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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 And I would rather, even before the executive summary, have something to play with (a demo)…” It falls in the category of show don’t tell. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I was starting.

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Is This Startup Ready For Investment?

Steve Blank

Since 2005 startup accelerators have provided cohorts of startups with mentoring, pitch practice and product focus. However, accelerator Demo Days are a combination of graduation ceremony and pitch contest, with the uncomfortable feel of a swimsuit competition.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #17: On failure and resilience

Austin Startup

Last night, Cotter was one of our keynote speakers, along with Mark Cuban, at the University of Texas for Longhorn Startup Demo Day (the event was just fantastic, by the way, and Josh Baer, Ben Dyer, and Bob Metcalfe deserve a huge round of applause for it). As of today, RetailMeNot is worth $1.33 But most of us simply aren’t savants.

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How to Get Early Customers to Respond to Your Cold Emails

www.ashmaurya.com

Robert has been working in software since 2005. If they have a demo or a trial, you should pursue it and see what you think. Best practices are a good play for an industry like engineering consultants. ” “I am interested in speaking with people in the consulting engineering business to learn what their problems are.

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

Both Sides of the Table

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. Trust doesn’t come from one 45-minute Powerpoint pitch or 30-minute demo. This is a demo + a high-level deck. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. Create scarcity.

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Is Your SaaS Homepage As Optimized As You Think?

ConversionXL

Do the same old rules from 2005 still apply? Do you have enough text for search engines? As a SaaS company, you might rely on your navigation to get visitors to your pricing or demo page, for example. Let’s put aside the search engines, who need more than a sentence to be full. Of course, there are dozens.

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How To Blog Like A Pro

Altgate

Over time, understanding your “demo&# will help you write better for them. Webmaster Tools is a service that allows you to improve the visibility of your site to Google and other search engines. It also has a cool feature called re-search which provides other search results to users who arrived from a search engine.

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