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10 Marketing Strategies To Drive Exponential Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

A mindset of killing your competitors is not always the key to expediting your own growth and success. New products being used in unusual ways attract attention, buzz, and followers. These can easily start new trends, or capitalize on existing ones. Initiate a visible campaign against a common competitor.

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

Both Sides of the Table

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments. Bad times often require more capital but ironically this is when capital is dried up.

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The Startup Guide To SXSW Panel Picking

Tech Zulu Event

Jason Cohen, Capital Thought. The buzz words of SXSW Interactive 2010: cloud computing, social, on-demand, sharing, collaboration, Entrepreneurism / Monetization Cloud Computing, monetization, Startup. . The buzz word is "Innovation". Joshua Baer, Capital Factory. A Bootstrapped Geek Sifts Through the Bullshit.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: "Keep it Simple" - My Golden Rule

Frank Addante

► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? StrongMail Systems (Digital Messsaging Infrastructure Software) Status: VC-backed (Sequoia Capital, Globespan and Evercore) Lesson: Trust your gut. . So, don’t kill your idea with complexity. I'm 30, now will you take me seriously? Zondigo, Inc.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

The Scene Will Kill You - Brad Hargreaves , November 7, 2010 If you’ve taken a deep dive into tech startups, you know about the scene. The scene will kill you. Storm Clouds - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 12, 2010 We have enjoyed an amazing run in the web startup and investing space over the past five or six years.

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The Guy Who Took on Google (and now LinkedIn): Mike Yavonditte

Both Sides of the Table

Mike Yavonditte is the founder of the “super hot&# Hashable , a startup out of NYC that has been described as a “ Mint.com for Social Capital ” Mike sold his previous company, Quigo , to Aol for $340 Million. How Hashable Got Buzz. He is also an active angel investor in companies like Klout and Meetup.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

November 23, 2010 Entrepreneurs, Using Outsourcing to Obtain Capital Efficiency Needs to be Thought Through to be Effective - Robert Ochtel , June 7, 2010 Teen Entrepreneur, Brian Wong, Youngest Founder to Receive Angel Funding - teenentrepreneurblog.com , October 28, 2010 Build Your Own Silicon Valley? First Principles.

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