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28 Entrepreneur Share Their Goals for 2021

Hearpreneur

18- Creating a healthy organisation culture for staff retention. People want to hear and see how reliable and esteemed a product is, so my goal is to establish a trustworthy reputation through influencer marketing and growing a larger social media audience. 26- Finish a detailed company processes wiki. Photo Credit: Alida Karro.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, August 24, 2009 Marching through quicksand I have been spending a lot of time lately talking to people in various media companies: editors and agents, executives, journalists, producers and directors. For established media empires, this is a scary fact.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.

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Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

Now consider a traditional media business. The value of the attention that the media company collects determines how profitable it is. In the old days, these media companies would then themselves plow this profit back into marketing and advertising, and grow. Now consider a traditional media business. Sorry about that.)

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

A group of Seedcamp entrepreneurs started a startup tools wiki for that purpose, and we thought it would be well suited here. Media Temple. Social Media Tracking/Marketing. analytics for social media and online. customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value. social media and email marketing.

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Lessons Learned: The App Store after the gold rush

Startup Lessons Learned

Customers and prospects are overwhelmed by the number of media and companies clamoring for their attention. I think its helpful to think about two kinds of competition for distribution: acquisition competition and retention competition. Retention competition is how you get people to come back to your app. So what can you do?