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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 75th Session Spotlights The Midwest

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First up, Priyanshu Harshavat, from Evanston, Illinois, presented Socioclean , a service for cleaning up your reputation on social networks. Monetization models, while not yet validated, can come from charging the customer base that is already acquainted with the service, as well as selling the white label solutions to colleges.

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Seven Reasons Why Customer Reference Programs Fail

YoungUpstarts

Customer advocates can also lead customer communities and forums, create content and video, contribute valuable knowledge and resources to product development efforts, defend your brand on social media sites, and more. Enthusiastic references are extremely valuable to a business. Does she want to affiliate with her peers?

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

David Teten

Point Nine Capital uses 15Five for continuous employee feedback. This is a great example of why data businesses have substantial moats. Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. How Private Equity and VC Investors Are Using Social Media. *

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Startup Tools

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– Mike [link] Reply Jeff Skinner , on May 24, 2010 at 9:28 am said: Steve, you don’t know me though I use your ‘Customer Development process’ video in my classes (Entrepreneurship at London Business School). Jeff skinner Faculty, London Business School. Can we touch base on this.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 25: Nigel and Vaughn Caldon and Kerry Frank

Steve Blank

Nigel and Vaugn Caldon , co-founders of BallStar social network for basketball players. We’re living on 50 bucks a week, a family of five (with the business) in the basement of our home. We have some employees, and we never missed payroll and we’re trying to change the world right? Nigel Caldon. Vaughn Caldon.

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Software & Information Industry Association survey

BeyondVC

It is always helpful to get benchmark data on your competitors and on other companies that have a similar business model. We encourage you to invite your software industry portfolio companies to participate in the SIIA Software Industry Financial Survey , conducted with assistance from Deloitte & Touche LLP and its affiliates.

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Things to Avoid When Recruiting Co-founders

grasshopperherder.com

We’re testing a viral loop, direct sales, and affiliate marketing.&# If I can steal your idea by just hearing it, there is no defensible business model there. Reply Josh Strike says: January 18, 2011 at 10:50 am Tristan, the only thing I disagree with on an emotional level is the NDA business.