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8 Tasks To Prepare You For Starting Your Own Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Make sure the name and trademarks you want are available, as well as web site address, social media tags, and any other intellectual property. Network extensively for partners, investors, and suppliers. Pick a name, location, and marketing strategy early. Names and taglines are critical to success.

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8 Ways That Blogging Will Kickstart Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

As the number of sites on the Internet floats around one billion, the challenge with every new startup is to be found and stand out. More important, if someone does find your site, the content better be enticing enough for them to come back. Blogging will improve your site search engine ranking.

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What’s it Like Being a VC?

Both Sides of the Table

Some people do the conference circuit too much, get involved in lots of side projects and attend every entrepreneur dinner. I get paid to network – I love meeting people. When I go to conference I never sit in the meeting section – I always cruise the halls meeting people. I get to choose what I write about.

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I Buy Dead Magazines (the art of the intro …)

Both Sides of the Table

It starts in a crowded room at a conference or networking event. We know that their model works for a certain type of content but we believe we can build higher value sites where we can sell premium advertising and target niche audiences. The life of an entrepreneur is filled with 20 second opportunities. Most are squandered.

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7 Ways To Take The Lead In Building A Personal Brand

Startup Professionals Musings

Attend networking events with investors and influencers. For an introvert like me, networking is exhausting, rather than exhilarating. Start a blog and write for industry forums and newsletters. Every organization and web site is begging for content, so spread yourself around. Build your momentum to bigger forums.

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Interview with Jonathan Lehmann and James Chung, KarmaGoat

socalTECH

I developed the idea over the summer, articulated the vision, drew out the site, and then teamed up with other students at UCLA and started developing KarmaGoat. We were invited in March to the Harvard Social Enterprise Conference to present. We have a really good team that brought this site up. It has been really amazing.

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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

Both Sides of the Table

Tracy is knowledgeable enough to talk tech and swap design & product stories with other founders, but she realized early that networking amongst this group and reading and writing in their journals would not bring her more customers. She focused on her customer. So Tracy began keeping a blog about … (what else?)

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