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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

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Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. - First Principles.

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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

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There’s one attribute (coming soon) that I need to have in order to write a check but I don’t believe is vital for success. He wanted to launch his next venture in financial services because it was a bigger industry. The exact same team had worked on 2 previous customer service startups (and 1 non-CS product).

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

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It was a pleasure to write them myself. 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.

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How Startups Can Figure Out Sales: Amos Schwartzfarb, TechStars

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I opened up an office for them, doing early stage selling, then I built a client services department for HotJobs, and then after Yahoo acquired them, I moved back into sales, in Sales Management, and I helped manage and rebuild a team in San Francisco. I didn't really set out to write a book. Donnelly in 2007.

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

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aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. But I didn’t write it for you; I wrote it for myself. How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. but: Something is Still Missing.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

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We had to write a CRM to keep track of them all. and Flipboard Rock - How to Change the World , August 24, 2010 In the last few weeks two companies have released services that enable you to take tweets and turn them into a newspaper or magazine format: Paper.li What’s going to happen in the future?' Know Your Objective. We declined.

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Why The ‘Fail Fast’ Mantra Needs to Fail

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And how do you think the next person who’s thinking about writing you a check going to feel about that sort of cavalier attitude with their money? Paying customers. My business has a bunch of them, and a lot more users who really depend on our service. People gave you money to use your service. This is wrong.

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