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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. Minimize investment in prototypes and tooling. A programmer can build a new smartphone app for a few thousand dollars.

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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. Minimize investment in prototypes and tooling. budget business e-commerce entrepreneur startup' Savings here can easily reach another $10K per month.

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Steven Blank Kills It at Greycroft CEO Summit

Both Sides of the Table

We’re here for Greycroft’s CEO Summit – a gathering of the CEO’s of their portfolio companies with guest speakers covering topics including how to build your team, PR, customer development, etc. It is the key to “customer development” that Steve Blank talks about. I’m going to save that for a future blog post.

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10 Job Titles Never Found in an Investable Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

What you really need is a VP of Marketing and Customer Development, who can help with lead generation and honing the message, rather than an executive to manage a sales team and existing customers. Evangelism marketing is an advanced form of word of mouth marketing (WOMM), now largely replaced by Facebook and Twitter.

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Why Your Startup Needs a Sales Methodology

Both Sides of the Table

Like most startup entrepreneurs, when I began my first company in 1999 I had no formal sales experience. I did have the wherewithal to visit potential customers and try to understand the pain points that I thought could be solved with our solution. This article originally appeared on Inc.com.

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Why Hopscotch Is Behind Your Favorite Mobile Sports App, with Laurence Sotsky

socalTECH

Why are these colleges using you, rather than investing in their own custom applications? The platform approach we took allows teams and companies and venues to access the best functionality, at a subcription price, rather than a custom development price. Laurence Sotsky: That's a great question.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers. In many of them I get asked similar questions, including the inevitable “what makes a great entrepreneur?” friend of mine asked me to chat with a startup he’d invested in. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said. was having coffee with a friend who teaches at the U.C.

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