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When The Mobile Evolution Turns To Revolution

YoungUpstarts

Leading companies are focusing on the development and distribution of dynamic mobile apps, reaching consumers and potential consumers on the one device that is never far from reach. New releases can be distributed and sold directly to the consumer via the mobile app. What about small businesses?

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Build it and they won’t come: How and why growth hacking came to be

The Next Web

But this door quickly closed: Facebook changed the OpenGraph’s parameters due to, in its view, a bad user experience with over-optimized and aggressive video posting. 05 percent CTR on Facebook in 2011. Whether free or paid, a successful distribution channel typically becomes saturated quickly as competitors jump in.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder. startupcto

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How to Build a Messaging Strategy that Grabs Your Customer’s Attention

ConversionXL

Make sure to update and re-distribute them as needed. But they didn’t just say “no bear can get inside”, they had their cooler tested and approved by the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee , which Yeti showcased as social proof : That was in 2011. Everybody on your team should have access to this key information, and refer back often.

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How To Choose A Market For Your Startup Or Small Business

crowdSPRING Blog

The global art market is believed to be about $61 billion (2011). According to a new report from The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF), “The number of art-market transactions in 2011 was 36.8 Let’s illustrate with an example – using a fictional new online marketplace for the purchase and sale of art.

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The Class That Changed the Way Entrepreneurship is Taught

Steve Blank

Business plans presume that building a startup is a series of predictable steps requiring execution of a plan which assumes a series of known facts: known customers, known features, known pricing, known distribution channel. Launched in 2011, the Lean LaunchPad capstone entrepreneurship class was unique in that it was: team-based.

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When Krave Jerky Showed up in Class with a $435,000 Check

Steve Blank

Hershey just bought Krave Jerky, a team in our 2011 Berkeley Lean LaunchPad class, for >$200 million. —– Jon Sebastiani and his team came into the 2011 Berkeley Lean LaunchPad class with several key observations: Snack foods were a large ~$35 billion but the moribund food category was starving for innovation and modernization.