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5 Steps To Get You From Your First Idea To A Business

Startup Professionals Musings

His challenge is to focus on one market, with a specific design, cost, and price. These days, even with the pervasive Internet and social media, it still takes time and money for your marketing and customer communication efforts to have an impact. For example, I have a friend with a Ph.D.

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8 Keys To Providing Consulting Services To Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

A client relationship suggests that the consultant is in charge, whereas the customer designation recognizes the more modern model of the customer in control. It’s time to adopt your customer’s favorite mode of communication, whether that be texting, phone calls or social media, and not limit responses to office hours.

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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

Both Sides of the Table

.&# Essentially I see it as two things: 1) an aggregator of social content from multiple places including Twitter, Facebook and soon even Gmail. It serves a similar role as Digsby (which I love using) albeit from a social media metaphor rather than an IM metaphor. It has some similarities with Brizzly in this regard.

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Why Early-Stage VCs Should Be Careful About Intros from Bankers

Both Sides of the Table

I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. The sheer number of relationships I’ve built through being public, transparent and being willing to engage in comments and through social media has enabled me to get to know entrepreneurs even before they launch their next company.

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The Importance of Proprietary Deal Flow in Early-Stage VC

Both Sides of the Table

I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. The sheer number of relationships I’ve built through being public, transparent and being willing to engage in comments and through social media has enabled me to get to know entrepreneurs even before they launch their next company.

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

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is the second largest designated market area (DMA) in the country, so youre starting with a natural talent pool of very interesting people, and also, a market from which to sell your goods and services into. Mark Suster, a partner at GRP Partners in Los Angeles, spoke with Fastcompany.com about what makes L.A.s startup scene so hot.