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Sales Kids With Grit – Web 2.0 Paper Routes

InfoChachkie

Surely a savvy, modern-day entrepreneur can utilize online tools to leverage young peoples’ collective energy and fervor. . Similar to the entrepreneurial attributes described in The Lemonade Principle , a newspaper route not only built character, it prepared children for a lifetime of success. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Guerilla Marketing Fail – What I Learned From The Austin Police

InfoChachkie

Both the video and Seth’s post are excellent primers regarding how to deal with guerilla marketing gone wrong. As John Greathouse noted in his blog entry, Putting “Trade” Back Into Tradeshows , several years ago, I pulled off a guerilla marketing coup at a large tradeshow by hiring actors to portray monks. By: Seth Epstein.

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Are You an Entrepreneur?

InfoChachkie

Hint: He was an entrepreneur. The same is true of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is so highly valued in the Western World that some people try to convince themselves that they are an entrepreneur, when in fact they would be better off at a Big Dumb Company (“BDC”). Entrepreneur Does Not Equal Inventor.

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Ten Rookie Startup Mistakes You Won’t Make

InfoChachkie

As an entrepreneur and startup investor, I have helped create companies which achieved two IPOs which collectively raised over $100 million, as well as two acquisitions which totaled $385 million. 1) Expect Independent Channel Sales Reps To Perform Missionary Sales. Rationale: I cannot afford to hire a direct sales force.

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Parenting Tips From Zappo’s Founder Tony Hsieh’s Mom And Dad - Startup Kids – Part V

InfoChachkie

It is better for an entrepreneur to taste the bitter dissatisfaction of a failed venture as child, than to do so for the first time as an adult. Surely a savvy, modern-day entrepreneur can utilize online tools to leverage young peoples’ collective energy and fervor. .

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What Startups Can Learn About PR and Crisis Management

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Yet a quick response clearly made this Chill moment into lemonade. The most tempting thing for inexperienced entrepreneurs to do is to attack the press. I was recently talking with an entrepreneur who had just gotten a ton of press around his company for an interview he gave to a journalist. Make the story be about your market.

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