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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. For startups, social media and color printers have essentially replaced the need for external public relations and marketing services.

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Why “The Culture of Failure” is Imperative to Startup Communities

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I think the fact that NorCal didn’t have strong industries in financial services, manufacturing, autos, marketing or other traditional industries also made experimentation more acceptable. 4:30 How did you come up with the idea of customer development? Everyone check his services out at walkercorporatelaw.com.

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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. For startups, social media and color printers have essentially replaced the need for external public relations and marketing services.

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Interview With Startup Boost, Matt Stodder and Blake Caldwell

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We occupy the space in ecosystem to service companies who are getting ready for seed or have just started to go out for seed funding. They fail to understand what the market is, what their differentiation is to their customers. Blake Caldwell: We believe heavily in customer in customer development.

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

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So when he saw the browser it instantly dawned on him that this would be the greatest customer development tool ever. He thought, “This way any product you launch you can talk instantly with and get feedback from customers.&# Yes, long before Yelp or any similar service. Shopping.com. The Wedding Channel.

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

SoCal CTO

Timing your startup - Chris Dixon , November 7, 2010 I never had the opportunity to invest in YouTube but I have to admit that if I did I probably would have passed (which of course would have been a huge mistake). love to find great products and services made by entrepreneurs who are trying to change the world. What went wrong?

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

We’ve been using MongoDB as the backing store for Treasury , and over the course of two and a half months , we’ve had over 50,000 excellent Treasuries created by the Etsy community, all stored and served in MongoDB. Customer Validation needs to have the CEO actively involved. Customer Development Diagnostics over Lunch.

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