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Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More - Ten Recent Great Startup Posts

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Of course, one of the best ideas around this is to have Negative Customer Acquisition Costs. HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback - Niall Kennedy's Weblog , February 8, 2010 The emerging HTML 5 specification lifts video playback out of the generic element and into specialized handlers. Great stuff. Good stuff from Jason.

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Exploring A Brave New World Of Domain Names, With Rightside

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Across the board, the whole company is very focused on the overall success of that program, to really drive the awareness and education in the market on those new TLDs, make it easier for people to get them, and not just letting them buy those TLDs, but helping them turn them into sites, blogs, and applications.

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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

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This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. &# If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here. I often talk with entrepreneurs who are kicking around their next idea. Even if you keep it dormant for 2 years while you work on your idea. Not worth it.

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Mark Suster’s Advice To Emerging Entrepreneurs – “Do Not Do, As I Have Done”

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Mark is a Partner at GRP Partners and authors one of the most widely read startup blogs, BothSidesOfTheTable. There is nothing wrong with researching an idea yourself, getting it started yourself, validating the idea yourself and then asking people to join you.” Learn HTML. Flip Burgers. Learn JavaScript.

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Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouhi

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And I'm looking forward to more interaction now that she's blogging. That's when phone calls were a dime, so you get an idea how long ago that was. BLOG: [link] LINKEDIN: [link] TWITTER: [link] What's a phone booth? Maybe you can blog about that? Like your idea of the 30-minute phone conversation too.

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

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Fred Wilson recently posted a great video on his blog with the CEO of Forrester Research, George Colony. This blog post lays out my case. In the end, Seth Godin’s comments on Fred’s blog post said it best: “His black swan is showing. But I valued getting my ideas out there. A tough way to drive.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. If you came here via a direct link you might want to check out the more detailed full version on my blog, which is here. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML.