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How Not To Run Your Own Technology Startup

YoungUpstarts

Salesforce.com – Sales lead and sales pipeline management. WordPress – Corporate website, blogging. Captricity – We use our own service to capture leads off paper sign-up forms set out at conferences. Marketing and Communications. YouTube / Vimeo – Demos of our software or website.

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22 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Companies They Admire Most For Innovation

Hearpreneur

Shopify swiftly came in with solutions that allowed these firms to turn their point-of-sale terminals into e-commerce storefronts and begin online operations the same day. because of how they're disrupting application development across all sectors. They add new options to the lineup without creating way too many options.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community – August 2012

Rob Go

VentureFizz: Good newsletter with funding announcements, best local blog posts, and other local tech happenings. Entrepreneurial Development Firms. Thoughtbot - Web application development and design. See his innovation economy blog and follow him on Twitter. Fred Destin – Atlas ( blog , @fdestin ).

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Excerpt From "Do More Faster" by David Cohen and Brad Feld

ReadWriteStart

They have fewer employees, which means there are typically fewer people focused on things like marketing, sales, and product development. Oneforty rallied a community of thousands of Twitter application developers in just a few months. Initially, most startups have less money than their competitors.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Dedicated To Steve Jobs, Reinforcing Mission To Restructure Capitalism

ReadWriteStart

Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. Happy Grasshopper.

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Monetizing Your Platform Strategically – Go Beyond The Book

YoungUpstarts

Many authors write a book and simply expect the sales of the book to propel them towards riches and financial success. Step 2 – Determine where they “hang out” both online and offline — what blogs are they reading? Develop New Tools, Utilities and Applications. It’s selling books that is the problem.

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APPNATION SF 2011 was fun

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

On the second day of APPNATION SF, I took it more easy and attended 3 sessions – 1) Intel AppUp Application Development Lab, 2) Monetization Strategies, and 3) Free, Freemium, or Paid? Some people whom I met: Android game developers. Sales from a major tech blog. Congratulations to them. Ringtone company.