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Start-ups are all Naked in the Mirror

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Our software wasn’t fully baked. We had one of the largest US software companies talk about buying us. My competitors from those days STILL love to talk about how much money we raised in February 2000 (get over it already!). If you don’t address it they’re minds are shaped by competitor PR.

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Twitter Link Roundup #223 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

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Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. 786,000 Americans bike to work, up 60% since 2000 – crowdspring.co/RvNk49. Become a Master Typographer: 19 Expert Secrets Creating Custom Lettering – crowdspring.co/1sES4l3.

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Twitter Link Roundup #34 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

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2000+ Illustrator Symbols for Illustrators and Animators – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more!

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Twitter Link Roundup #34 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

crowdSPRING Blog

2000+ Illustrator Symbols for Illustrators and Animators – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more!

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10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups

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Because market is such a broad topic, I’m restricting these lessons to PR marketing (as opposed SEO, SEM, product marketing, etc.). Marketing futures can be really good for enterprise software companies where the information is passed between sales rep and potential customer in terms of near-term roadmap.

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

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Will Software Eliminate Physical Retail? How should one go about pricing their software product? Will Software Eliminate Physical Retail? The Ultimate Photoshop Patterns Collection: 2000+ Patterns – [link]. Why Good-Better-Best Prices Are So Effective | Rafi Mohammed-Harvard Business Review – [link].

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

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I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. Or Salesforce.com who rose to prominence in this same period where they were ramping up PR and shouting from mountain tops when everybody else in the market was mute.