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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Any other kind of viral outreach? See Branchout an Example of Viral Spread Opportunity for Startups. Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? How will we address these without significant cost? Refer a friend?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Any other kind of viral outreach? See Branchout an Example of Viral Spread Opportunity for Startups. Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? How will we address these without significant cost? Refer a friend?

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Challenge of Predicting Winners

SoCal CTO

As I look at more and more start-ups predicated on viral growth, and at the use of social marketing, its becoming simultaneously easier to understand some aspects of viral growth and still a gap in understanding whats going to be that "hook" that will grab people at the end of the day.

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6 Guerrilla Marketing Tactics For New Businesses

YoungUpstarts

The fact that guerrilla marketing is low-cost doesn’t go at the expense of its quality. Flash mobs. There’s no better way to capture the attention of a great number of people at the same time than staging a flash mob. by Nate Vickery, editor-in-chief of Bizzmarkblog.com. This doesn’t have to be bad at all. Undercover marketing.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

It seems the focus on “virtual&# goods has been both the demo of the consumer as well as the fact that by definition virtual goods have almost no marginal costs to the seller so giving a huge slice to the carrier (and Zong) isn’t a problem since actual costs are ~ $0. 15mm in Series A. Read more: TechCrunch.

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

It was one of those brilliant startup brainstorms that comes to the team in a flash, with a giant thunderclap. We had endless arguments internally about what features it should include, how the avatars should look, and how much it should cost. Just load them all in and choose a low cost-per-click. We finally settled on a $1.99

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5 Tech Innovations You Might Be Happier With — and Without

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Then, there’s the cost of repairs , which can shoot up whenever you add a more complex part; the parts cost more, and so does the repair because it takes longer. The average cost of repairing a bumper rose from $1,845 for a 2014 model to $3,550 two years later after a distance sensor was added.

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