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[Review] Rubies In The Orchard

YoungUpstarts

Serial entrepreneur and billionaire Lynda Resnick’s book “ Rubies in the Orchard: How to Uncover the Hidden Gems in Your Business ” provides a fascinating glimpse into the marketing strategies behind brands like POM Wonderful, FIJI Water, Teleflora and the Franklin Mint. Image source. image source ).

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Founders: Learning should be your top 2013 New Year’s resolution

The Next Web

Learn Ruby on Rails , an incredibly powerful and highly scalable object-oriented language, with this ten step tutorial. YouTube has its own channel dedicated to educational content at YouTube EDU. Technical courses from Udemy: Learn how to make iPhone and iPad apps in 1 hour without any programming knowledge. Codecademy.

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How to value your company for sale (Part 1)

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

To stoke an existing sales channel. But one thing they do have is a “channel,&# meaning an established pipeline wherein a product can be pushed (often by salesmen) into customer’s hands. They value your company based on how much money they believe they can get from their channel. Actually, no. To control a market.

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How To Build a Web Startup – Lean LaunchPad Edition

Steve Blank

——— If you’re an experienced coder and user interface designer you think nothing is easier than diving into Ruby on Rails , Nodes.js Emphasis should be on the discovery done for that weeks assigned canvas component (channel, customer, revenue model) but include other things you learned about the business model.

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

January has been a very bad month for Ruby on Rails developers, with two high-severity security bugs permitting remote code execution found in the framework and a separate-but-related compromise on rubygems.org, a community resource which virtually all Ruby on Rails developers sit downstream of. Many startups use Ruby on Rails.

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Behind-the-Scenes of Parody Video Group Vooza, the Tech Startup World’s Spinal Tap

View from Seed

Today, we talk to startup legend and self-made millionaire, Matt Ruby, founder of Vooza — thought leader, disruptor, and the next Steve Jobs. Alright, alright, so none of that is true — but we DO talk to a guy named Matt Ruby who parodies the startup world through his video production company, Vooza.

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Rich Media and Email: Maximize Impact (and Deliverability)

ConversionXL

No other marketing channel builds lifelong relationships like email. It’s a prime reason that email marketing is the preferred marketing channel for customer acquisition and customer retention ( 80% and 81% , respectively). In the above email by Rubi, the left section shows the email with images disabled and appropriate ALT txt.

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