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7 Indications Your New Venture May Not Be Investable

Startup Professionals Musings

On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. Things such as driver-less cars and new medicines are far more than a technology challenge. Your startup is in a high-failure-rate business sector. If you want U.S.

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7 Startup Proposals That May Raise Investor Red Flags

Startup Professionals Musings

On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. Things such as driver-less cars and new medicines are far more than a technology challenge. Your startup is in a high-failure-rate business sector. If you want U.S.

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Entrepreneurs and the Wikipedia Road Map

The Startup Magazine

To capture this search engine gold, the leadership team must first agree this is a priority, create a budget for it, and then adopt a notability strategy. It depends to a large degree on how much legitimate media coverage a subject has received. Boosting Key Media Coverage Wikipedia notability. Social media mentions do not help.

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It’s About Women Running Startups

Steve Blank

Just before the holidays I had coffee with Anne, an ex MBA student running a fairly large product group at a search engine company, now out trying to raise money for her own startup. She had an interesting insight: existing content/media companies were having the same problem as hardware companies that rarely made the leap to new platforms.

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A Guide to Reputation Management: Build an Audience of Superfans

ConversionXL

This process helps you to build an audience by identifying opportunities to: Leverage relevant hashtags; Attend popular trade shows; Make appearances on or sponsor well-liked podcasts; Run social media ads against audiences who follow specific accounts; Team up with large publications (press releases, guest posts). Image source.

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7 New Venture Scenarios That Rarely Attract Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. Things such as driver-less cars and new medicines are far more than a technology challenge. Your startup is in a high-failure-rate business sector. If you want U.S.

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10 College Business Incubators We’re Most Excited About

YoungUpstarts

Boasting resources for life sciences, bio-tech, medical devices, photonics, clean energy, and engineering, BU can help to incubate businesses in just about any physical technology. Engineering Translational Technology Center. At Boston University, there’s an incredible array on business incubation opportunities.

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