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6 Cost-Cutting Recommendations For New Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

The same is true for filing patents, registering trademarks, and filing copyrights. With Google, you get all the storage you need in the cloud for free. Social media facilitates marketing and sales. Setting up the business as an LLC or C-corporation can now be done online with low registration fees and minimal risk.

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10 Marketing Strategies To Drive Exponential Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

As an angel investor, I see plenty of startups focusing on building an innovative product, but I’m looking for the few who are also leading with an exponential growth strategy, to put them in the category of the next Amazon or Google. Examples include the Nike Run Club app where people participate in challenges and win trophies.

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8 Key Rules for Starting a Business on a Shoestring

Startup Professionals Musings

Trademarks, copyrights and even patents can be completed online by anyone through the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office site for a few hundred dollars. Take advantage of social media and free websites for marketing. Site marketing is easily extended through blogs, Twitter, Facebook and social media.

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8 Myths Technologists Believe That Sink Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

In today’s world of information overload, everyone relies on marketing and social media to find solutions to match their needs. Patents are not worth the effort, since big companies will win. Patents can raise startup valuation by investors by as much as a million dollars, and will attract acquisitions rather than copycats.

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Entrepreneurs Today Don’t Need A Big Budget To Start

Startup Professionals Musings

The same is true for filing patents, registering trademarks, and filing copyrights. With Google, you get all the storage you need in the cloud for free. Social media facilitates marketing and sales. Setting up the business as an LLC or C-corporation can now be done online with low registration fees and minimal risk.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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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. Also, it’s too dumb to follow chained redirects, by the way.

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Tilofy: Making Sense Of The World Around You Using Location Data

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You can press a button, and it scans the social media chatter and organizes highlights aroundyou, of relevant conversations around a particular location and particular time. At Microsoft, I was part of Bing Maps, which is Microsoft''s response to Google Maps. That was a completely different view of the same problem.

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