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How to find that first big customer

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Freshman Salesman writes: I’ve read somewhere in your blog about how you had a very large organisation as the first customer for your software. How you convinced them to pay up when code review at that stage was nonexistent? The contract says you retain the IP and are allowed to sell a product like this to other companies.

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24 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Industries That Are Ripe For Disruption

Hearpreneur

We have a campaign to make consumers more aware of how their products are made, which will in turn dictate how producers are going to create these products. Supercritical CO2 is already the gold standard for the extraction industry,producing a high quality, organic end product that commands top dollar. Jon Thompson.

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53 Top Conversion Optimization Tools Reviewed by Experts

ConversionXL

Vlad Malik from www.goodui.org gave a review of A/B Tasty: Vlad Malik : “The things I like about ABTasty I like a lot. You can add a custom goal right in the code, and it automatically shows up on the report – you don’t need to create the goal first. The dashboard is just a plain list of tests on a white background.

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How Do You Know If Your Copy Is Any Good? (My 4 Step Process For Copy Testing)

ConversionXL

Would you like to know my review process for improving web copy for myself and clients? Use this review process to hit your prospect in the gut, nag them while they sleep, or experience moments of pure joy when entering their credit card number, because they already know the dramatic improvement you’re bringing to their lives.

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The Blockchain: Ending Data Hacks

View from Seed

In 2002, online commerce accounted for just 1.6% Code is permeable and we’ve dumped entirely too much of our sensitive data on the web for those platforms and institutions to keep safe and sound from bad actors. Those conversations generally centered on doubt and fear as to whether it was safe and/or reliable to buy stuff over the web.

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Does the Size of a VC Fund Matter?

Both Sides of the Table

Some wait 5-7 years but usually this is because it’s proving more difficult to raise a new fund due to market conditions or the lack of returns in their current fund. If the VC your talking to raised its last fund in 2002 then they likely don’t have much fire power for new investments. Why does vintage matter to you?

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Open Letter to a New Austinite

Austin Startup

I’m not talking about exploring a new city and feeling like you get to re-invent yourself simply by changing zip codes; everyone loves that. I’m living in my seventh zip code here already and I’ve lived in Austin while working at Domino’s Pizza making $7/hour and while working for a tech startup making nearly $200K a year.

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