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Why Public Relations Should Be Part Of Your Business Plan

YoungUpstarts

Maximizing your PR efforts involves defining, controlling, and distributing relevant messages in the form of a press release to your target media outlets, as well as your intended audience and business partners. A heartfelt message or story can spread good cheer and go viral. Announcement of a new acquisition or merger.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

There is, indeed, a competition between angel investors and venture capital firms, which can only be an advantage for entrepreneurs who are thus stimulated to choose wisely their future business partners. Nearly all have abandoned hope in the "sure thing" and are stepping into what has traditionally been the Angel role of incubating startups.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

There is, indeed, a competition between angel investors and venture capital firms, which can only be an advantage for entrepreneurs who are thus stimulated to choose wisely their future business partners. Nearly all have abandoned hope in the "sure thing" and are stepping into what has traditionally been the Angel role of incubating startups.

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Exploiting Silicon Valley For Profit (and Maybe Fun)

Diego Basch

A quantum leap in virality technology.” When a partner at GiganticTree Ventures asks them how they plan to reach sales of 100M/year, they have all the right answers. So Frank Merger from GooBook starts talking to ZombiePlatypus. My company is to GooBook what the telegraph was to horses. The quarterly report must look good.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

He also had backing from well-known venture capital investors like Union Square Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Google Ventures, and even Richard Branson. Dropbox made a great file-sharing product, for instance, but it was their viral marketing campaign that allowed them to cheaply acquire millions of customers. Of course not.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

There was a backlash against the Plaxo spamming yet it paved the way for everybody who came after them to get users to drive viral adoption and we’d throw up our arms and say, “oh boy, here goes another social network that my friends are going to spam me about&# mentality that made it acceptable for everybody who came afterward.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

Eric Ries : I appreciate you saying that, and we should certainly reserve a moment to say thank you to all of the spouses and supportive partners that have made possible so much of this relief work that we have been talking about in this series of conversations. I was not trying to make money out of this, and it was all about the message.