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How Not To Run Your Own Technology Startup

YoungUpstarts

Salesforce.com – Sales lead and sales pipeline management. Amazon EC2 – Computing, server management, hosting. Paper Trail – Log acquisition, merging from multiple servers, and analysis. Lead Generation and Contact Management. LinkedIn – Leveraging each person in the company’s network.

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How 99Designs.com came to be

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

During lunch at school, he would have sales calls with customers and say that he had a hard stop at 1pm. To this day they have auctioned off $55m worth of websites with 55% of website sales ending above it’s initial sales price. Pick up a book on sales and negotiating. Some vendors go bankrupt.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 5: Customer Relationship Hypotheses

Steve Blank

Many of the students had heard phrases that fall under Customer Relationships before; “customer acquisition, SEO/SEM, public relations, Social Network, Advertising, Loyalty programs, cross-sell and up-sell” etc., But the big project for the week was testing and analyzing Customer Acquisition Costs. The results were disappointing.

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Work Less, Get More Done, Convenient Open Source, What a Startup.

Software By Rob

Making Open Source Convenient: JumpBox – A startup focused on making it dead-simple to get started with open source applications, they create virtual machines completely pre-configured to just start and go (including versions that runs on Amazon EC2). If you’re having trouble installing an open source app, JumpBox is your answer.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Amazon EC2. great web customer acquisition tutorials. turn customer feedback into sales and relationships. SaaS Sales Team Compensation â?? Startups For Sale. Jing Project. Screenflow Pixelmator. Snapz Pro X. SimpleCDN (commercial). CoralCDN (academic). Amazon CloudFront. Cloud Infrastructure. Google App Engine.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

There is nothing on sales. Can you add useful resource for generating sales for start-ups. Reply Martin Henk , on June 8, 2011 at 6:13 am said: Impressive list, but missing a key ingredient: Sales management tools. Reply jade , on February 27, 2011 at 2:25 pm said: Great compilation. removed from the list. Yep, C’est moi.