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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". So naturally, we started getting all this product awareness, right?

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Startup Lessons From Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon

InfoChachkie

By 2012, total sales exceeded 50 million copies and founding band member Roger Waters was cited by Forbes as the second highest paid musician of the year, pulling in $88 million. Pink Floyd recorded DSOTM after a year of writing and performing the material in front of live audiences. Pay To Play.

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

InfoChachkie

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. Who do I write the check to and where do I send it? How do you profitably get the pain reliever to the consumers experiencing the pain? Patents and Trademarks. Share and Enjoy.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

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But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about. They became both a thought leader in the space as well as a beautifully designed product. Do you have sales productivity software?

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

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I guess let’s file this under sales & marketing advice. 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. Every time I write a post I send it out on Twitter.

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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

InfoChachkie

If we hadn’t done well on Hacker News we would have needed to have some serious product/market fit discussions.". When a discussion about the merits of responsive design spontaneously erupted on our thread, we commented from a industry perspective, without simply pitching our product. that is attractive to that particular community.".

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23 Startup Tips From Oprah Winfrey

InfoChachkie

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. After being rejected by ABC, Oprah left WLS, formed Harpo Productions and launched a national show. Her fans knew that she was not “for sale.”

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