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8 Tactics To Make You A Fearless Business Innovator

Startup Professionals Musings

As a potential investor, I always think of the high rate of failure of disruptive technologies, due to the longer learning curve of customers, infrastructure change consistently required, and higher marketing costs. Don’t forget the new social media platforms and industry forums.

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9 Success Principles To Propel Your Next New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Offering one more social media site (over 200 already exist on Wikipedia) probably won’t work. Don’t forget to market yourself before, during, and after your initial idea, through social media, websites, and events. Get support from credible industry groups and partners. Focus on a solution that is scalable world-wide.

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5 Startup Cost Realities Most Founders Underestimate

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, I come from a software background, and back in the early PC days, it could easily cost half a million dollars for a team of professionals to produce a commercial product. Now, with powerful high-level tools and open source software, winning smartphone apps can be built by a good hacker for a few thousand dollars.

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Clubhouse put a big bullseye on social audio

VC Cafe

The early buzz of Clubhouse (despite being invite-only and iOS having a total reach of about 2 million users) along with the rising popularity of podcasts has shown that consumers crave social audio interactions and that there’s plenty of room for innovation in the space. Open Source. The platforms. Bootstrapped.

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Twitter Link Roundup #235 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The Myth of Venture Capital | Re/code by Jon Oringer – crowdspring.co/1tNFeV7. How to Use Social Media to Drive Traffic for B2B Companies – crowdspring.co/1nPz9An.

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How Actionable Insights Can Help You Optimize Your Website

Duct Tape Marketing

And describes himself as generally intrigued by advancements in software, cloud infrastructure, and engineering. Nils is an open-source aficionado. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! SEMrush helps with SEO, PPC, social media, content marketing and market research. Like this show?

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How To Save Money In Business: 10 Tips For Young Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

You can find free software on the internet that does almost the same thing as your subscription-based software. Review if you need the extra perks of the costlier alternative, and see if you can make do with the cheaper one. The internet has a ton of open-source software and other free services you can use for your business.