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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

Both Sides of the Table

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. The starting point of product IS marketing, which is what a lot of young entrepreneurs that never studied business don’t realize. The start of marketing is figuring out a market need and a way to solve that need better than anybody else.

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Crowdfunder Hosts 1st Crowdsourced Startup Contest | Crowdstart LA

Tech Zulu Event

On Tuesday, July 10, Crowdfunder hosted Crowdstart LA, the first crowdsourced startup contest at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica. The event was sold out, attracting founders, angels, VC’s and future entrepreneurs in the LA Startup Community. This will most likely take event in January 2013.

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8 Ways Entrepreneurs Often Destroy Team Motivation

Startup Professionals Musings

Maybe it because there are plenty of tips, seminars, and books on the motivation side of the equation, starting with the basic Motivating Employees for Dummies , and so few resources on elements of demotivation. You may ask them to bring you up to date on what they’ve been emailing you, but you’ve been too busy to read.

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No Entrepreneur Sets Out To Demotivate Their Team

Startup Professionals Musings

Maybe it because there are plenty of tips, seminars, and books on the motivation side of the equation, starting with the basic Motivating Employees for Dummies , and so few resources on elements of demotivation. You may ask them to bring you up to date on what they’ve been emailing you, but you’ve been too busy to read.

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6 Tips to Boost Workforce Engagement and Motivation

Startup Professionals Musings

Image via Wikipedia The challenge for all of us in business is to improve competitiveness by improving employee productivity and reducing costs. Regularly asking for insight, and then following up, to fix these wasted efforts, will improve job satisfaction, as well as productivity. No one likes useless work.

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8 Key Ingredients to a Profitable Consulting Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Based on my own years of experience in this space, I would like to highlight a critical subset of his key ingredients for success, to save you from the frustrations and setbacks we both have felt: Implement real competitive differentiation. Don’t forget seminars and events. Raise the conversion rate with effective follow-up.

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Pipeline Fellowship | Raising Women to Become Investors

Tech Zulu Event

Natalia not only wants to increase the number of women in investment, but bring more people in total to help startups and other businesses get the capital they need. How many seminars does Pipeline Fellowship have? NON: I very much started with people in my network in the beginning. What is Pipeline Fellowship about?

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