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Focus on awareness and metrics are keys to success

Up and Running

Sure, the barriers to entry are lower, and customers are one mere click away from their growing social networks. The more visitors you bring to your website the greater your potential to derive revenue from them regardless of your business model, and without costs growing in proportion. But the noise.

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Episode 3: A Startup Comic Book Company, How to Find a Mentor, and #BigData – The Bcast

Up and Running

I’m on there as a mentor, and I’m mentoring a guy in Nigeria, who’s starting a business. In our culture in particular, men are taught as younger boys that there’s been more modeling around making asks, but for women, it’s not there. At least it wasn’t for me, and people in my social network.