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5 myths about the marketplace that mobile strategies busted

The Next Web

Communities are incredibly hard to create and curate so they cannot simply be bolted on. A marketplace is not often a natural hangout, and relies on a barrage of emails, offers and marketing campaigns to get you to remember to go back to check out the site or app. Myth #4: It’s all about the technology, not the service.

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The Austinpreneur’s Guide to SXSW 2018 Panels & Parties

Austin Startup

It’s stocked with free food, drinks and wifi but the real reason you want to be there is because we’ve curated all of the top entrepreneurs, investors, and innovators at SXSW and invited them to stop by. Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising.

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UGC Strategies to Boost Your Brand

Women Entrepreneurs Can

John Doerr of Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist’s calls it the “next wave of the web.” The following Pamper’s “ Love, Sleep, and Play ” campaign included curated UGC videos from real moms of their babies. You can also run hashtag campaigns on social media, like on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. The lesson was learned over 30 years in Silicon Valley: you create ecosystems where third-parties can innovate and thrive and you become the legitimate center of it all and can tax the system later. My view is if they were based in Silicon Valley they would be hot, hot, hot.

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Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster

Up and Running

This article is part of our Business Planning Guide —a curated list of our articles that will help you with the planning process! Or, make sure that you get the kind of funding that’s needed for large marketing and PR campaigns. Both Silicon Valley startups and Main Street small businesses need to know how they are doing.

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The Ascent of Q&A as Community

Venture Chronicles

Search is often Q&A but Q&A is not well suited for search and in an attempt to differentiate from Google several search engines, Bing most significantly, have invested heavily in advertising campaigns that highlights the shortcomings of search for answering questions.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

I have 2 options: set up a new startup or share my idea with google (or maybe another big silicon valley’s company). Curate great links for your ideal customers and share them 3 times per day. How can we attract attention from investors and press in silicon valley without moving there? What/How should I do?