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6 Cost-Cutting Recommendations For New Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. Now you can do it for free, or a few hundred dollars, with one of the many web building tools available, like Shopify or Weebly.

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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

Both Sides of the Table

I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 There were tons of young entrepreneurs showing their latest Web 2.0 Ajax was the new buzzword and many companies went overboard. Unfortunately this was reinforced by the many conferences that rushed to espouse the benefits of Web 2.0

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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Bill Gross is the man responsible for the overwhelming amount of monetization on the web. It was the first company to do “paid search&# back when Larry & Sergey were saying they would never do it. plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. Google had huge destination traffic.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

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. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said. 8211; are mostly a loss leaders for Google. Stay Tuned.

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Entrepreneurs Today Don’t Need A Big Budget To Start

Startup Professionals Musings

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. Now you can do it for free, or a few hundred dollars, with one of the many web building tools available, like Shopify or Weebly Store.

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Startup Weekend LA | Recap February 2012

Tech Zulu Event

Tyler has helped coach dozens of companies through pitching and presenting at Launch Conf and formerly TechCrunch 50. The 1st place winner was SnazzyRoom, an online styling tool for mixing and matching items on the web ( SnazzyRoom.com ). Joey Pomerneke and Adam Steele also joined us from Startup Weekend Global in Seattle.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. He was a life-long entrepreneur and the first business he created out of college (actually, he founded it while he was at Caltech) was a company that manufactured high quality audio speakers. So he launched a company with exclusively paid search.