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SXSW Startups: Fantag

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Fantag is based in Sacramento. Sacramento has a thriving startup ecosystem with the San Francisco Bay Area just an hour and half by car or train to reach investors and partners. Costs for startups are substantially less than in the Bay Area so our investment dollars have a longer runway. Tell us about the startup scene there.

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Principles For Low-Budget Marketing Strategies Every Startup Should Know

YoungUpstarts

The Chrysler’s ATL (Above the Line), “Eminem commercial” — that cost around 12 million $— is a perfect example of a well-focused, mass marketing campaign. Even placing a lemonade stand under the inclement sun of Sacramento at 2:00 pm, just after the finish line of a marathon, is understanding a target necessities, for example.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

She was president of the UJA in Sacramento – the United Jewish Appeal. Then she opened a bakery and a second bakery and then a restaurant – in Sacramento. By the way, this was still pre-Netscape, pre-Internet. So I joined this group called Network Solutions, we did computer networking, the predecessor to the internet.

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Here is Why Non-Obvious Startup Ideas Can Yield the Largest Results

Both Sides of the Table

It has become so synonymous with Internet companies that the French have invented a disdainful term including Amazon: “les GAFA,” which they refer to as Google-Apple-Facebook-Amazon to talk about American dominance of the Internet. It is a household name. Thus Amazon’s market cap is $200 billion.

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Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup

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If you’re in Sacramento, go to the Sacramento Ruby Meetup and go to the San Francisco Ruby Meetup as well. What will it cost to build your project? If your project is going to cost more, you need to go back to your concept and your wireframes and reduce the scope. How much will you need? But let me put it this way.