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Building A Tech Startup: Avoiding Silicon Valley Mishaps

YoungUpstarts

For example, companies are moving into the sphere of privacy-respecting AI in a bid to avoid coming fears and regulations relating to AI, machine learning and data harvesting. If everyone is oriented on technical skills and public relations are suffering, look to soft skills. Watch your fundraising.

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page. For example, consider public relations. – Aggregation, ranking, and discounts from service providers. Ethics Policy, Expenses policy).

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7 Reasons Press Releases Are Still Relevant

YoungUpstarts

You can do this by not only drafting a top-quality and interesting press release but also distributing it through a tool that uses multiple aggregators. It, therefore, becomes a powerful public relations tool and ensures that the business is not mistaken for certain issues or blamed wrongfully for damages.

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BigWebStats Provides Useful Overview On Site Statistics

YoungUpstarts

Here’s a useful resource for those in the fields of public relations, social media and online marketing – BigWebStats ( www.bigwebstats.com ) is provides detailed statistics on just about any website.

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Entrepreneurial Change We Can All Believe In

Growthink Blog

Hire a programmer here, a freelance public relations staffer there. But in their tens of hundreds of thousands aggregate, well, these are the decisions that are the making of a vibrant, prosperous, and dignified entrepreneurial society. Small decisions, little things.

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The 4 Critical Challenges of Tech Startup PR

ReadWriteStart

To have the correct image in technology means businesses must have a thorough understanding of the field of public relations (PR). Content aggregator app developer Timehop is an excellent example of this idea in action. Technology industry startups have to pay more attention to their image than most other companies do.

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Small Business and the Death of Newspapers

crowdSPRING Blog

There is a place for the wide open faucet of information that Twitter can supply, and there are times when the traditional outlets can not compete, For instance, in the case of breaking, fast-evolving events such as the Arab Spring uprisings the best place to get instant factoids is via the person-on-the-street accounts aggregated via hashtag.