A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 11, 2010

New book: Web Startup Success Guide. Online guides and support network for founders: StartupToDo.com. Q: You’ve stated that the goal of both your new book ( Web Startup Success Guide ) and your new tool for entrepreneurs ( StartupToDo ) is to double an entrepreneur's chance at success: Increase from 10% to 20%.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

Today, we’ll cover web design marketing best practices and tips for small business. Most businesses, from one person start-ups to small and mid-size businesses to international conglomerates, need to have a presence on the Web. The homepage is typically the most important part of a small business web design.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

Today, we’ll cover web design marketing best practices and tips for small business. Most businesses, from one person start-ups to small and mid-size businesses to international conglomerates, need to have a presence on the Web. The homepage is typically the most important part of a small business web design.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

For many companies, the ability to strike the right tone on social networks is a key way for managers, marketing departments, and owners to reach customers and ensure that a great reputation isn’t a company’s best kept secret. On a social network, as in life, good manners are often the greatest key to success.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners how technology will possibly affect their business tomorrow and here are the responses: #1- Makes growing a community easier. We are also looking at the Core Web Vitals that are due in 2021- which will look at some very important factors that determine user experience on websites.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2011

For some reason, I haven’t heard much about the next generation of the Internet ( Web 3.0 ) lately, which probably means it isn’t happening as fast as everyone predicted. I suspect the real challenge is not the semantic web technology , but new attractive business models from smart entrepreneurs. are appearing. are appearing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2021

Most entrepreneurs don’t even know how to keep track of what people are saying about them on the web, much less how to respond or remove it. Web reputation management, both business and personal, has become a top priority requirement. Remove unwanted content, where possible.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2023

Young entrepreneurs often are so excited by new technology or their latest invention that they forget to translate it into a value proposition that their customers or potential investors can understand and relate to. Entrepreneurs who make this case effectively will get the decision they want, no matter how esoteric their technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2023

The cost of entry to the entrepreneur lifestyle is at an all-time low, but the challenge of winning and success is at an all-time high. Anyone can build a new web site, or publish a smartphone app for a few thousand dollars, but getting market penetration requires a lot more. People who shape the future, like Steve Jobs, did this.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. These nine websites will help you track down the appropriate entrepreneurs. There’s no substitute for experience.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2020

Hiring an expert or a coach to walk you through establishing your business can help you minimise the chances of failure but some entrepreneurs will prefer walking alone. We asked entrepreneurs and business owners about their biggest business failures and here are the inspiring responses. #1- 1- Acting as if I had no disabilities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Anyone can be an entrepreneur today, without a huge investment, bank loans, lawyers, venture capitalists, or Angels. Personalize a simple web site. Don’t expect that you can create a new social networking site in your garage, and steal all the users away from Facebook. business ecommerce entrepreneur startup'

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

I asked a panel of successful young entrepreneurs the following question: What tech trends are you watching closely in the second half of 2012? Pinterest is going to be the website to watch, along with other image-based social networking, search and sales websites. I’m excited to see the web move towards responsive design!

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Sign in All Social Media Tech & Gadgets Business & Marketing Video Mobile Dev & Design Media Social Good Startups Classifieds Mashable Infographics Prev Next How Are People Using Twitter? LinkedIn was curious, so the business social network decided to find out. Whom is he or she connected to?

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Some of the first companies have launched products or services or are in the process of getting there, according to their entrepreneurs. One of them is serving a critical role in a new Norse service offering in Web security." We wrote about their innovative program last fall. They also signed Global eTelecom as a customer, one of U.S.'

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2012

Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. No name, picture, address, or business history only convinces customers that you are hiding, located in an un-trustable country, or don’t have a clue. They will exit quickly. Show evidence of your expertise.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 12, 2013

In the age of the advertiser supported social network, one person is trying to flip the script and create a paid social network. Dalton Caldwell, founder of App.net spoke at SXSW with a session called “ Is There An Alternative To Ad-Supported Social Networking? by Garrett Heath.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 18, 2010

Personally, I believe that the Semantic Web will become mainstream in the next few years (I actually have a bet on this with some college friends). After reading the wonderful blogpost on the BBC’s dynamic semantic publishing system , it reminded me that the Semantic Web has two audiences: the common web user (my mom) and developers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2020

