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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. Martin Zwilling.

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Twitter Link Roundup #242 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

and the Internet of Things | UX Booth – crowdspring.co/1wjvAJt. Notes From Behind the Firewall: The State of Web Design in China | Tuts+ Web Design – crowdspring.co/1yCnrPZ. and the Internet of Things | UX Booth – crowdspring.co/1wjvAJt. 5 Things You Can Learn From a Poorly Designed Website – crowdspring.co/1wjFzOX.

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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. Martin Zwilling.

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The Cost Equation for a Startup is Better Than Ever

Startup Professionals Musings

Even for low-tech startups, the scope of information available on the Internet, and its global reach, has had a similar financial impact on the many other challenges facing every startup founder. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies. Marty Zwilling.

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You Don’t Need to be Rich to be an Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

Even for low-tech startups, the scope of information available on the Internet, and its global reach, has had a similar financial impact on the many other challenges facing every startup founder. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies. Marty Zwilling.

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

Steve Blank

Today it’s the Internet that’s going to put the studios out of business. And when it happened (cable, VCR’s, DVD’s, DVR’s, the Internet,) it was a relentless onslaught. and Public Relations. SOPA gives corporations unprecedented power to censor almost any site on the Internet. DVR’s reignite interest in TV.

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8 Key Rules for Starting a Business on a Shoestring

Startup Professionals Musings

A few years ago, before the Internet was pervasive, before everyone carried a smartphone and before do-it-yourself software tools were available for free, it was difficult to reach a critical mass of new customers without spending a million dollars on a website, custom software and television advertising.