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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

In the initial phases of any new market you’re developing a product (hopefully with a minimal set of features), getting feedback from customers, refining your product based on user feedback and then re-launching your product. Markets develop for a complex set of factors that are often beyond all of our control.

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

Both Sides of the Table

Matt was one of my inspirations behind Launchpad LA (yes, we’re going to have a program in 2011 – news very, very soon). o Huge on PR, “Be Everywhere” is his motto – fly to NY, proactively everywhere he could get press. To make PR big you need to find a way to “make news”. Confidence is good, cockiness is not. •

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[ADV] Top 5 Ways Social Media Has Changed PR

YoungUpstarts

There was a time, when marketing and PR professionals could take their time, having hours until daily newspaper deadlines. This development caused PR professionals to adopt a new method of communication – social media. This means PR campaigns are becoming more specifically targeted and strategic in their approach.

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Twitter Link Roundup #77 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Joint PR/Ad study finds PR getting higher marks in social media compared to Advertising [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Exciting Web Design Trends to look out for: 2011 Edition – [link]. Half Of U.S.

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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

Gust

Given that 2011 is already behind us, I’d like to take a brief time-out from the usual legal and financial wonkery to wish you and your loved ones a Happy New Year. What is the risk-benefit calculus for developing and protecting proprietary technologies vs. buying or licensing them (“ build vs. buy ”)?

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Announcing nextNY Fellows: An Innovation Community Leadership Initiative

This is going to be BIG.

I am excited to announce nextNY Fellows--a program that will support four new community leaders in 2011 build on what we already have and make it better, all while building their own skills and network. Here's what they will get: - A $500 stipend for 2011 to be used on leadership development. Run two nextNY events (e.g.

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4 Definitive Ways To Deal With Outages

YoungUpstarts

Even a minute of downtime means millions lost in revenue and tons of bad PR. Buffer’s nimble, distributed team came together on Hangouts on a Saturday afternoon and live-blogged developments as their engineers worked behind the scenes to fix the hack and restore services. Sony – Nothing like a heartfelt executive apology.

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