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6 Growth Challenges That Every Good Startup Will Face

Startup Professionals Musings

Scrappy guerilla marketing based on personal contacts and word-of-mouth campaigns gives way to more expensive customer acquisition using advertising, trade shows, and a marketing agency. In the early days, your product engineers could handle customer support. Customer acquisition gets harder and more expensive. Marty Zwilling.

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6 Reasons Your Hockey Stick Growth Curve Can Go Flat

Startup Professionals Musings

Scrappy guerilla marketing based on personal contacts and word-of-mouth campaigns gives way to more expensive customer acquisition using advertising, trade shows, and a marketing agency. In the early days, your product engineers could handle customer support. Customer acquisition gets harder and more expensive. Marty Zwilling.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Microsoft's $100K India Startup Challenge Grant

ReadWriteStart

We discussed guerilla p.r., She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Janardhan Swahar from Salem, India, presented Swayam Foods , a health food company that is focused on the Indian palette across snacks, quick-to-prepare items, etc. Discuss.

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Where LinkedIn Works for Me

SoCal CTO

When I recently was looking to find people who had experience with using social networks to reach people for what might be considered guerilla marketing efforts, again LinkedIn worked great. When I was looking for speakers for an event last fall on Web 2.0 , LinkedIn was a great way to reach out. in Computer Science.

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Is Your Business Ready For Curves In The Road Ahead?

Startup Professionals Musings

Scrappy guerilla marketing based on personal contacts and word-of-mouth campaigns gives way to more expensive customer acquisition using advertising, trade shows, and a marketing agency. In the early days, your product engineers could handle customer support. Customer acquisition gets harder and more expensive. Marty Zwilling.

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The Innovation State of the Union

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

She’s also a professor at the University of Cincinnati in their Engineering department. Steve Jobs once challenged Obama to find him 30,000 engineers so he could build a plant in California. Simply in 1970 the percentage of engineering graduates from US Universities was 5%. Engineers are aging. In 2010 it was 4%.(1)

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6 Growth Slowdowns That Can Quickly Lead To Disaster

Startup Professionals Musings

Scrappy guerilla marketing based on personal contacts and word-of-mouth campaigns gives way to more expensive customer acquisition using advertising, trade shows, and a marketing agency. In the early days, your product engineers could handle customer support. Customer acquisition gets harder and more expensive. Marty Zwilling.