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Interview with Dave Fink and Jonathan Neddenriep, Postie

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Dave Fink: Postie is a building a technology platform with a mission of making direct mail marketing behave as easily and dynamically as your favorite, programmatic channels. That distributed print cloud enables a speed of iteration that most marketers would not expect is possible. What is a print cloud?

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When Should Technical Founders Become CEO?

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Yet if you look at some very successful market changes in the last few years it does point to technical prowess in the number 1 seat. In many ways that might be one way to interpret even Facebook where Sheryl stepped in as COO but by all accounts ran much of Facebook for a few years (other than product).

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

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I was recently talking with a startup company who wanted me to try their product. I’m a big believer in product stability & performance before adding too many features. If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile? I see this mistake all the time, actually. SEO is seldom “free.”.

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

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I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. Fund raising (as is much of life) is a sale – pure and simple. As with any sales campaign you need to: Qualify your buyers early so you focus your scarce resources on people likely to buy your product. ” (Zig Ziglar).

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

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I keep my competitors as friends and those that didn’t choose me or my product as friends, too. And for my own good I vowed to have relationships in China and knowledge of the local markets. This company is back on the market raising money again. And don’t make the same mistake twice. Quite the opposite.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

I keep my competitors as friends and those that didn’t choose me or my product as friends, too. And for my own good I vowed to have relationships in China and knowledge of the local markets. This company is back on the market raising money again. And don’t make the same mistake twice. Quite the opposite.

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The Startup Guide To SXSW Panel Picking

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SXSWi is five days of presentations and panel discussions from some of the biggest thought leaders in Interactive digital media space. Branding / Marketing / Publicity marketing, PR, publicity. . Bootstrapping process, product development, Prototyping. . Bootstrapping enterprise, marketing, Sales. .

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