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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

If you create a business and start building products and go into an incubator or raise angel/seed money and don’t think about Market Size and Market Structure I only have one question: Why? That marketing can be PR or SEO or influencer distribution or other forms of “unpaid” marketing. But you should.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

Both Sides of the Table

Not because they didn’t want to do Pay-per-click (they are huge buyers of SEM) but because they didn’t want other people to know what they paid for clicks! IdeaLab has a philosophy that if they can get a centralized group of expert staff to help with legal, accounting, recruiting, PR, etc. I think this makes no sense.

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Twitter Link Roundup #215 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

1871 to launch incubator for female entrepreneurs – crowdspring.co/1gnuwsz. 4 Surprising SEM Stats Every E-Commerce Marketer Should Know | Search Engine Land – crowdspring.co/1kD9ZHH. Our Dangerous Obsession With The MVP | TechCrunch by Bill Aullet – crowdspring.co/P5QJpf. Why Big Teams Suck – crowdspring.co/1g1zYk1.