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We’re Hiring a Platform and Operations Associate at NextView

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You are a “digital native” with a strong interest in new technology and have hands-on proficiency with many online tools for managing social media interactions, event production, and project management. You have 2-4 years of professional experience in marketing, social media, event coordination, or business operations. A Final Note.

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How to Find and Close Angel Investors from a Standing Start

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These include the top investor list on AngelList in Boston and NYC , as well as media-produced roundups like Business Insider’s and AlleyWatch’s. The one takeaway I can share with certainty is that the search for angels shouldn’t be a narrow and haphazard effort concentrating on purely financial motives and outcomes.

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The Great Voice Consolidation

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Take streaming media for example, if I say Play Isaiah Rashad or Stream Boogie Nights I really don’t care what service either comes from as long as it does. This reveals another strategic value the move by many media streaming companies to secure exclusive rights to content or create their own.

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Nobody Announces Their Seed Round Anymore and That’s a Mistake

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You can of course share privately that you’ve raised a round, but it’s a different story than a prospective employee (and their friends & family who she is going to brag to) can easily find it with a web search. and hopefully media coverage?—?by Perception is reality in the game of recruiting. Inbound partners.

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Why Investing in the Everyday Economy Isn’t Just a Consumer Strategy

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This technology enhances a consumer experience for literally thousands of media properties across the web. In the end, we look for companies dramatically improving people’s everyday lives first, and then search for startups that design the business model around that transformation. 2) Pervasive Tools. Alignable ).

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Should Startups Blog? An Essay (with Data) to Decide Once and For All

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My definition is as follows: Content marketing is just solving the same problems that your product solves through media you create and promote. You don’t need to publish as much content: Without an email list, you need to constantly appear to your audience in their social feeds and search results just to stay relevant.

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How to Hire a Content Marketing Consultant for Your Startup [Process & Checklist]

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You can use pageviews or engagement metrics such as number of social media shares or comments on blog posts (usually a slippery slope), or you can build an initial subscription list even without a product, which can be used to nurture leads, get feedback, or even ask people to spread your message and grow reach. Why should we do it?

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