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Sustainable Strategies for Internet Startup Success

Startup Professionals Musings

In addition, every business has operating costs, like customer acquisition, fulfillment, inventory, and customer service. Engage your audience with social media. Social media is more than the “Big 4” of Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Twitter. But the low cost also means that your competition will also be there in force.

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7 Strategies For Beating The Failure Odds Online

Startup Professionals Musings

In addition, every business has operating costs, like customer acquisition, fulfillment, inventory, and customer service. Engage your audience with social media. Social media is more than the “Big 4” of Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Twitter. But the low cost also means that your competition will also be there in force.

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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. through the Yahoo!

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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. Make sure that all of your press releases contain ways for people to connect and share in the most common social networks and social bookmarking sites.

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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. Leslie implemented a clever growth strategy for his online business by purchasing a large forum. We would give them feedback and they would move on to the next lessons.

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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. I have also configured IFTTT to share on Twitter anything new I post on Diigo. .

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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.).