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Business Startup Tools: A Curated List of Our Favorite Tools and Resources to Build Your Company

Up and Running

BlueHost : Simple and affordable hosting that’s ideal for anything from WordPress to full-fledged web apps. With Google Surveys, you can target users from around the web and get instant feedback on your business idea. Social media tools. pr.co : Outsource creating a press room for your web site. Payment systems.

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Episode 50: Video Content and Profitability with Seth David

Mike Michalowicz

Seth makes extensive use of social networking tools, and web videos to maximize the impact of his training. An accounting firm based in Santa Monica, CA, specializing in bankruptcy, from 2001 to 2003. You need to produce content for the web. You need to produce content for the web. Nerd Enterprises, Inc.

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

Both Sides of the Table

And Ron Conway has proclaimed that he wants to do up to 40-50 rapid-fire deals in the next 18 months in what is becoming known as the “real time web” (e.g. Investment banks that last September seemed destined for bankruptcy are suddenly feeling flush and motivated to stimulate more business. Notice that I didn’t say “social networking.”

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Facebook Advertising / Marketing: Best Metrics, ROI, Business Value

Occam's Razor

You've deployed five, six or 15 web analytics tools on your website/mobile app. or Google Display Network. Even if they don't understand the short or long term potential of the social web revolution. Friends of Fans gives the size of your second level network (almost 100% useless).

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Why Twitter is A Media Company ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Twitter isn’t really a social network. But Twitter isn’t really a social network. Dick Costolo rightly boasts that Twitter is one of the largest referrers of traffic on the web. In the private markets Twitter commands a higher revenue multiple all the other high profile Web 2.0

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How Slack and Flickr Founder Stewart Butterfield (Twice) Mastered the Art of the Pivot

Reid Hoffman

Stewart is quite possibly the “grandmaster” of the pivot, having turned two different failed video game companies into, respectively, Flickr (the first image-based social network, which presaged the success of Facebook, Instagram, and Snap) and Slack, the incredibly successful workplace messaging and collaboration service.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

I remember having a merger called off at the last minute and having a planning meeting at a pub to figure out how to run a bankruptcy process (luckily, we never had to do it). It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, before the really profitable years of social networking and when many in the industry were despondent.