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8 Tips For Getting Your Startup Right The First Time

Startup Professionals Musings

Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging. Just make sure you can fill in all the details.

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6 Tips To Market Your Idea Before Building A Solution

Startup Professionals Musings

Highlight the problem and your concerns in industry blogs, speaking in public forums, and making yourself visible on social media and networking opportunities. Social media sites today, including Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, provide ideal forums for presenting your cause and your concept.

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8 Tips For Startups Preparing For The Media Spotlight

Startup Professionals Musings

Social media includes blogs, social networks, and video-sharing sites. People judge you and your company in the first few seconds. Handling different media formats. These days the media formats range from email, phone, radio, television, to social media. All the lessons from traditional media apply, and more.

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Some Tips to Improve the Civility on Hacker News

Both Sides of the Table

We’re determined to keep this site good, because we use it ourselves.&#. I CERTAINLY opened myself up to attack by writing my original blog post about job hoppers with some incendiary language and tone. But the comments on my own blog were so much more balanced with people taking both sides of the debate.

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Lunch.com Launches New Community Feature

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Los Angeles-based Lunch.com , the online review site headed by J.R. Johnson, has launched a new, community feature which allows third party website and blogs to host and provide communities on their own sites. The firm said the new features will help those websites and blogs engage meaningfully with their visitors.

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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

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The lessons learned by Divshot confirm that obtaining, and more importantly maintaining, visibility on the front page of a major social news site results from the congruence of three factors: audience, timing and engagement. No matter how you end up on the front page of a major news site, getting there is just the first step.

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Why Titles Matter a Lot if You’re a Blogger

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Gabe Rivera wrote a post on why TechMeme is now using its editors to curate titles that appear on its site. I never saw it go out with a “tip @techmeme” on Twitter. When I first started writing this blog several years ago I had less followers than you have right now. His article is well worth reading anyways.

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