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Twitter Link Roundup #166 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

There’s a tremendous wealth of insight in his answers and the way he engaged the Reddit audience. The Ultimate Photoshop Patterns Collection: 2000+ Patterns – [link]. The photo above shows a young Bill Gates during his early days at Microsoft. This week, Gates participated in a phenomenal Reddit AMA (ask me anything).

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 5: Customer Relationship Hypotheses

Steve Blank

Many of the students had heard phrases that fall under Customer Relationships before; “customer acquisition, SEO/SEM, public relations, Social Network, Advertising, Loyalty programs, cross-sell and up-sell” etc., They had gotten feedback from consultants and industry experts that cities and utilities might be a more receptive audience.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

This led me to realize there were two huge gaping holes in the industry, not just in terms of the way the industry served its customers – although undoubtedly this was a problem – but more importantly, inefficiencies and wastage that were always going to stop the private jet industry being accepted by a wider audience. And it’s simple.

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E&Y Journey 2011, The Great Debate: Go Public or Stay Private

VC Cafe

There were over 2000 participants and around 100 speakers from all over the world. The panel discussed the virtues and vices that startups face when deciding to go public or stay private, or, as one audience member pointed out: to get bought out. Rough waters in Europe are pushing European companies to go public in the US.

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

You now have a public relations nightmare on your hand. Good security pages to pattern after: 37signals (I particularly like how this page works for responsible disclosure while, in a dual-audience fashion, also doubles as being great marketing copy), Twilio , Heroku (again, dual audience), etc.

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5 Data-Backed Tips for Boosting Your PR Response Rate

Duct Tape Marketing

Most people feel that if you have a lot to say then you should say a lot, but this might actually result in you being filtered out by your audience; in a recent Microsoft Corp.

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