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Marketing Sweat Equity: Getting Your Startup’s First Sales—Without Spending Money on Consultants and PR

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After all, sweat equity can make up for a trim marketing budget, but it would be hard to make up for cuts in product development and customer service without sacrificing customer experience. Start by searching on Google and asking your industry contacts for solid resources that cover how your industry works.

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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

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These days sales, marketing and PR people seem to grow on trees. How To Calculate Whether A Freelance Web Application Programmer Is Asking For Too Much Step 1: Use the Indeed.com Salary Tool to Search for Their Job Title By Salary Level. Another option is sweat equity.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

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I was manifesting this huge monolithic application in my head that would revolutionize the job search, I had even written some code at this point, and didn’t have any idea if actual businesses were willing to pay a dime for it. Too much PR, too early. Post-Mortem Title : My eHarmony for Hiring Failure. Company : Boompa.com.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

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I would assume most businesses are going to claim they should get VC funding in order to help their PR, even if no one at the company actually believes it. Pepperdine Business Press Room – Graziadio School PR [.] Google couldn’t become #1 search engine without VC money. This seems like a meaningless statistic.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

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Im a UX and front end designer bootstrapping my own products with pure sweat equity at night but always looking for someone else to partner with(engineer/programmer)to bring these ideas life. To everyone who has an idea search your contacts for technical people and spin your ideas and user stories with them. Insightful.