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How to Use Frugal Innovation to Grow Your Startup

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As a startup, you probably don’t have much money to spend on marketing or product development. For example, you might use guerilla marketing techniques to promote your product without spending much money on traditional advertising channels. Mobile banking in developing countries. Examples of successful frugal innovations.

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15 Mobile Security Best Practices For SMBs (Or Anyone Else For That Matter)

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It’s hardly a stretch in this day and age to say that everyone in the corporate workforce has a mobile device, whether it is company issued or personal. Here are some mobile security best practices that people can easily implement to protect themselves (and their devices): 1. by Don DeBolt, Total Defense, Inc.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. ” Fire, Ready, Aim. IPOs dried up.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

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It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. Last year, Amazon signed a major lease at 525 Market Street. In many places, mobile data and hardwired internet were still billed based upon usage. Ditto for Apple.

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Ted Rheingold Founded Dogster in 2004: Five Questions About Building a Startup, Selling a Startup and Whether SF Is Still a Good Place

Hunter Walker

Dogster launched January 12, 2004 (Happy 12th Birthday Dogster!) By the end of 2004 I had brought on two co-founders: John Vars – who is now the Chief Product Office at TaskRabbit, and Steven Reading took over Sales and Revenue. I prefer to find new business opportunities than to duke it out in proven, crowded markets.

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Managing Social Media With Fetch Plus

YoungUpstarts

One of the companies that will feature at the upcoming web and mobile technology startup conference Echelon 2011 is Fetch Plus , a social media and mobile application development company. In any case, Vusion didn’t quit work out. In the end, it was too late.&#. “It is funny to think what could have happened.&#.

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Cyber Security For Your Business – 6 Common Myths Debunked

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These security threats can often be blown out of proportion though, whether it’s via word of mouth, social media or marketing stunts, and which can add unnecessary concern for both businesses and customers. If you have to, run them through email scanning software beforehand. David Midgley is Head of Operations at Total Processing.

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