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Internet Business Lingo Quiz for Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Many of the investors and entrepreneurs I know still don’t realize that they need to use and understand the Internet, even if their business is not e-commerce. Believe me, the business implications are already critical to your success or failure as an entrepreneur: Blog. Search engine marketing (SEM). Streaming video.

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Interview with Dmitri Leonov and Constantine Suychmez, Ulevate

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Constantine is CEO of Ulevate, and Dmitri is an advisor, and also is known as the co-founder of email management and filtering software developer SaneBox. Most people don't want injectsion, radio frequency, or ultrasounds, and it helps that we can work with pregnant women. What is Ulevate? Dmitri Leonov: It's the Russian connection.

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10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups

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If I can help you avoid some of my first-time mistakes it would be a victory. Because market is such a broad topic, I’m restricting these lessons to PR marketing (as opposed SEO, SEM, product marketing, etc.). In my experience, entrepreneurs who are overly paranoid or are information hoarders rarely do well.

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Test Your Aptitude for Business Internet Jargon

Startup Professionals Musings

Many of the businesses and entrepreneurs I know still don’t realize that they need to use and understand the Internet, even if their interest is not e-commerce. If you have heard the lingo, but most of these are not in your startup business plan, you are already in jeopardy as an entrepreneur: Blogging. Search engine marketing (SEM).

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Why Misunderstanding Startup Metrics Can Cost You Your Business

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In general I find that raising large amounts of money when you haven’t figured it out ends up papering over problems more then helping solve fundamental issues in the business. The tl;dr version is this: Many have been taught to focus on LTV/CAC ratio and if that number is substantively > 1 said entrepreneur feels great.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

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As Marketing Guru Guy Gabriel of Idea Engineering points out in Max Brand , viral marketing has made many an entrepreneur terminally ill. Unpaid Search – Never pay a consultant to help you achieve a higher search ranking. However, Search Engine Management (SEM) is not a “set and forget” exercise.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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In our industry we applaud the efforts for entrepreneurs to have tried and we know that today’s failure can bring the experience for tomorrow’s success. Yet I can’t help thinking there are many predictable failures that come from a lack of basic planning. Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail.

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