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16 Great Startup Posts from March

SoCal CTO

Death By Competitive Analysis - Steve Blank , March 1, 2010 Trading emails with a startup CEO building an iPhone app, I asked him why potential customers would buy his product. PR for Startups - Tony Wright dot com , March 2, 2010 My startup (RescueTime) has enjoyed some pretty ridiculously good PR (online, print, and video).

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

This is typically called “bootstrapping&# and it is fraught with potential pitfalls and dangers. What is bootstrapping? So, what does it mean to bootstrap a company? Bootstrapping involves launching a business on a low budget. Why bootstrap? Either way, bootstrapping is a viable model.

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Quickly Unpacking Microsoft’s Acquisition Of GitHub

Haystack

Not yet profitable but invaluable to developers worldwide, the decade-old company bootstrapped, differentiated from formidable competitors GitLab and Atlassian’s BitBucket, weathered leadership upheavals, and eventually ingested lots of venture capital which helped them weather the challenges they faced.

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Twitter Link Roundup #48 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: AnswerLab - [link]. Ultimate Guide to HTML Emails – Basics, Tips, Tutorials and Resources – [link]. Tips on Effective Use of Crowdsourcing for Small Businesses & Entrepreneurs – [link]. 5 Tips for Managing Your Company’s Brand on the Web – [link].

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Twitter Link Roundup #48 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: AnswerLab - [link]. Ultimate Guide to HTML Emails – Basics, Tips, Tutorials and Resources – [link]. Tips on Effective Use of Crowdsourcing for Small Businesses & Entrepreneurs – [link]. 5 Tips for Managing Your Company’s Brand on the Web – [link].

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Twitter Link Roundup #157 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

If your small business or startup sends email newsletters or other email marketing campaigns, what is the best time of day to send those emails? Small Business Marketing: Best Times And Days To Send Email For Opens And Click-Throughs – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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36 places where you can submit your startup for some coverage

blog.traindom.com

We didn’t have a PR company or a bunch of contacts, hence we needed to start from scratch. So I took my sweet time Googling different websites that would take submissions, tips or published their editor’s email. Subscribe to our RSS feed or get Traindom blog posts sent to you by email. Here are my lists.