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3 Tips To Help Small Businesses Get More Customers In A Post-Google Search World

YoungUpstarts

By Trevor Sumner, Chief Technology Officer of LocalVox. Almost half of local business listings have basic errors in Name, Address and Phone number – what’s called NAP in the search engine world. And as a bonus, getting your Name, Address and Phone number right everywhere online (website, social, directories, etc.)

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Are You Putting Your Rock Star Customers To Work?

YoungUpstarts

If you can harness the knowledge, natural enthusiasm, and peer influence of your very best customers — I call them “Rock Star” customers — they’ll market, sell, and help develop breakthrough products for your firm better than your internal resources can do, and often at a fraction of the cost. Not necessarily.

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Startup Mentors

SoCal CTO

I've had several Startup CTO Consulting sessions recently where it became apparent that the Founder needed help with the business and product as much or more than the technology. From Why Every Startup Founder Needs a Mentor - And How to Find One Don’t just fall in love with someone’s reputation, perceived celebrity or name.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

(Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. Because of IMVUs reputation, Ive also had the opportunity to serve as an advisor or board member for more than a dozen startups.

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. And so was his reputation for being verbally abusive to his direct reports.

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Transcript of How to Build a Community Around Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

He is a community and collaboration strategy consultant, advisor and speaker. That’s the first time I’ve seen that name, actually. And actually before we even get into that, I like how you pronounce my name correctly the first time. No, my real name is Jonathan. My stage name is Jono. Jono Bacon: No.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Each document has a from-language, to-language, and a name. For example: in my translation site story, above, the first milestone might be just a plain ugly web page where a company can create an account, create a new project, then upload named documents into that project. The system counts how many words are in each document.