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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

You hire people too fast, you over build your products, you try to force market adoption and you do PR blitzes before your product is really ready for prime time. And they seem to have been going really slow in building out the team and you certainly don’t see a ton of too-early PR blitzes from them.

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Startup Lessons Learned 2011 streaming live

Startup Lessons Learned

I have been getting emails and tweets all day from people upset that they cannot get into Startup Lessones Learned 2011 - either here in SF, where we're sold out, or in one of the more than 100 simulcast locations around the world, many of which are sold out, too. If at all possible, please support one of the simulcast locations.

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Why Launching a Startup Is More Expensive Than You Think

mashable.com

And no matter what the latest trends indicate, you will eventually have to spend money on PR and marketing. September 7, 2011 21:32:43 Reply 3 Flag this comment Sushant Sharma Follow Thats a pickle! ;) September 8, 2011 00:45:35 Reply 0 Flag this comment Walter Nienhuis Follow This article is very true. Should we go for it?

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

India has been known for 1000’s of years for health and beauty routines/ideas like Ayurveda/Yoga, which have derived inspiration from Nature. I felt that we should be the brand to share this wealth of knowledge from India to the world. I wanted to be the first Indian beauty/wellness brand to go truly global. 26- Find fulfillment.

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Twitter Link Roundup #118 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Amazon S3 Reports Staggering Growth in 2011 – [link]. crowdSPRING writer interview: 12 Questions: Meet Vinay and Asha (India) – [link]. An interesting drill-down into Apple’s valuation – [link]. Understanding J.C. Penney’s Risky New Pricing Strategy – [link]. Is Apple building a holographic TV?

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Cracking The Code: State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment

Cracking the Code

You could argue that it takes some time to restart the SaaS flywheel after a slow year, but an acceleration in 2010 should at least translate into a stronger 2011 guidance, which is not really the case (10/11 growth median is 18%, so barely above 2010). mba india. ► 2011. (2). Thanks for the great post ! Amit said.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

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