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Sustainable Strategies for Internet Startup Success

Startup Professionals Musings

It seems like everyone has an Internet startup these days. So what are the key strategies that can improve the success odds for your online startup? Engage your audience with social media. Social media is more than the “Big 4” of Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Do them all.

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Top Startup Blogs, All Traffic Does Not Convert the Same, Time Tracking Without Timers, and more…

Software By Rob

Top Startup Blogs – A real-time blog ranking tool by Dharmesh Shah based on his blog grader. I must have made a wrong-turn at some point because I think I’m the only blogger in the top 20 who isn’t a millionaire.

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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. So what are the key strategies that can improve the success odds for your online startup? Engage your audience with social media. Social media is more than the “Big 4” of Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Do them all.

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An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack: In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers

David Teten

I use this social bookmarking tool to keep a record of useful websites. Examples: free support for your startup from the Fortune 500 ; free money for your impact startup. Note that according to Dave Kerpen, Chairman, Likeable , you can increase your reach by posting organically to each platform (i.e.,

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Copywrong Again: Founding the Next Pinterest or Napster?

Gust

As I wrote in Part I of this post , many of the most creative and disruptive startup businesses in recent years have involved the use of intellectual property in innovative, non-traditional ways that defy easy categorization and stretch the boundaries of concepts such as the fair use doctrine in copyright.

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Understanding the Types of Social Media

Business Plan Blog

Social BookmarkingSocial bookmarking sites allow you to bookmark and share your favorite websites with an entire community. Be sure to provide your customers with social media outlets to share their positive experiences with your company, product or service. Comments comments Powered by Facebook Comments.

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

David Teten

Prior to joining First Round in early 2006, Mr. Fralic was VP of Business Development at social bookmarking and tagging company del.icio.us Michael Yavonditte is CEO of Hashable, a New York startup backed by ff Venture Capital and a number of other leading VCs. through the Yahoo! acquisition.

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