Startup Professionals Musings

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Find the Best of the Best Blogs for Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Blog aggregators. Other popular aggregators include TheHuffingtonPost and BusinessInsider. I review these, as well as contribute entries occasionally for entrepreneurs and startups. One of my favorites in this category is MyAlltop , run by a well-known name with entrepreneurs, Guy Kawasaki.

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9 Transaction Models Shape Your Customer Experience

Startup Professionals Musings

As a place to start, I recommend that you model your business after one of the following archetypes, understanding the pros and cons, rather than defining a new one with a large inherent learning curve: The aggregator – one-stop shop. Aggregators delight customers by offering a vast array of products or services under the same experience.

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10 Top Marketing Content Sources For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Curation is humanly aggregating, filtering, and re-posting the best-of-the-best content on the web, relative to your product or service area. A forum is a discussion site on a relevant subject, hosted and moderated by you, which adds authority, content, and traffic to your website. Curation, the most efficient content.

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Ten Sources to the Best Business Blogs

Startup Professionals Musings

Blog aggregators. Other popular aggregators include Bloglines and popurls. I review these, as well as contribute entries occasionally for entrepreneurs and startups. One of my favorites in this category is MyAlltop , run by a well-known name with entrepreneurs, Guy Kawasaki.

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Will A Business Incubator Help Hatch Your Startup?

Startup Professionals Musings

As evidence that it does work, TechCrunch recently aggregated the combined valuation of YCombinator graduates at $14.4 An incubator won’t help you if the market opportunity is small, the competitors are large, or your solution doesn’t address a real need. billion, with the total amount raised topping $2 billion.

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10 Content Marketing Examples for Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Curation is humanly aggregating, filtering, and re-posting the best-of-the-best content on the web, relative to your product or service area. A forum is a discussion site on a relevant subject, hosted and moderated by you, which adds authority, content, and traffic to your website. Curation, the most efficient content.

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Startup Accelerators are Entrepreneur Boot Camps

Startup Professionals Musings

To convince you it can work, TechCrunch recently aggregated the combined valuation of YCombinator companies at $7.78 For that reason, I am a strong proponent of incubators that screen prospective clients carefully, selecting only the best ones, and track whether they can handle responsibilities, like paying the rent.

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