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6 Unforeseen Obstacles Every New Venture Must Conquer

Startup Professionals Musings

When entrepreneurs introduce new products to the market, their passion and conviction often leads them to assume that every potential customer will see the immediate need and value, and will quickly adopt the solution. In these cases, you need testimonials, usage details, and return-on-investment examples.

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6 Observations On Key Challenges Facing Every Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

When entrepreneurs introduce new products to the market, their passion and conviction often leads them to assume that every potential customer will see the immediate need and value, and will quickly adopt the solution. In these cases, you need testimonials, usage details, and return-on-investment examples.

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10 Obstacles To Product Adoption That Kill Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

When entrepreneurs introduce new products to the market, their passion and conviction often leads them to assume that every potential customer will see the immediate need and value, and will quickly adopt the solution. In these cases, you need testimonials, usage details, and return-on-investment examples.

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Here’s Why a Booming Tech Market May Fool You into Thinking You’re Successful

Both Sides of the Table

I’d like to do a few posts on what life looks like on the way up and perhaps how to keep your head on straight and avoid drinking your own Kool Aid because as I often advise entrepreneurs on irrational exuberance, “ In a strong wind even turkeys can fly.” ROI studies were published.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers. Facebook is about to try to dominate display ads the way Google dominates text ads - Chris Dixon , May 15, 2010 It is customary to divide online advertising into two categories: direct response and brand advertising. First off the two prezis and then the case study material (i used ERPLY as inspiration).

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Interview with Eden Jarrin, eDivvy

socalTECH

Really soon you'll see we'll be editorializing products and helping people to choose gifts in a category an dhow to pick the right gifts. So you'll pick something a pink iPod 80G, add that product to your card. We've been doing case studies, and we've found that people don't want to be stuck with money and nothing to give.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

InfoChachkie

No one wakes up and says to themselves, “I need to buy that product I have never heard of before.” As Marketing Guru Guy Gabriel of Idea Engineering points out in Max Brand , viral marketing has made many an entrepreneur terminally ill. Tactics which can increase your customers’ lifetime value are discussed in Pour and Stir – Part III.

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