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“AirB&E” and Disaster Response for Consumer Startups

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Yet when it comes to risk management of user communities – content, community or commerce – failure to be looking around the curve ahead can result in pretty ugly crashes. As it gains traction, every social or consumer internet startup should pause at some point and take stock of risk and abuse issues, viewed as broadly as possible.

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5 Threats To Your Online Business Reputation

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With sales ticking over nicely, you take on more staff, and start developing a new line of products. Many are journalists or PR students looking for a more stable career. Your business is doing brilliantly. You’ve had a successful launch, with customers letting you know how pleased they are. Then suddenly, performance drops off.

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Common Growth Hacking Myths (and How Growth Actually Works)

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PR and publicity drive attention…to drive sales. On Sean’s GrowthHackers.com , categories include… So, essentially everything from customer development and onboarding to persuasion and social marketing fall under the umbrella of growth hacking. Conducted Customer Development. via TechCrunch).

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Beware The Consultant

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For instance, if a consultant proposes to help you with public relations, pay them a commission equivalent to the greater of a flat fee per story placed or a percentage of revenue generated from the PR coverage. Such positions include: PR, Sales, Product Development, Lead Generation, Strategic Planning, Fund Raising, etc.

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8 B2B Link-Building Strategies That Never Go Out of Style

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You don’t need to hire a developer to design your own calculator or quiz; there are plenty of tools, like SurveyAnyplace and LeadQuizzes , that let you create quizzes or surveys from scratch or customize ready-made templates. Creating linkable assets can be quite expensive, especially if it requires professional design and development.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. It’s the most modern platform for application development on the planet.

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