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Freelancers Are The New Entrepreneurs For Services

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are a few examples: Marketing specialists. As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation. This world changes rapidly and needs a highly focused specialist to keep up.

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Entrepreneurship Is A Compulsion, Not A Choice

InfoChachkie

A small percentage of people in each free-market society generate the jobs for everyone else. Such mini-ventures, as described in Small Ideas, Big Benefits , will not only educate you, but will reduce your risk when you exit the Herd. Thus, you can pursue new markets that are further from the mainstream and too small to interest a BDC.

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Entrepreneurs Can Thrive on Services or Products

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are a few examples: Marketing specialists. As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation. This world changes rapidly and needs a highly focused specialist to keep up.

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Adam Kanner | ScoreBig, Startups, and LA Tech

Tech Zulu Event

We had flash sales and group sales sites coming to us with the same general business idea: shoot out a couple million emails to potential customers saying they have tickets on sale. This is a huge deal to a half a billion dollar industry market that our tickets are on sale. Marketing our brand is one challenge.

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Entrepreneurs can be Specialists or Generalists

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are a few examples: Marketing specialists. As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation. This world changes rapidly and needs a highly focused specialist to keep up.

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Adam Scott | ScoreBig, Startups, and LA Tech

Tech Zulu Event

You got flash sales and group sales sites coming to us and basically have the same general business idea: shoot out a couple million emails to potential customers, saying they have tickets that are on sale. Marketing that our tickets are on sale is a huge problem and in the live entertainment/sport industry, that’s just bad.

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How to Make Sense of the PPP Loan Program for VC-Backed Startups

Both Sides of the Table

There are some business people who think this is ethically wrong for a VC-backed business with a highly-educated founder and there are also likely to be some populist outcries that the money should have been reserved for Main Street workers and not tech workers. One thing that is clear. Below lists how the loan program is calculated.