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From Startup Newsletter To Best Selling Book: How This Entrepreneur Pulled It Off

InfoChachkie

Upon graduation from Wharton, John and Kyle launched a startup based upon a simple, pedestrian product: a computer mouse shaped like the head of a golf driver. Putting their expensive educations to good use, they aptly named their novelty product a "MouseDriver". From 35 To 500 Readers. According to John, "So, we, we sent.(an

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Here’s How You Get A VC To Pull Out Their Checkbook

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As noted in Entrepreneurs Shouldn't Pitch Their Ideas To Venture Capitalists , most sophisticated investors place their bets on people rather than opportunities. What does your pain reliever look like, how is it implemented by the customer and what future products do you expect to roll out? Distribution and Sales. Share and Enjoy.

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Guerilla Marketing, Brad Feld Style

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companies should… focus on building amazing products. If you have amazing products, the marketing of those products is trivial. If you have $hitty products, the marketing is impossible. Instead of focusing on marketing as an activity… integrate it into (your) products.”. Write Your Own Playbook.

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Should You Blog? (yes, and here’s how …)

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I started with the hosted version and then migrated to an installed version so I could use Google Analytics and some other products. Don’t just write a carbon copy of what somebody else is doing. OK, well, actually the first thing I did is come up with a list of 50 posts that I wanted to write. You then need a URL.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I We have a theme we call Protocol, which are technology protocols and markets built around technology protocols like SMTP for email and RSS. Or, as always, summary notes available below. You still need the presentation to back that up.

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23 Startup Tips From Oprah Winfrey

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The ratings were poor, the writing was uninspired and Oprah did not have enough time or energy to devote to the show. However, Oprah felt she had failed to deliver a quality product. I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. They were astounded, as no one had ever returned a prepayment.

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Down the Stack | How Low Do You Go?

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You’ve got a great idea for an app. I’m largely talking about whether to use an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) or a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and to some extent, how much to rely on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers or write your own application components. You’re a startup. So how do you figure out where you’ll host it?

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