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Why Your Marketing Campaign Sucks

Both Sides of the Table

.” Here’s what I mean … Let’s start with what it takes for a journalist to want to write a story. Do I have an “angle” from which to write the story (first company to do X, company does biggest X, consumer behavior is doing X)? One of the masters of this in the startup technology world is Flurry.

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10 Top Reasons For First-time Entrepreneur Failure

Startup Professionals Musings

They count on learning from their mistakes, and use the experience to move to the next idea. The discipline of writing down a plan is the best way to make sure you actually understand how to transform your idea into a business. Idea has limited business opportunity. Not every good idea is a good business.

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DreamSwapp | Remember Your Dream & Achieve It

Tech Zulu Event

You get awesome media coverage and have become celebrities overnight. DreamSwapp is an Android-based mobile application to help users record their dreams and share dreams with friends using social media. Our team was founded in May 2012 and we released our app on October 8 th , Chicago, IL. When was it launched and where?

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Timing and why we’re all VCs

TechCrunch LA

Start writing down predictions about people, companies, and markets. We get at least a dozen at the TC offices every week, which is why we write about books so often around here these days. You allow us to get off the ad-laden media churn conveyor belt and spend quality time on amazing ideas, people, and companies.

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Identifying Pain in the First Step in a Sales Process – Here’s How

Both Sides of the Table

Take for example the years 2010-2012 where every brand out there seemed to be buying Facebook “Likes.” ” In truth many companies had no idea why they actually needed Facebook Likes but there was still a pain point. Write down the customer pains so you’ll have them for later. It’s just human nature.

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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

Both Sides of the Table

Tracy built her company, Recycled Media , out of necessity. The idea came from having been recently married herself and seeing how expensive it can be to buy a new wedding dress. Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs. She hasn’t raised any venture capital.

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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

socalTECH

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). 2011 was an incredibly huge year for us, and 2012 will be the same way.