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What is The Best Way to Explain Your Startup?

Both Sides of the Table

Between the US & Europe alone the video sector is worth around $500 billion. We simply can’t escape our history as hunters & gatherers sitting around a fire and explaining the world to our community. I don’t think it’s just a B2C marketing tool. Western countries watch > 5 hours of TV per day.

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

LeWeb , Europe's largest (and the world's second largest) Internet conference is held in Paris every December. PriceMinister, a site for C2C/B2C sales of new and used goods (at a fixed price) is the top e-commerce platform in France (recently surpassing eBay.fr and Amazon.fr). It has infiltrated the U.K.,

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How to Use Social Media for Market Research

ConversionXL

It’s also a rare source of candid consumer opinion: 80% of social media posts are about ourselves, and those opinions and beliefs—expressed individually and within a community—are not interrupted or biased by participation in a formal study or company-run focus group. Because it includes your most passionate fans.

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Transcript of Creating a Winning SEO Strategy

Duct Tape Marketing

John Jantsch: And he’s coming to us today from the little country of Genovia, somewhere in Eastern Europe. So for example, a B2B national company that sells say like software as opposed to a B2C local company that does I don’t know, basement waterproofing. So, Brian, thanks for joining me. John Jantsch: You missed the joke.

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How One Startup Combines Boston’s B2B Sense with the Valley’s Social Media Style

View from Seed

I inquired about why the building was so “hidden,” as this was surprising to me, but the answer made sense: A few months prior, a Facebook user in Europe had flown to Dublin, arrived at the office, and demanded that he be given access to his ex-girlfriend’s account because she had cut him off after the two broke up. Card games?)

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Short guide to sales and marketing for start-ups [Guest Post]

VC Cafe

Building on my experience of being part of a team that did exactly that for Dropbox in Europe, I will attempt to demystify the process and hopefully give a starting point, from which any founder can start building a distribution engine that creates happy customers. Online chat. Another way connect with customers is online chat.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Consumer Services (B2C). Journal Community. Journal Community. A community of WSJ readers interested in franchising news, trends and issues. Ran gold Resources Ltd. View All Search Results » Subscribe. América Latina. 中文-简体 (China). Deutschland. 日本 (Japan). Management.