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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

PR/Marketing. For startups, PR firms are a waste of money. Better to do personal outreach to blogs/local media. Start a blog. The best early PR is a product that people actually love plus a genuine story to tell from the founder. Once you have scale, you can think about building your own sales force.

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How I Got the Monkey Off My Back – Today Was a Good Day

Both Sides of the Table

I become a venture capitalist in September 2007 – exactly 6.5 “Ok, so this guy can write a blog and source deals but can he make any money?” years ago. I spent my first year developing proprietary deal flow and learning the business and then the Sept 2008 / Lehman Bros collapse / financial meltdown happened.

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3 Cost-Saving Tips for Your Business Website

The Startup Magazine

Weebly : Since its inception in 2007, Weebly has remained popular as website builder with small businesses. In addition, Weebly offers SEO functionality, email marketing services, blogging capabilities, and eCommerce services. Now we all know that blogs are the best options to keep your flow of content fresh , always.

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4 Definitive Ways To Deal With Outages

YoungUpstarts

Back in 2007-08, I remember when not a week went by without Twitter going down. Even a minute of downtime means millions lost in revenue and tons of bad PR. Buffer – Live blog the post-mortem. It was probably the first time I saw a ‘downtime, sorry’ blog post without an F-bomb in the comments section.

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Cracking The Code: Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007

Cracking the Code

Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. Note: high CAC ratio means high productiviy (see blog post for definition). Blog Archive. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. ► 2007. (10). Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. Thursday, December 28, 2006. Started on Jan.

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Do Less. More.

Both Sides of the Table

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard.

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How to Model Your Marketing Against the Product Lifecycle

ConversionXL

If you know… * Who the people are, you know how to get to them (the blogs they read, the sites they visit, the stuff they search in Google, etc.); * How they describe the type of services you offer, you can word the copy on your site to match the conversation in their head (very important!) Slow skimming. Take Netflix.

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