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The Power of Quora & Why Benchmark was Right to Pay Up

Both Sides of the Table

And to give credit where it’s due (in addition to the content that Fred producers) a lot of the discussion works well because of the Disqus commenting platform. Fred talks about it here – he beat me to the punch because I always wanted to write about how awesome this is. It’s an awesome implementation.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. Market Size.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

InfoChachkie

Such Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is modern-day snake oil. Cost Per Click (CPC) or Download (CPD) – As the name implies, advertisers pay only for clicks on its advertisements or when a user downloads its software, case study or whitepaper. Unpaid Search – Never pay a consultant to help you achieve a higher search ranking.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

I am in the middle of writing up some of my thoughts on this and will post about it and let you know. We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 And, I dont like to copy and paste.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

SoCal Delicious

For example when you operate a WordPress blog, you could code nearly everthing below in your 404 page (consider alternatives ). requestHandler.php [L] Please note that the code above kinda disables the Web server’s error handling. By the way, you can use, alter, rewrite … the code from this pamphlet as you like.

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