Young entrepreneurs often are so excited by new technology or their latest invention that they forget to translate it into a value proposition that their customers or potential investors can understand and relate to. Entrepreneurs who make this case effectively will get the decision they want, no matter how esoteric their technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

Anyone can be an entrepreneur today, without a huge investment, bank loans, venture capitalists, or Angels. Personalize a simple web site. Don’t expect that you can create a new social networking site in your garage, and steal all the users away from Facebook. The cost of entry has never been lower.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 18, 2012

“Traction is the new IP ” sums up perfectly how the technology space has evolved over the past decade due to the nature of the web. In today’s web landscape, word of mouth drives adoption and can lead to “winner takes all” (or almost all) in both B2C and B2B markets. The same logic holds true for most acquiring companies.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

We’re taking a slightly different approach to our second feature in the Inspiring Entrepreneurs series. The relaunched app dropped the SMS element, and focused entirely on Web-based messages using usernames not phone numbers. The Web-based platform. Entrepreneur Inspiring Entrepreneurs LenovoInspire Profiles and Interviews'

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

Many startup myths threaten to hold back even the best-intentioned entrepreneurs. In spite of those sobering numbers, today, there are close to 400 million entrepreneurs worldwide. They wonder, for example: What percentage of entrepreneurs are successful? What is the average age of an entrepreneur when they start a business?

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Entrepreneurs and business owners have never faced a crisis like the 2020 pandemic. Business funding can help entrepreneurs tackle some of the financial problems at an early stage. Often well-known entrepreneurs and business owners underestimate the importance of a negative persona. The Role of Social Media Platforms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

It seems to me that there is abundant proof in the marketplace of the financial returns to both large and small businesses, the low cost of entry, and the ubiquity of social networks. They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Anyone can be an entrepreneur today, without a huge investment, bank loans, venture capitalists, or Angels. Personalize a simple web site. Don’t expect that you can create a new social networking site in your garage, and steal all the users away from Facebook. The cost of entry has never been lower.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Most entrepreneurs are narrowly set on building a product that they lose sight of the real goal – to solve a problem for a customer. Use copy-paste widgets from around the web like contact forms, Skype buttons, live chat, etc. As you can see, the web is full of tools that let you conjure entire features with the click of a mouse.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Entrepreneurs and business executives seem to be even more focused on their technology than the rest of us, and less inclined to listen to the voice of the customer, even if they remember to ask. Others admit to surfing the web even during religious services. Make social network contacts into two-way conversations.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2018

This includes e-commerce websites that ship internationally, content news sites accessible in the European Union, social networks like Facebook and Instagram, and more. Web and computer information, such as location, IP address, cookie data and RFID tags. Banking and credit card information.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

By Evan Britton Each day, millions of internet users post updates on a variety of social networking sites. Because of all of these updates, there is a wealth of real-time information on the web. Google has also taken notice of the real-time web and they have begun to mix real-time results into their engine.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

The cost of entry to the entrepreneur lifestyle is at an all-time low, but the challenge of winning and success is at an all-time high. Anyone can build a new web site, or publish a smartphone app for a few thousand dollars, but getting market penetration requires a lot more. People who shape the future, like Steve Jobs, did this.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. Almost every entrepreneur I met was using VPN to circumvent the Great Firewall.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

In today’s world, if you don’t have a web site up and running, you will not be perceived as a real company. Investors routinely go to candidate web sites to get a feel for the tone and scope of the company, as well as its maturity and offerings. Reserve the company name on social networks to protect it.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Millennials are a generation of tweeting, SnapChatting, friending, checking-in, texting, selfie-taking diverse individuals interweaving the Webs of cultivated collective online profiles. In my opinion, email is the original social media,” Apple said. Entrepreneur Insider How-To''s Investigations' Special is better.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 25, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Does It Pay to Become an Entrepreneur? 4 Tips for Overcoming the Top Challenge Young Entrepreneurs Face – [link]. 30 Examples of Retro Web Design – [link].

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

With mobile development agencies and product incubators on the rise and more corporate “labs” spinning out each day, there’s no shortage of talent to help you build the next great Web or mobile app. Luck, timing and social engineering are bigger components than most entrepreneurs care to imagine,” adds Werdelin. 3) Facebook.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2014

Entrepreneurs and business executives seem to be even more focused on their technology than the rest of us, and less inclined to listen to the voice of the customer, even if they remember to ask. Others admit to surfing the web even during religious services. Make social network contacts into two-way conversations.

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