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5 Biggest Social Media Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

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While social media can be a powerful way for businesses to interact with audiences, there are many costly mistakes that can be made in this area. Hardly a week goes by without hearing about a scandal or faux pas made by a company on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram. There are also more creative ways to get more mileage out of content.

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When Should Technical Founders Become CEO?

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Much has been written about when it is time to hire a “professional CEO” to run a startup company and of course that has long been a norm in Silicon Valley when founders find that their inexperience may be a limiting factor in company growth ( know as the Peter Principle ). It now seems that Mark is more firmly in control.

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Why Reed Hastings Should be Applauded for Netflix Split

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If you haven’t read Reed’s explanation of this split make sure you read it (of course, after you’re done with this post ) —> here. He acknowledged mistakes in his past communications and apologized. He defines this as new products that are dramatically cheaper, lower quality, lower margin but larger markets.

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Interview: Ian Siegel of ZipRecruiter

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9) In Competing From The Fringe , I caution entrepreneurs to not alert their competitors when they are making mistakes. I think the biggest problem Monster, HotJobs, and CareerBuilder face right now is that they are charging premium prices for what is an increasingly commoditized product. You almost got me.”. Ocean or mountains?

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Interview: Ian Siegel of ZipRecruiter

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9) In Competing From The Fringe , I caution entrepreneurs to not alert their competitors when they are making mistakes. I think the biggest problem Monster, HotJobs, and CareerBuilder face right now is that they are charging premium prices for what is an increasingly commoditized product. You almost got me.”. Ocean or mountains?

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

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You’ll have no idea when you’re off course. I see this mistake all the time, actually. I’m guessing this was also the case over the first few year’s of Zynga’s growth on Facebook. Once they knew how much money they could make with virtual goods / customer then they seemed to buy up much of the Facebook ad inventory.

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TZ Startup Hot Seat | Mark O’Sullivan Founder and CEO of Vanilla Forums

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I was running my own community, and none of the solutions available in the market could do any of the things that I wanted to do. What is the market opportunity? Recent studies have shown that even with the advent of things like Twitter & Facebook, forum growth has not been affected in the slightest.

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