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Startup Lessons From Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon

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Business Lessons From The Dark Side Of The Moon. • Obtain Customer Feedback Before You Release Your Product - Musicians spend their entire youth writing songs and performing them in front of live audiences, which ensures that their initial album is validated by their fans before they enter the recording studio. Share and Enjoy.

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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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Serious Presentation Tips From Standup Comics

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They often write their own material, book their gigs, arrange their travel and negotiate and collect their compensation from club owners. In addition, both comedians and entrepreneurs must engage and entertain their demanding audiences. Comedians are entrepreneurs. Share and Enjoy.

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7 Business Mistakes Serial Entrepreneurs Never Make (Twice)

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Fallacy: Startup ventures tend to evolve, especially after you begin speaking with pesky customers and demanding partners. Your commitments to investors must be significant enough to compel them to write you a check. Perform China Syndrome Market Analysis. Puffery works in marketing, so I will deploy it when I promote my startup.

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Down the Stack | How Low Do You Go?

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I’m largely talking about whether to use an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) or a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and to some extent, how much to rely on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers or write your own application components. Most SaaS providers deliver end-user applications on-demand, as a service.

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Aaron Swartz | A Stranger in a Strange Land

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At 14, he became a co-editor for the spec responsible for RSS technology. Finally, Swartz founded Demand Progress , a group focused on advocating civil liberties and government reform. Swartz had been open in sharing his battle with depression, often writing his thoughts regarding suicide on his blog.

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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]. As I write these words I’m aware that I could practically change the words AOL and Facebook for much of this section and with a few factual tweaks it might not be noticeable to the reader which of the firms I was talking about. cheap accessible digital hardware].