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Guerilla Marketing, Brad Feld Style

InfoChachkie

Instead of focusing on marketing as an activity… integrate it into (your) products.”. If you look at many of the companies we invest in, sure they have traditional marketing activities, but most of their growth and momentum comes from delighting their users. “…companies should… focus on building amazing products.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 5. Outsourcing

Frank Addante

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? ► October (1) New Video! .

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

But the thing I am most proud of about Rob is that he has taken a company with a uniquely talented founder & CTO – Nick Halstead – and managed to build a very tight working relationship with Nick where we drive world-class product development without having the usual founder / CEO conflicts. Email updates frequently.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: So, you need to develop a product?

Frank Addante

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? So, you need to develop a product?

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Ten Components of Startup Valuation For Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage blogs and other resources, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. Early customers and contracts in progress add value. Every customer contract and relationship needs to be monetized, even ones still in negotiation.

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How to Save MySpace

Jason Nazar

The user generated content on MySpace is user profiles, updates, blogs and pictures. Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is an amazing service that that enables the exchange of micro payments for any variety of activity. MySpace’s active users on average have less discretionary income than Facebook’s active users. .

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 3. Virtual Location, Location, Location

Frank Addante

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? ► October (1) New Video! .