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No, that IS NOT a competitive advantage

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Software patents are especially useless for small, bootstrapped startups. Next week I'll go into depth on some true unfair competitive advantages — ones that cannot be overcome even by a giant company, a funded company, a bootstrapped company, or an open-source movement. Leave a comment and join the conversation.

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Twitter Link Roundup #239 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

Helpful Tips to Improve Your Checkout Conversions | Designmodo – crowdspring.co/1sajjUZ. Always Wrong, Never In Doubt: A 7 Step Framework For Starting a Company | by @DanMartell - crowdspring.co/1sTawss. The ultimate guide to Bootstrap | Webdesigner Depot – crowdspring.co/YTL8qt. 1Ce86Fp.

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How to Establish an Agency Content Strategy When Outbound Stops Working

ConversionXL

The same goes for your sales conversations; why did new leads seek you out, and what objections do you hear during the sales process? Uncovering popular articles and conversations will show you what people are most interested in, which is useful for “seeding” your content research. Collect data sources for quantitative insights.

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Building Something vs. Proving Something

View from Seed

Increasingly, seed rounds occur after some sort of pre-seed or at least some period of bootstrapping. Conversely, I’m also often surprised how little can be built that still gets investors excited about an opportunity. I have a related framework that company milestones fall into two buckets.

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Tortoise vs. the Hare

Austin Startup

Both of these bodies of work and frameworks for thinking about startups fit really well for funded startups who plan to shoot the moon (launch the rocket to escape velocity and go as far and fast as possible). Join the conversation! Already we see books like Play Bigger entering the fray. Stanford’s CS183c?—?Blitzscaling

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New conference website, speakers, agenda

Startup Lessons Learned

The way forward requires getting everyone together in a room, and having a conversation about where were headed. Tactics were discussed out of context, and there wasnt an overarching framework for figuring out what works for what kinds of companies, industries, and stages of growth. Thats what this conference is for.

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Why Website Templates Are Not Optimized (and What to Do About It)

ConversionXL

But there’s something almost no one is talking about… Website templates are not optimized for conversions. Running campaigns in high volume in order to get conversion rates requires quick turnaround, which templates are great for. As with any other site, the process of conversion research and testing should begin.

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