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Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Startup Marketing Ideas - Eric David Greenspan

SoCal CTO

I have a few meetings with the team, perhaps about the website design, radio show structure, an event we are working on, a sponsorship (perhaps the uniforms for our youth basketball team). I frequently work on networking through the social web and building new relationships that will foster knowledge gathering or business growth.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. The web is broken by design and we cannot fix it anymore.

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Doing the Right Things is More Important than Doing Things Right

Both Sides of the Table

So many CEO’s just carry on being … CEO’s –> fund raise, get media attention, attend conferences, hire staff, “set direction&# , whatever. But this leads to organizational drift because staff will continue to produce “work.&#. Let me give you an example. Similar with product features.

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BloomNation's Goal To Empower Your Local Florist, And Improve Flower Delivery

socalTECH

Those services work on volume, and the designs you can send--and which you receive--are from a limited selection, not at all personalized to the recipient, and for the florist delivering the flowers, provides slim margins and no opportunity to build a customer base. What is BloomNation? It''s sort of an Etsy for flowers.

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Recycled Bride Wants You To Save On Your Big Day | Wed Without Tears

Tech Zulu Event

Recycled Bride is the world’s largest wedding marketplace; a peer-to-peer platform that connects buyers and sellers of designer wedding dresses, accessories, and anything else wedding-related. Recycled Bride uses PayPal to hold the funds until the seller ships their item and enters a tracking number into the system.

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How Tradesy Makes Selling Women's Clothing Simple, with Tracy DiNunzio

socalTECH

Tracy tells us how she bootstrapped her business by renting out both her bedrooms and sleeping on the couch--funding the startup via Airbnb--and is now scaling out the business with a new round of venture capital. I didn't have any funding. I was a painter then, and I started selling all of my paintings to fund RecycledBride.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

The fund is organized into sectors and each VC forms forward looking themes within sub sectors. Highland has been around for 22 years currently investing the 8 th fund which is $400 million. They also have a separate $300 million fund focused on bricks-n-mortar consumer retail. 11:40-14:15). What drives people to Metacafe? (41:30-42:00).

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