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Skyrocket Productivity with Xebec

Austin Startup

In order to balance the various responsibilities at home, at work, and personally, productivity is becoming increasingly essential. How can we boost our productivity, especially as it relates to time spent on computers? This study published by Fujitsu Siemens Computers discovered three monitors increased productivity up to 35.5%.

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16 PR Strategies Every Small Business Should Stop Using Right Now

Up and Running

PR can do wonders for your startup or small business, but not all strategies have proven to be effective. Below, 16 entrepreneurs from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) share the one PR strategy they think all startups and small businesses should stop using, and why. Over-the-Top Self-Promotion. Press Release Avalanches.

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Do Less. More.

Both Sides of the Table

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. But honestly 10 extra hours in the office each day we would be there is way more productive.

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How We Fooled Ourselves into Delaying Our Startup’s Launch

viniciusvacanti.com

Six painful months later, we finally put out the product. The bright side is that, 6 months later, when we iterated Yipit into a daily deal aggregator, we learned to ignore the excuses and released a prototype in 3 days that took off right away. In fact, many of those early users enjoyed seeing our product develop.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

I was recently talking with a startup company who wanted me to try their product. I’m a big believer in product stability & performance before adding too many features. Usually you have a catch-all bucket for “direct” or similar that often came through PR or word-of-mouth. Only one guy in the room knew – their tech lead.

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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

Gust

Later stage companies have some additional concerns: What favorable impact could IP have for PR, marketing and investor relations purposes, or as an attraction to potential acquirors? How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? Creating product mock-ups , wireframes, etc. Easier said than done!)

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Facebook Advertising / Marketing: Best Metrics, ROI, Business Value

Occam's Razor

Client posted a video of a soon to be released product on their Facebook brand page. The new product became the number one selling product in the company's history in that country. Even if there were millions of Likes on the post with the deeply emotional video about the new product. Gets more Likes. It was huge.

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