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4 Definitive Ways To Deal With Outages

YoungUpstarts

Even a minute of downtime means millions lost in revenue and tons of bad PR. In what is arguably the most massive security breach in history, hackers stole credit card and personal information from 77 million PlayStation users in mid-April 2011. Sony – Nothing like a heartfelt executive apology.

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Cracking The Code: SaaS Multiples: Recovery or Bubble?

Cracking the Code

Wednesday, February 23, 2011. It would have been easy to explain the difference by changes in the 2010/2011 revenue growth projections but unfortunately that is not the case. Note: high CAC ratio means high productiviy (see blog post for definition). ▼ 2011. (2). SaaS Multiples: Recovery or Bubble? What happened?

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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

Gust

Given that 2011 is already behind us, I’d like to take a brief time-out from the usual legal and financial wonkery to wish you and your loved ones a Happy New Year. Designing and producing marketing and PR materials (copyright, trademark). Are there any rights the company risks losing if it does nothing to preserve them now?

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I’m no great scholar on bubbles – I have more interesting things to spend my time worrying about than the exact definition , but having been around a few I have at least given them intellectual consideration. In contrast, when the market is falling, by definition your investment is worth less THE DAY AFTER you have invested.

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Cracking The Code: In search of Europe's next tech stars.

Cracking the Code

Wednesday, August 03, 2011. Note: high CAC ratio means high productiviy (see blog post for definition). ▼ 2011. (2). Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. software.

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Twitter Link Roundup #66 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Ten Crowdsourcing Trends for 2011 – [link]. Ten Crowdsourcing Trends for 2011 – [link]. Good insight by @julien about how the definition of success has changed – [link]. Ten Crowdsourcing Trends for 2011 – [link]. Top 10 Blogs for Writers 2011- The Winners – [link]. – [link].

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How to analyze and leverage Google’s guest blogging warning

The Next Web

Fast forward to 2011. If so, you’re definitely on Google’s bad side. Not only will those visitors not convert in my website, but irrelevant links from guest posts are definitely going to be targeted in Google’s next update. Set your browser to “Private Browsing”, then Google for the following phrases: Yourname guest post.

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