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Social Media is a Boon to Startups Who Do It Right

Startup Professionals Musings

They also identify clearly the five key social media mistakes that I often see, along the following lines: Diving in without a strategic plan. Manage your “e-putation” and avoid the most common mistakes of social media novices. Lead generation continues to be the biggest benefit of social networking for U.S. small businesses.

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The Planned Iteration Startup Launch Minimizes Risk

Startup Professionals Musings

All you old software development types will recognize the analogy to the traditional two year “waterfall model” of software development, which has been totally replaced with the Agile iterative methodology. Agile assumes and plans for iterative development, where requirements and solutions evolve as more is known and markets change.

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Startups Should Avoid These Social Media Mistakes

Startup Professionals Musings

They also identify clearly the five key social media mistakes that business often make, along the following lines: Diving in without a strategic plan. Manage your “e-putation” and avoid the most common mistakes of social media novices. Social media is about maintaining a dynamic conversation between you and your customers.

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Every Startup Should Assume Pivots Will Be Required

Startup Professionals Musings

All you old software development types will recognize the analogy to the traditional two year “waterfall model” of software development, which has been totally replaced with the Agile iterative methodology. Agile assumes and plans for iterative development, where requirements and solutions evolve as more is known and markets change.

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How Pinterest, Tumblr, HootSuite, Klout, Posterous, Bitly and Mashable Rapidly And Repeatedly Hire Great People

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A hiring mistake early in a startup’s life can be expensive, especially when opportunity costs are considered. One of the biggest challenges of the hiring process is sorting through unqualified applicants. According to Jennifer Van Grove of Mashable, “The Resumator. Just sign up (and you) immediately (have your own job board).”.

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Smart Entrepreneurs Plan Multiple Rollout Iterations

Startup Professionals Musings

All you old software development types will recognize the analogy to the traditional two year “waterfall model” of software development, which has been totally replaced with the Agile iterative methodology. Agile assumes and plans for iterative development, where requirements and solutions evolve as more is known and markets change.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

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And given your stage of development you sure better at least know what your goal is. For example, if you have developers, content people or SEO folks working on SEO programs you’ll need to allocate their time / costs to this effort. I see this mistake all the time, actually. That’s not acceptable. But what is industry standard?

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