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Sustainable Strategies for Internet Startup Success

Startup Professionals Musings

The cost of entry is so low – you can create a web site for almost nothing - and you are on your way to riches with ecommerce, your latest invention, or personal services. But the low cost also means that your competition will also be there in force. Beware of no-cost and low-cost marketing. Do them all.

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7 Strategies For Beating The Failure Odds Online

Startup Professionals Musings

The cost of entry is so low – you can create a web site for almost nothing - and you are on your way to riches with e-commerce, your latest invention, or personal services. But the low cost also means that your competition will also be there in force. Beware of no-cost and low-cost marketing. Do them all.

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How Top Venture Capitalists Create (and Sometimes Destroy) Portfolio Company Value

David Teten

Prior to joining First Round in early 2006, Mr. Fralic was VP of Business Development at social bookmarking and tagging company del.icio.us acquisition. Cost: $15/Members of HBS Angels of NY and/or HBS Club of NY; $40/Non-members & Guests. through the Yahoo! Includes buffet dinner. Sponsor: Cooley LLP.

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How to Use Press Releases to Create a Steady Social SEO PR Downpour

Duct Tape Marketing

There was a day when the press release did a lot of the work in generating actual media coverage for a firm announcing a new product, acquisition, award or some other newsworthy milestone. As you might guess, you get more options when you pay, but you can still get some coverage from free and low cost options. Yan Arief via Flickr CC.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

I use Hootsuite to coordinate my social media activity, which consists of Teten.com, PEVCTech.com , Linkedin , AngelList , and (passively) Twitter and Facebook. I use Diigo , a social bookmarking tool, to keep a record of useful websites. Capital has built a free online tool for founders to calculate their cost of capital.

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How To Add 25,000 Members To Your Forum – A Case Study

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

After making the acquisition, he immediately went to work to grow the forum and had some pretty amazing success, more than doubling the membership base. The Something store prizes made the members really excited because although they only cost $10, they were random gifts that could range from a simple pen to an ipod.

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Expenses You Don't Think of When Starting a Business

Software By Rob

The comments here and on a few social bookmarking sites mentioned that you could quit your day job if you wanted to, and that you could live on $2500/month just fine in many cities in the world (although in my hypothetical situation I was speaking about a developer based in the hypothetical U.S.). Costs range from $300-$1000 per year.