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Test Your Aptitude for Business Internet Jargon

Startup Professionals Musings

If you have heard the lingo, but most of these are not in your startup business plan, you are already in jeopardy as an entrepreneur: Blogging. A blog is basically a journal (“web log”) that is published on the web. Wikipedia started this, but it is also used for technical support, software, and product reviews.

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5 Simple Tactics To Make Freemium Users Pay

InfoChachkie

A version of this article previously appeared in the Wall Street Journal. Freemium business models are popular because they allow startups to quickly drive user adoption. It''s frankly easier to accelerate your startup''s growth and show faux traction if you omit the pesky step of asking users to pull out their credit cards.

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Internet Business Lingo Quiz for Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

A blog is basically a journal (“web log”) that is published on the web. Wikipedia started this, but it is also used for technical support, software, and product reviews. As entrepreneurs and business people, it behooves us all find and adopt changes which can improve our startup. Crowdsourcing.

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Do Not Obsess On Names – Obsess On Delivering Awesome Customer Value

InfoChachkie

A version of this article previously appeared in the Wall Street Journal. The original spelling of “Micro-Soft” was not changed until twelve years after its founding, once the MBAs had transformed the scrappy startup into a big dumb company. With a name like Smucker’s, it has to be good.” Some of my favorites are listed HERE.

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