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Episode 106: Implementing Profit First With Frank DeBenedetto and Ralph M. Rivera

Mike Michalowicz

Too add, by implementing Profit First, within the first two weeks of starting the business, the company took their first distribution check! My passion is building and marketing web products for niche audiences. In 1999 my wife Carol Lynn and I founded Rahvalor Interactive, a creative marketing services company. Our Guests.

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How 99Designs.com came to be

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

To this day they have auctioned off $55m worth of websites with 55% of website sales ending above it’s initial sales price. Even Perez Hilton blogged about Flippa because of its relationship to FaceSmash and Social Network. The main difference is that they were able to leverage their distribution channel.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

Let’s not let startups use this as an escape hatch to avoid customer development. Almost all Web startups are dominated by market risk. Even startups that are dominated by technical risk have the customer validation risk of finding positive ROI distribution in a large market. Back in 1999, it all ended very bad.

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

My firm, atCommunications, LLC—a Chicago-based Web development and digital marketing agency—is this year celebrating its 20th year in business! After several rejections, a friend told me that you could actually just start a blog. First, we built relationships with 10+ colleges, getting distribution rights to their students.