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Avoid startup failure – Don’t make these 7 mistakes

The Next Web

Through my years of involvement in the startup community, I’ve encountered a variety of pitfalls and mistakes including negative partnerships, overbuilt products, and poor marketing tactics. The importance of standing out often leads startups to lose focus and overbuild on their product. Say you create a golfing product.

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Are You Ready to Work from Home?

The Startup Magazine

So, if you live in Anchorage, you could find a line of credit option through CreditFresh in Alaska and see whether you’re eligible to apply. They think that getting up from their desk will distract them from their tasks and ruin their productivity, but the opposite is true. It will be accessible in your location.

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Twitter Link Roundup #69 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

and Product Placement in Movies – [link]. Snowboarding Alaska’s backcountry from 7.7 Celebrities in Advertising Are Almost Always a Big Waste of Money – [link]. Crowdsourcing Examples in Business – [link]. One-way, outbound, non-conversational messages still work – [link]. Reeses Pieces, E.T. Phenomenal.

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Exploring The Everyday: Better Meat For a Better Future

View from Seed

The need for an alternative to our current meat production is becoming more apparent with each passing day. My hypothesis is that these price increases will continue because we’ve effectively reached the limits of what we can do with technology for meat and fish production, which is now more than 50 years old.

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Strategy Roundtable: 5 Cloud Computing Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

Jim Dunlap, CIO of Alaska Telecom discussed with me the increasingly serious problem that telecom vendors are facing due to bandwidth consumption skyrocketing. In fact, using their expertise, they have also successfully productized various connectors and adapters to build unique value. Sequoia has financed them.

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Twitter Link Roundup #115 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

The image above is taken in Takotna, Alaska during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on March 9, 2011. The ideal product manager – [link]. The ideal product manager – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week! The green in the sky is the aurora borealis.

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2013’s Top 10 Small Towns For Mobile Entrepreneurs

Mike Michalowicz

Wasilla, Alaska. Most famous for being headquarters for the Iditarod Sled-dog race, Wasilla is also the home of Alaska’s most visible celebrity, former 2008 Vice-Presidential hopeful and governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin. Wasilla, Alaska is actually more business oriented than most people (including me) realize.

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