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How a Virtual Assistant can Help Startup Make More Sales

ReadWriteStart

Despite the variety of present-day communication channels (E-mail, SMS, call, social media), it’s easy to see why building a productive rapport with future clients becomes increasingly tricky. Live chat on social media. Speaking of time-consuming activities, we have to touch upon the live chat on social media.

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Lean LaunchPad – For Deep Science and Technology

Steve Blank

We just finished the 11th annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford — our first version focused on deep science and technology. The existing winter quarter of the class remains the same as we taught for the last 10 years – taking all students’ projects – e-commerce, social media, web, and mobile apps.

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How a Virtual Assistant can Help Startup Make More Sales

ReadWriteStart

Despite the variety of present-day communication channels (E-mail, SMS, call, social media), it’s easy to see why building a productive rapport with future clients becomes increasingly tricky. Live chat on social media. Speaking of time-consuming activities, we have to touch upon the live chat on social media.

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Lean Business Planning with Tim Berry [VIDEO]

Up and Running

We recently had Tim Berry, Palo Alto Software founder and business planning expert, present our Bplans audience with his latest advice on lean business planning. Start your lean business plan today: Download our Free Lean Plan Template one-page-pitch-download.pdf. I’m going to start with what’s a lean business plan.

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15 Entrepreneurs Share What Makes Their Business Unique

Hearpreneur

As far as my research shows so far, it’s the only social network that endeavors to give artists of all kinds not only a venue for collaborating within or across genres, along with the tools to do it, but it also provides members with their own portfolio/blog and multiple, built-in ways to monetize their own original content.

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Why Are These Bestsellers Smashing It on Instagram Stories?

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Since their launch in August 2016, the interactive, real-time nature of video, image, and music-based Instagram stories has become a mainstay of social media campaigns with staying power, heralding an age where brands can enjoy the benefits of more time-consuming content like video in true low-fi, fly on the wall style.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

“We’re using … TinyLetter for our “Content Newsletter” … and Buffer to schedule social media posts. Point Nine Capital uses Mention for media monitoring. I use Hootsuite to coordinate my social media activity, which consists of Teten.com, PEVCTech.com , Linkedin , AngelList , and (passively) Twitter and Facebook.