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6 Cost-Cutting Recommendations For New Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. For startups, social media and color printers have essentially replaced the need for external public relations and marketing services.

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Who’s Doing the Learning?

Steve Blank

As soon as they had designed the product, they found a contract manufacturer to build the product in China. Alice and Bettina are hands-on mechanical and electrical engineers, so instead of assuming everything would go smoothly, they wisely got on a plane to Dongguan China and worked with the factory directly. They learned a ton.

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Who’s Doing the Learning?

Steve Blank

As soon as they had designed the product, they found a contract manufacturer to build the product in China. Alice and Bettina are hands-on mechanical and electrical engineers, so instead of assuming everything would go smoothly, they wisely got on a plane to Dongguan China and worked with the factory directly. They learned a ton.

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Entrepreneurs Today Don’t Need A Big Budget To Start

Startup Professionals Musings

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. For startups, social media and color printers have essentially replaced the need for external public relations and marketing services.

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Twitter Link Roundup #152 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Using mTurk to interview 100 customers (in 4 hours) | Customer Development Labs - [link]. Using mTurk to interview 100 customers (in 4 hours) | Customer Development Labs - [link]. Using mTurk to interview 100 customers (in 4 hours) | Customer Development Labs - [link].

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Why The Movie Industry Can’t Innovate and the Result is SOPA

Steve Blank

and Public Relations. ” It’s too bad the head of the MPAA – an ex Senator - made a mockery of her words when he wondered “ why our online censorship can’t be like China ?” Filed under: Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan , Customer Development.