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The Cost Equation for a Startup is Better Than Ever

Startup Professionals Musings

Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies. New cost equations brought about by the Internet and social networking are causing a revolution, and a new age — the age of the entrepreneur — is dawning.

Cost 255
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You Don’t Need to be Rich to be an Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies. See my interview a while back with parallel entrepreneur Rich Christiansen , who has started 28 businesses with a target bootstrap investment of $5K each.

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The Cost Equation for a Startup is Better Than Ever

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Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM), like cohort analysis , yourself. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies. Sales and marketing costs. Print your own collateral and marketing materials until the business is rolling.

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Be Part of the Entrepreneurial Revolution

Startup Professionals Musings

Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies. See my interview a while back with parallel entrepreneur Rich Christiansen , who has started 28 businesses with a target bootstrap investment of $5K each.

Burn Rate 125
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How do I get my first few customers?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Marketing, advertising, positioning — they’re all forms of persuasive writing, just like an op-ed in the New York Times. click and competed with no other advertisers. I spent only hundreds of dollars a month and covered the entire spectrum of SEM. But that’s how you build a hobby, not a company.

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