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Forbes Announces 2013 List Of Best Small Companies In America

YoungUpstarts

American business magazine Forbes has announced its list of “ The Best Small Companies in America “ for 2013, with Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc topping the rankings of 100 small businesses based on earnings growth, sales growth and return on equity in the past 12 months and over five years.

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Fundraising Debt And How To Avoid It

YoungUpstarts

Founders need seed capital to get their operations up and running, and to begin generating revenue. For first time entrepreneurs or new entrants in a market, most initial problems start with failing to meet revenue projections — when product roll out is delayed, for example, or when it takes longer than expected to get revenue traction.

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Acquire New Users by Adding Growth Hacking to your Marketing Strategy

ConversionXL

Airbnb and Dropbox are textbook examples of how growth hacking can transform a business from a niche offering into a household name and market leader. Once you’ve established your ideal customer, you can better focus your growth hacker marketing efforts to improve revenue and ROI. For you, it could be a big-name customer or investor.

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We crowdfunded $1.7 million for a new online news publication. This is our story so far.

The Next Web

I’m declaring De Correspondent the most interesting journalism start-up I have read about in 2013. Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) April 8, 2013. . I’m declaring De Correspondent the most interesting journalism start-up I have read about in 2013.” On April 8th this year, professor Jay Rosen tweeted: “That’s it.

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Brand Marketing vs. Product Marketing: What’s the Difference and Which Should You Invest In?

ConversionXL

Muun found a market need but failed to compete with bigger names that provided customers with authoritative content and resources. It partners with sales to close more revenue, informs product teams to deliver better products, and in some cases, co-owns demand generation activities with marketing teams.

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

Both Sides of the Table

My estimate is that the top 5 YouTube networks will do > $200 million net revenue in 2013 (after Google’s share). I had written about Mike before but hadn’t disclosed his name. Distribution costs have, too. This is classic “Innovator’s Dilemma” market conditions. ” It’s true.

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Twitter Link Roundup #162 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

A VC: MBA Mondays: Revenue Models – Subscriptions – [link]. 8 Major Mistakes Entrepreneurs Will Make In 2013 | Forbes – [link]. Creative Forecast: How Marketing Will Change In 2013 | Co.Create – [link]. Design Trends 2013 – Flat and Minimal | Abduzeedo – [link].