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What Every Entrepreneur Could Learn from Justin Bieber

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To be a great entrepreneur you really do need talent. You need to be great at something: technology back-end, front-end design, usability, sales, marketing, quantitative analysis, leadership –> whatever. But if you’re not uber talented there is always a “Justin Bieber of technology&# waiting to kick your ass.

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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

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If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. The starting point of product IS marketing, which is what a lot of young entrepreneurs that never studied business don’t realize. It’s worth a quick read. My argument is pretty simple. Link has a summary of his argument plus a great video).

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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. However, Search Engine Management (SEM) is not a “set and forget” exercise. If you benefit from true word-of-mouth marketing, consider yourself lucky. I was dead wrong.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. 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. The perfect competitors are the ones where they unable to respond due to The Innovator’s Dilemma.

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