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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – COO, VP of Business Development, Online Marketing Director

This is going to be BIG.

Our team dabbles in everything from S3 and EC2 cloud services to SIMD and assembly code. Knewton's Online Marketing Director is the key partner to the VP, Online Marketing and is responsible for helping the team drive customer acquisition and revenue growth through SEM (paid search), SEO, Affiliate Marketing, and Email.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 5: Customer Relationship Hypotheses

Steve Blank

Many of the students had heard phrases that fall under Customer Relationships before; “customer acquisition, SEO/SEM, public relations, Social Network, Advertising, Loyalty programs, cross-sell and up-sell” etc., cloud, ec2, Amazon Web Services, etc.). but now they were actually trying to implement it. (If

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The Last Lean Startup Bundle: 48 hours to claim $3,000,000 in prizes

Startup Lessons Learned

I chose Amazon Web Services to be our marquee reward, and not just for the obvious reason that so many of you are - right this very moment – already hosting on AWS EC2. This blog post is going to be long, and below you will see every last detail of every last tier of prizes.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Research, Web prototyping, Testing and Building Tools Lists of Tools from Others HBS Startup Tribe Tools List – from Tom Eisenmann at HBS PBworks startup tools List Startup Foundry tools list Small Business tools list Groups Lean Startup Circle – Google Group for startup advice Startup Weekend – Launch a Startup in 54 hours The Lean (..)

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

blog.expensify.com

I run / wrote a site that serves approx 500,000 page requests a day, 5-10 complex SQL queries a page, god knows how much SEO related intelligence, 100,000s of users, external network comms. Plus the tools used by startups to grow quickly (EC2 for example) are much cheaper for linux than for Windows. Just not a good fit for you.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Amazon EC2. SEO and Analytics Tutorials. SEO for Startups â?? SEO Digger â?? SEO and campaign management tool. SEO Keyword Analysis Tool. Jing Project. Screenflow Pixelmator. Snapz Pro X. SimpleCDN (commercial). CoralCDN (academic). Amazon CloudFront. Cloud Infrastructure. Google App Engine. Flexiscale.