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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Is it pay-to-play? Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Is your integration limited to login and “like” buttons or are you building a presence within the social networks themselves? Discount support? Free-trials? Often this ties to marketing support.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Is it pay-to-play? Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Is your integration limited to login and “like” buttons or are you building a presence within the social networks themselves? Discount support? Free-trials? Often this ties to marketing support.

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5 Ways To Sample The Joy Of An Entrepreneur Lifestyle

Startup Professionals Musings

In all cases, it pays to play to your strengths, and stick to business domains and skills you already know. Networking with investors will tell you what they are looking for in ideas and pitches, and get you introduced to the right people before you are desperately looking for money.

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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

Both Sides of the Table

Jason Calacanis started this initiative in response to the pay-to-play network of angel events that he despised. I attended the inaugural Open Angel Forum in Los Angeles back in January and wrote about it here. I’m a huge supporter of his initiative to help end this practice.

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Developing a Social Media Marketing Strategy that Builds Loyalty and Awareness

ConversionXL

Regardless of which way social media networks move the goalposts, if you base your marketing strategy on relationships and communication, you’re well-positioned to get noticed and grow a loyal following. Each profile should also be consistent with the social network. However, it’s important to pay and play wisely.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain The Future Trends They See in Their Industry

Hearpreneur

Additionally, I have a lot of conviction that influencer marketing is going to play a huge role for consumer brands, but that it won’t look or feel quite like what you think of when you think of influencer marketing today. This has expanded international payment networks significantly during this season. Thanks to Eric Wu, Gainful !

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Open Angel Forum and The Amazing Disappearing Funding Gap in New York City

This is going to be BIG.

First Growth Venture Network formed to mentor high potential seed and early stage companies. Well, remember the dust up a while back with the backlash against “pay to play” pitch events where startups had to pay to meet angels? About a year and a half ago, I wrote that New York needed more dedicated early stage capital.