Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2016

Celebrate the ability to pay yourself a salary. Having enough revenue to finally give yourself a salary is an inspiring event, and one that you should savor. New business models that provide an ongoing revenue stream, or a secondary stream from advertising, raise your margins and can give you some additional satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2012

Taking that first salary after a long dry spell is an inspiring moment, and a great celebration with friends. Working on that unique design, or completing the breakthrough for an innovative patent, are moments of inspiration that you will never forget, especially if they become your competitive edge. Marketing is top priority.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

For a small business with constantly-strained capacity it can be incredibly difficult to post a job, sort through the resumes, vet the candidates, check those references, negotiate salary and benefits packages, execute the employment agreement, and complete the HR paperwork for payroll, insurance, pension plan, etc. Ask around.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2015

Celebrate the ability to pay yourself a salary. Having enough revenue to finally give yourself a salary is an inspiring event, and one that you should savor. New business models that provide an ongoing revenue stream, or a secondary stream from advertising, raise your margins and can give you some additional satisfaction.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

AUGUST 27, 2011

Organically, graphic design competitions were happening with no money involved. Soon people from like coffeeshops and non-tech businesses were finding their way to his SitePoint site to post design contests. The design contests were buried in the forums so Mickiewicz knows that he was onto something. I guess this makes sense.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Taking that first salary after a long dry spell is an inspiring moment, and a great celebration with friends. Working on that unique design, or completing the breakthrough for an innovative patent, are moments of inspiration that you will never forget, especially if they become your competitive edge. Marketing is top priority.

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Sweat Equity Intellectual Property Viral Salary 222

www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Design Articles and Tutorials. Graphic Design Theory. Design Downloads. Web Design. Research the cost of advertising your product. Do an initial financial projection based on competitors’ prices, your development costs, and the advertising costs to see if your product is financially viable. Developers.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

Similarly, designing an iOS-­friendly app cost us a lot of developers’ hours, but hasn’t gotten traction so far. This channel is also quite fast because it’s easy to test ­­ just make sure you have someone who has experience dealing with online advertising platforms. Well, then you’ve got to go viral. Product virality is an art.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Gadea leveraged his connections in Silicon Valley to seed viral distribution of the product, which, in turn, generated the revenue to hire engineers and scale the company. Wigzo is an AI cloud automation tool that ecommerce merchants can use for personalization , analytics, and advertising. Wigzo spent $80k on their MVP.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Gadea leveraged his connections in Silicon Valley to seed viral distribution of the product, which, in turn, generated the revenue to hire engineers and scale the company. Wigzo is an AI cloud automation tool that ecommerce merchants can use for personalization , analytics, and advertising. Wigzo spent $80k on their MVP.

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Sweat Equity Software Review Vesting Cofounder 50

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 7, 2016

This probably means capitalizing on the unique experience or abilities of the founding team, choose trade-offs in things like language/framework, algorithms, UX design , and delivery platform that the team is particularly adept in and thus can create quickly and with low risk. Social Media makes group-games viral.

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sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

It meant free advertising for the company, it made them look good, it was an interesting enough idea that they might have potentially picked up natural links anyway and each widget included a link back to the “download this widget&# page on their site. Plan a bit of post-launch viral content.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 15, 2015

We just love sharing articles about fonts, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! Why VCs Draw Big Salaries but Look for Founders Who Take Little crowdspring.co/1bf5Zuh. Paging Buff Design Snobs! 1P4EpCo.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Because.NET is designed to extend, not disrupt. NET is designed to tightly integrate with and seamlessly extend the Microsoft stack in extremely powerful but ultimately incremental ways. Some us have evolved past the visual designers. Did you confused the Visual Studio WinForms designer with C#, then accidentally call it.NET?

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