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How to Use Frugal Innovation to Grow Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

For example, you might use guerilla marketing techniques to promote your product without spending much money on traditional advertising channels. Mobile banking in developing countries. As a startup, you probably don’t have much money to spend on marketing or product development.

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The Ultimate Guide for Starting and Running a Business at Home

Up and Running

Landline phone or mobile phone ( VoIP if you’re doing a lot of international business). Start doing guerilla marketing. Here’s a basic list of the things you will need to consider purchasing. Computer, laptop or tablet. Point of Sale system (if necessary). Credit card processor (if necessary). Business phone system.

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

ReadWriteStart

At today's session, first up, Ramkumar RS from Chennai, India, presented Mango DVM , an innovative solution to turn vendors of illegal, grey market music to legal distributors using a combination of mobile apps and media server technology. We discussed guerilla p.r., We brainstormed about the risks of those assumptions. 3gSimplified.

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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.

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Why You Should Embrace Opposing Views at Your Startup

Both Sides of the Table

But I do know that FourSquare has captured the zeitgeist of what young, mobile & social people want. What guerilla tactics do you want to use? Maybe check-ins will be automatic in the future some day or maybe people won’t care about check-ins. That plus great press & it’s working on some level. What’s not?

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Twitter Link Roundup #76 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

20 creative guerilla marketing campaigns – [link]. Top 6 Mistakes to Avoid in Mobile Usability – [link]. Small companies have been doing this for years – [link]. Excellent overview about Google changes targeting content farms and the impact on search – [link]. 33 Tips For Beginner Designers.

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Want To Survive The Coming Tech Tsunami? Overcome Your “Humanness”

YoungUpstarts

I have to remind myself that interactions with others are not guerilla warfare; nor are they tools to help me confirm what I already believe. So, Intuit employees created an app for mobile phones that provided farmers with daily prices from various markets. Maybe yours is the same way!) Get less rigid.