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When Should You Allow Exclusivity in Deals?

Both Sides of the Table

I need to give credit for the topic to PR Malloy who Tweeted me this question. PR Malloy (@diddly_do_indy) June 13, 2015. As a startup this is often the one true source of strong leverage in a negotiation to: Get a better price, get a longer-term commitment, get PR commitments and so forth. ” Here’s what I mean.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

So if you were to use Google or any other search engine, your name would be lost in the crowd. I got an engineering degree and worked on various entrepreneurial projects but my heart was always in data science and analytics. I think that was because PR wanted to be seen as a serious profession like law or accounting.

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium. In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations. He has been an instructor in UCLA Extension for 9 years, and is a frequent contributor to various online publications.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe. 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.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Engineering/QA. PR/Marketing. For startups, PR firms are a waste of money. After friends/family, there are professionals that can make a huge difference. Start a blog.

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

PR and Prose. Thanks to Lauren Gilmore, PR and Prose ! #9- So for example, if own a woman’s shoe company, a name like Lady’s Heels with Deals would be strategic because it incorporates keywords that search engines will recognize in connection with their search terms related to women’s shoes. Mix Amore ?.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #13: To be stealthy or not?

Austin Startup

But I’ll grant that he taught us a lot and had crazy-good engineers. Bazaarvoice came out of stealth mode roaring, though, and Sam Decker, our founding CMO, did a great job blogging on the launch and my long-time friend, Emily Brady at Brady PR, did a great job garnering the media attention that we had been waiting until the right time for?—?when

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