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8 Simple Steps to Start an Online Business With No Money

Kodorra

Visit online forums, social networks, and blogs and check customer star rating and comments. Whether it is advertisement model, B2C (Business to Consumer) ecommerce, affiliate or subscription, picking the right choice could determine the rise or fall of your business. Don’t forget to choose a sound business model.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

However, about 5% of the VCs in our database, mostly younger ones, are trying to build a competitive advantage by crawling large amounts of publicly available data and building analytical functions to flag companies with accelerating traction to them. Cobalt helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy. 6) Negotiate deal.

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

David Teten

I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. PEStack.com : a comprehensive database of private equity focused software, data and marketplace providers.

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The 50 Best Marketing Strategies For Small Business

Mike Michalowicz

Create an interactive, regularly updated site or blog , or by build informative yet informal profiles on social networking sites like Facebook or Twitter. A great offer goes a long way quickly…especially through our favorite social networking sites! Build a strong database with a focus on media/bloggers.

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9 Reasons Why Small Businesses Should Care About Content Marketing

Brandanew

This helps them build a lead database. In a world driven by social media mentions, reviews, and a Google search before you buy anything, it’s not hard to believe that your customers (B2B or B2C/ Pens or Cars) are looking you up. Your Blog takes care of your social content and Email content needs.

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Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

VC Cafe

Established location-based services to enable the CSP offer B2B and B2C services based on mobile positioning, tracking & locating, turn-by-turn navigation and mobile local search. IPgallery’s deployed converged communication solutions include core network centric solutions and Value Added Services for residential and business subscribers.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Blogs (web development): Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots – [link] Company blog of thoughtbot covering Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, Javascript, databases, and mobile development. You’ve got everyone who ever breathed in that database. Simple editing. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.