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How This Startup Turned An April Fools Joke Into Customers

InfoChachkie

Last week, Divshot turned a simple April Fool''s Day joke into a marketing coup, generating nearly 6,000 Tweets and over a thousand Beta customers. The team''s ability to drive significant customer interest without spending a dime on marketing was one of the reasons Jim Andelman and I invested in the company. Share and Enjoy.

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How To Avoid (Another) Horrible Boss

InfoChachkie

Boss Reference - Your potential boss will check your references. Even if the reference did not work directly with your future manager, they may still have valuable insights that would otherwise be impossible for you to uncover during the interview process. You should do the same. Silver Lining. Share and Enjoy.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. Refer a friend? Do you need to provide RSS? What’s their specific need / pain? Tell me about the business.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. Refer a friend? Do you need to provide RSS? What’s their specific need / pain? Tell me about the business.

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Olympic Lessons for Startup Life

InfoChachkie

The following guest post is from Courtney Englert, Customer Success Intern at The Resumator , a SaaS applicant tracking system and hiring platform trusted by many of the fastest-growing companies in the world, including: Pinterest, Tumblr, Hootsuite, Klout, Posterous, Bitly, Atari and Mashable. Follow Courtney on Twitter at [link].

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

I sometimes refer to this field as “intent-based advertising&# because the reason it has been so successful is that the person who typed in the search term has expressed an “intent&# to find information on that category. I covered that topic in my Twitter is RSS post.

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The Power Of Mouth To Mouth Marketing

InfoChachkie

One that he particularly struggled with was "word-of-mouth marketing,”which he consistently referred to as "mouth-to-mouth marketing." One way to do so is to ensure that when your customers share their experiences with your products and solutions, they do so with the passion and intensity of a soulful kiss. Share and Enjoy.

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