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Sales Kids With Grit – Web 2.0 Paper Routes

InfoChachkie

For children with a proclivity toward business, a newspaper route provided an invaluable opportunity to develop the following entrepreneurial skills: Punctuality – Newspapers had to be delivered on time, irrespective of the weather, the fact that Sunday papers can weigh several pounds each or the requirement to wake up at the crack of dawn.

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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

Both Sides of the Table

I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 There were tons of young entrepreneurs showing their latest Web 2.0 Unfortunately this was reinforced by the many conferences that rushed to espouse the benefits of Web 2.0 Cisco and others went out to fill out their Web 2.0

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Web 2.0 & eHealth

AeA Los Angeles Council

The term, eHealth, characterizes not only a technical development, but also a state-of-the-mind, a way of thinking, an attitude, and a commitment for networked, global thinking, to improve health care logically, regionally, and worldwide by using information and communication technology. We’ve already seen how Web 2.0

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Startup Metrics

SoCal CTO

In many cases, I can break it down into: Customer Acquisition Cost – how will you reach prospects, how will you convert them and how much will it cost to convert them Customer Lifetime Value – how much will you make off of each converted customer This very simple model works for a surprising number of business models.

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Should You Bother Targeting the Tech Blogs for Your PR Campaigns?

Both Sides of the Table

” If your company was featured there (in the early days of what people called Web 2.0) After that a meme developed amongst many startups (and the advisors that coached them) that, “TechCrunch didn’t matter. It’s also important for recruiting, fund raising, business development and even company morale.

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Most Startups Should be Deer Hunters

Both Sides of the Table

When you start your company the very first question you need to ask yourself is which kind of customers do you want to serve. Many start-ups (and even growth firms) lack this discipline and they therefore serve customers off all sizes. These are really massive customers. We knew how to land huge corporate customers.

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Aaron Fyke, Thin Line Capital: The Second Wave Of Cleantech Investing

socalTECH

You then caught things like Web 2.0, It's the same in clean tech, where three are now plenty of solar panels and electric vehicles deployed, and there are a sufficient quantity of customers you can service and established markets, not like it was ten years ago. social media, and everything else. more) READ MORE>>.

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