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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I asked what the audience most needed to hear. This was an audience of mostly first-time entrepreneurs. 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. That happened a lot in 2002 and again in 2008.

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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

Therefore, if you want to bring an MVP ( Minimum Viable Product ) to market, Werdelin approximates that you’ll need $50,000 to $250,000 , depending on the skill sets of the developers and designers you hire. Of course, if you’re hiring an agency, you’re probably looking at 1.5 million plus overhead. times that amount in total costs.

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6 Guerrilla Marketing Tactics For New Businesses

YoungUpstarts

Quite the opposite, guerrilla marketing tactics offer the factor of surprise, which is exactly what it takes to generate buzz, draw the attention of a target audience, and improve visibility. A usual scenario is to infiltrate marketers into their target audience and have them start building hype around the product.

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Guerrilla Marketing: Growth Hacking Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

The way to marketing strategy involves high energy and imagination in order to grab the attention of the audience you want to target. Another really great example of this tactic was in 2002 when Sony hired actors to walk around cities and ask strangers to take selfies with them.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. The best drivers apply the brakes just ahead of the curve (they take out excess costs), turn hard toward the apex of the curve (identify the short list of projects that will form the next business model), and accelerate hard out of the curve (spend and hire before markets have rebounded).

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The Long And Short Of Rebranding Your Business

YoungUpstarts

You may have just been acquired, your business might be trying to come out of a major crisis or you could need to rebrand because your core audience no longer identifies with your business. So between 2002 and 2007, Compaq continued to use their logo with little change. HP Merger With Compaq.

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7 Good Entrepreneurial Habits That Turn Bad

Startup Professionals Musings

Most begin by doing the product development, marketing and sales alone, but struggle making the transition to hiring and coaching others, defining repeatable processes and focusing on future strategy. For example, there once was a social network called Friendster , often credited with starting the social networking boom way back in 2002.