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Startup Location Is Still A Critical Success Factor

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. On the other hand, if you are into solar technologies, there is probably an advantage to being in Phoenix or a similar location.

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How To Find The Best City For Your Type Of Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. On the other hand, if you are into solar technologies, there is probably an advantage to being in Phoenix or a similar location.

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Why Every Company Needs A DevOps Team Now

Feld Thoughts

A year or so ago I read an early draft of a new book titled The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win. You can get the whole story in my book, The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win ). This means that technical debt starts to increase.

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Startups Need the Eight P’s for Successful Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

The value proposition is a short statement that clearly communicates the target customer, the customer’s problem and the pain that it causes, the unique solution that addresses this problem, and the net benefit of this solution (value derived versus relative cost) from the customer's perspective. Proposition.

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Smart Bear Live 7: More from AZ Disruptors

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

You can subscribe to Smart Bear Live on iTunes (please review the podcast as well!) … and if you’d like to appear on a future episode of Smart Bear Live, send an email to Patrick.Foley@microsoft.com to schedule a recording with Jason. In this episode, we share three more interviews from our AZ Disruptors meeting last fall.

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7 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Use Video To Grow Their New Business

Duct Tape Marketing

It cost roughly $4,500 to make and it was shot in a day at their actual factory warehouse. You can use this opportunity to showcase your product as well as share “visual reviews” with the world. Is your product tech? The CEO, Michael Dubin, wrote the script and had his good friend co-direct it.

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To my European comrades : 5 reasons why you should consider Austin to start with the American Dream

Austin Startup

If you’re into the tech industry, Austin is certainly the place to go now. The Silicon Hills is the name earned by the Austin metropolitan area over the past decade, due to Austin’s economic growth, the 2nd in the US in 2016 (and 1st according to this article ). Restaurant, bars, leisure and transportation cost are very affordable.

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