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Sustainable Strategies for Internet Startup Success

Startup Professionals Musings

In addition, every business has operating costs, like customer acquisition, fulfillment, inventory, and customer service. You have to be found and favored by search engines. Search engines. If you web site is not optimized for search engines (SEO), all your online content and marketing efforts are wasted. like Google.

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7 Strategies For Beating The Failure Odds Online

Startup Professionals Musings

In addition, every business has operating costs, like customer acquisition, fulfillment, inventory, and customer service. You have to be found and favored by search engines. Search engines like Google are still the primary method for finding information on the Internet. Engage your audience with social media. Do them all.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

I use Hootsuite to coordinate my social media activity, which consists of Teten.com, PEVCTech.com , Linkedin , AngelList , and (passively) Twitter and Facebook. I use Diigo , a social bookmarking tool, to keep a record of useful websites. Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc.

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Expenses You Don't Think of When Starting a Business

Software By Rob

The comments here and on a few social bookmarking sites mentioned that you could quit your day job if you wanted to, and that you could live on $2500/month just fine in many cities in the world (although in my hypothetical situation I was speaking about a developer based in the hypothetical U.S.).