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

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The starting point of product IS marketing, which is what a lot of young entrepreneurs that never studied business don’t realize. But you also vastly expand the universe of those who will discover the topic and want to do a deep dive, learn more and then spread the idea to others. Rebelling is simply a form of snobbery.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. Market Size. Competition.

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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. Your marketing dollars paid for these unattributed customers, but like Wanamaker, you cannot identify when or how.

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