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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. Social media activities require professional effort and time, so beware the hidden costs. Engage your audience with social media. Mashable claims there are 150,000 new web sites created per day.

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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. Social media activities require professional effort and time, so beware the hidden costs. Engage your audience with social media. Mashable claims there are 150,000 new web sites created per day.

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

David Teten

Christopher Fralic is a Managing Partner at First Round Capital’s New York office, and has focused on a number of the firm’s investments in Advertising Technology, Social Media, Ecommerce, Gaming, Mobile and more. Fralic was VP of Business Development at social bookmarking and tagging company del.icio.us acquisition.

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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. Yan Arief via Flickr CC. Use your Twitter, Google+.

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

David Teten

“We’re using … TinyLetter for our “Content Newsletter” … and Buffer to schedule social media posts. Point Nine Capital uses Mention for media monitoring. I use Hootsuite to coordinate my social media activity, which consists of Teten.com, PEVCTech.com , Linkedin , AngelList , and (passively) Twitter and Facebook.