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7 Modern Day Business Strategies For Long-Term Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

In these days of global competition via multiple channels, you need continuous marketing to find more customers. Trade shows and conferences can produce hundreds of new qualified leads for your business, as well as build relationships with industry leaders, outsourcing vendors, and potential partners. They won’t find you.

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Looking At Startups By The Rules Of Natural Selection

Startup Professionals Musings

The good news is that a recent Kauffman Early-Stage Entrepreneurship (KESE) Index shows the highest level of new business activity recorded in the last two decades, and the cost of entry at an all-time low. Every startup needs a sustainable competitive advantage. If you want to be feared.

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4 Laws Of Natural Selection Relate To Every Business

Startup Professionals Musings

The good news is that the latest Kauffman Early-Stage Entrepreneurship (KESE) Index shows the highest level of new business activity recorded in the last two decades, and the cost of entry at an all-time low. Every startup needs a sustainable competitive advantage. If you want to be feared.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 5. Outsourcing

Frank Addante

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? ► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush?

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Stealth Mode Is Bull$hit

InfoChachkie

Like the first-mover advantage, Stealth mode is a vestige of Silicon Valley''s past, when the cost to launch a company, including web-based businesses, required significant capital and customizedinfrastructure. 4) The intended targets are seldom fooled by covert activities. Four Reasons To Avoid Stealth Mode. I doubt it.

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Guerilla Marketing, Brad Feld Style

InfoChachkie

Rejecting the paint-by-numbers approach to corporate communications deployed by most marketing executives, Brad has embraced unconventional guerilla marketing tactics to help establish his venture capital firm, Foundry Group, as a thought leader in early-stage tech investing. companies should… focus on building amazing products. Just be you.

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Startups have about $1 trillion worth of reasons to love the Biden infrastructure plan

TechCrunch LA

“Committing to electrify 2 million American buildings, moving them entirely off of fossil fuels is exactly that — an investment in America leading theway towards creating a new industry creating American jobs that cannot be outsourced, and beginning to reduce the 30% of greenhouse gas emissiosn that come from buildings.”

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