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5 Ways To Make Sure Your Online Store Is Holiday-Ready In 2014

YoungUpstarts

People who’ve already shopped at your store may be following you on Facebook or Twitter, but engaging with them isn’t going to drive new customer acquisitions. Make sure your inventory, especially on popular gift items, is at a level that will support holiday demand. As a local business, advertising and PR firms might be out of reach.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

After a year in the market, MakeSpace was growing rapidly and our biggest issue was CAC (customer acquisition costs) relative to payback period (when we get our marketing investment back) and relative to LTV (lifetime value). That marketing can be PR or SEO or influencer distribution or other forms of “unpaid” marketing.

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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

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These days sales, marketing and PR people seem to grow on trees. Founders seem to take for granted exactly how in demand a good programmer is. Simultaneously, founders tend to take for granted how in demand bad programmers are too. There is a huge demand for programmers in America – good and bad.

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5 of the most famous (and effective) growth hacks of all time

The Next Web

He mentors young startups at Singapore Management University and True Incube Thailand , a 500 Startups Partner. If a big corporation is pushing a new product, you might expect them to take out TV ads, online ads, maybe hire a PR agency and set up big distribution partnerships. Here are five of the most famous growth hacks of all time.

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Startup Tools

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I sold to you & PR function back in the day (SuperMac) and others to the many companies dating back, but finally E.piphany ~ MediaMap (now is Cision). Thanks for a Great Post. Reply Mary B. , on June 5, 2011 at 1:15 am said: Stumbled on your page by serendipity. Amazing list. The best part though is the tenacity link.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

Both Sides of the Table

IdeaLab has created 75 companies, leading to 8 IPOs, 35 or so acquisitions and more than 5 companies worth in excess of $1 billion. IdeaLab has a philosophy that if they can get a centralized group of expert staff to help with legal, accounting, recruiting, PR, etc. They would launch quickly and test whether or not there is any demand.

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