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7 Short-Term Business Mistakes Can Limit Your Impact

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, a few years ago, the company Beepi had a vision to build a new market for buying and selling used cars, but became overly focused on fundraising to grow fast, and ignored many customer complaints. Hypermetricemia – metrics for everything. Thus you are driven to short-term growth fixes versus radical change.

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Topspin Backs High Def MP3 Format

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Venice-based Topspin , the music marketing and software firm headed by Ian Rogers, said today that it has inked a deal with Technicolor to distribute its music catalog in a new, high definition, MP3 format. Rogers was the former GM of Yahoo Music, and Topspin has raised funding from the Foundry Group and Redpoint Ventures.

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Los Angeles Tech Launched - Hot List

SoCal CTO

So here's the Hot List for 1/1/2009 - 1/15/2009 Top 5 Posts The 7 Ways to Get Traffic on the Web Why You Need To Lead A Tribe - Seth Godin LA Gets Dugg, Hammered, Screwed How To Get The World Excited About Your Business –The James Siminoff Interview Viral analytics and metrics - go viral young startup Top 20 Keywords SEO Metrics Marketing Social Media (..)

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Interview with Wes Nichols, MarketShare

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We have a very sophisticated, analytics and software platform that over half the Fortune 50 are now using, to help guide how they invest in marketing and sales activities and investments. Essentially, we help them learn how to get more with less, and also how to consider new investments in things like social media, mobile marketing, or video.

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Surveying SoCal's M&A Landscape, with David Siemer

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We don''t spend a lot of time there, except that we''re active investors and bankers who are affected by what''s happening in the IPO market. Google and Yahoo aren''t going to buy them, AOL has already made its bet, and your only real path to an exit is an IPO for any kind of liquidity. which is still a premier market for the world.

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7 Ways To Keep Your Focus On Execution After The Idea

Startup Professionals Musings

Companies that do this best become market leaders. Google , for example, was not the first Internet search provider (think Yahoo!, Smart entrepreneurs architect a value chain that includes customers, partners and vendors, based on market dynamics. Set business goals and milestones, and use metrics to track performance.

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Interview with Josh Stomel, ResumeBucket

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We also provide the consumer a slew of tools, that will help them upload their resume and manage their online identity, plus we also have a resume builder function, detailed metrics on exactly who is viewing their resume, and the ability to create and manage multiple versions of their resume. Are those resume public or private?

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