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Azione PR – It’s All About Taking Action

YoungUpstarts

Azione PR is a Los Angeles, California-based boutique public relations firm started by two enterprising and dynamic young women who despite their young ages already possess more than twenty years of experience in public relations and marketing in total. “It’s PR, not the ER, as they say.&#. Then she gets serious.

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SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent.

Steve Blank

We will accomplish this through demand-creation activities (advertising, PR, tradeshows, seminars, web sites, etc.), The same was true for PR. And the results weren’t the traditional PR metrics of number of articles or inches of ink. The Potrero benchmark strategy was one component of this creating end user demand through PR.)

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SuperMac War Story 5: Strategy versus Relentless Tactical.

Steve Blank

Finally, since no one would believe a set of benchmarks named after our company, we needed a façade of independence, so we named them after the street the company was headquartered on in Sunnyvale California – they became known as the Potrero Benchmarks. Now as VP of Marketing, I could have sat back and let my PR agency handle the press.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

Founded it as a California LLC but your potential VC wants a Delaware C-Corp? But as with consulting, PR, web design and even VC – it’s not just the firm it’s also the individual. He mostly covers Southern California. Anyone who does IP law in Southern California seems to use Knobbe Martens.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

Both Sides of the Table

They attended property management association meetings in Oregon outside of the technology echo chamber of California to get a sense for people’s daily problems. We then set out to build these features as quickly as we could. But they went one step further. They recorded many of their sessions on video.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

The Carson, California company employs about 800 people in its 4 Southern California plants. I was working full time for a company called Muttropolis and started consulting part time as Whitegate PR. Thanks to Dana Humphrey, Whitegate PR ! #17 Thanks to Robert Atallah, CedarLane Natural Foods ! Image Credit: Eagan Heath.

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A Startup’s First Steps: What’s In A Name?

Gust

This comes in handy for things like business press coverage, corporate PR, and ticker symbol if and when the company goes public. Most entrepreneurs focus on #3, and perhaps are also aware of the ability to search state business entity databases online (as with Delaware or California ).

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