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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

Both Sides of the Table

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. You own the IP you create. We were a great services business.

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Roping in the Legal Eagles

InfoChachkie

I established such a relationship with a fantastic lawyer and he taught me a great deal over the 10 years we worked together. Thus, every time you submit a request to your lawyer, make it very clear when you really need a response – this will help your Legal Eagle to effectively manage his time and ensure that he meets your expectations.

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Ten Rookie Startup Mistakes You Won’t Make

InfoChachkie

1) Expect Independent Channel Sales Reps To Perform Missionary Sales. Fallacy: AdVentures tend to evolve once you begin speaking with pesky customers and demanding partners. If I were you, I would be thinking, ‘Great, but where was the love last week? Rationale: I cannot afford to hire a direct sales force.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

Great lifestyle, great cost of living, motivated people and only the crap weather on the negative side. It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. It’s great to see an initiative like Seattle 2.0 The ingredients are all here. Seattle has its patrons.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

Sebastian’s Pamphlets If you’ve read my articles somewhere on the Internet, expect something different here. For the sake of a common denominator, I encourage you to perform a tiny real-world experiment: Publish a great and linkworthy piece of content. Tweet its URI (not shortened - message incl. URI ≤ 139 characters!)