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7 Incentives For Testing Your Startup Marketing Early

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s still popular these days for startup founders to operate in stealth mode, meaning no details about the idea or progress are shared with anyone until the big reveal and rollout. The common reason given is that this prevents any competitor from stealing their idea and beating them to market. Optimize your web history and presence.

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7 Reasons To Avoid Stealth Mode For Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s still popular these days for startup founders to operate in stealth mode, meaning no details about the idea or progress are shared with anyone until the big reveal and rollout. The common reason given is that this prevents any competitor from stealing their idea and beating them to market. Optimize your web history and presence.

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5 Keys To A Viable Spending Rate And Cash Management

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. Overall, managing cash flow and burn rate is more critical to your business success than having the right idea and the right product. Social media is not rocket science.

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10 Keys To A Credible and Trusted Internet Web Domain

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes. Of course, too many or obnoxious advertisements are especially harmful to a site’s credibility. Put yourself on the site. People buy from people.

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5 Ways To Conserve Investor Cash And Ensure Survival

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. Overall, managing cash flow and burn rate is more critical to your business success than having the right idea and the right product. Social media is not rocket science.

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Granularity and Consistency of Startup Metrics

SoCal CTO

Show me how much each unique visitor is going to cost you in search engine optimization and pay-per-click search engine expense. And you definitely should have ideas around important proof points for the business. Good founders will have ideas about all of these at a fine grain. Great stuff!

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10 Ways To Highlight The Credibility Of Your Website

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes. Of course, too many or obnoxious advertisements are especially harmful to a site’s credibility. Put yourself on the site. People buy from people.