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Sustainable Strategies for Internet Startup Success

Startup Professionals Musings

It seems like everyone has an Internet startup these days. Without a sustainable strategy, these challenges lead to the terrifying statistic that nine out of ten online businesses will fail, and lead to the current ratio of Internet failures to millionaires being thousands to one. You have to be found and favored by search engines.

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7 Strategies For Beating The Failure Odds Online

Startup Professionals Musings

It seems like everyone has an Internet startup these days. Without a sustainable strategy, these challenges lead to the terrifying statistic that nine out of ten online businesses will fail, and lead to the current ratio of Internet failures to millionaires being thousands to one. You have to be found and favored by search engines.

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How Top Venture Capitalists Create (and Sometimes Destroy) Portfolio Company Value

David Teten

Christopher Fralic is a Managing Partner at First Round Capital’s New York office, and has focused on a number of the firm’s investments in Advertising Technology, Social Media, Ecommerce, Gaming, Mobile and more. through the Yahoo! You can reach Mr. Kalghatgi at nikhil@softbank.com and @nikhilkal.

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5 Trends That Will Shape Small Business in 2012

Duct Tape Marketing

A growing number of people simply see the Internet as Facebook (and Facebook is OK with that). Other marketplaces such as Amazon, Etsy, Buy.com and eBay are moving toward socializing your product search and becoming decision engines. Apps inside social networks provide answers. Customer service goes community.

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How and Why I Still Use Delicious

Duct Tape Marketing

I still use Delicious every day to bookmark and automatically publish content to the web via RSS and I think you should too. At the root, Delicious is a social bookmarking site, which means you can use it to find and bookmark and tag stuff all over the web. But, that’s not really what this post is about. Custom filtering.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing. . We’re using … TinyLetter for our “Content Newsletter” … and Buffer to schedule social media posts. I use Diigo , a social bookmarking tool, to keep a record of useful websites. 7) Negotiate .