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Lean Startup Legend Steve Blank Discloses His Most Daring Guerrilla Marketing Tactics

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However, many people are not aware that prior to entering academia, Steve was a wily and creative marketing entrepreneur. As the VP of Marketing, Steve inherited a department of 14people that was burning $4M annually. Despite these abundant resources, the team's ineffectiveness was reflected by the company's dismal 11% market share.

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Extracting More Than Cash From Your Angel Investors

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In order to extract value beyond your Angel investors' cash, you must first assess three important parameters: (i) the relative strength of their personal brand, (ii) their ability to add operational value, and (iii) the amount of care and feeding they will demand from you. Share and Enjoy.

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6 Hiring Lessons from Vince Lombardi

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The following guest post is from Dan Monarko, Online Marketing Manager 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. It has a price. Share and Enjoy.

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Five Trick Questions Every Entrepreneur Should Answer Before Asking For Money

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Consider the situation in which the entrepreneur wants to accept a financially life-changing offer to sell her company which is vetoed by the investor because the price does not meet its minimal investment return criteria. We are not focused on our exit, but I can guarantee you that the time, place and price will be at our discretion.”.

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Five Trick Questions Every Entrepreneur Should Answer Before Asking For Money

InfoChachkie

Consider the situation in which the entrepreneur wants to accept a financially life-changing offer to sell her company which is vetoed by the investor because the price does not meet its minimal investment return criteria. We are not focused on our exit, but I can guarantee you that the time, place and price will be at our discretion.”.

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

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Loading… Markets. Loading… Market Data. In March of last year, Matt Jacobson, head of market development at Facebook, paid $10.9 Prices are soaring in the beachfront communities tech types favor, and rents in these. Another client of Mr. Rappaports, Mich Mathews, formerly the head of marketing for Microsoft.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0