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Guerilla Marketing, Brad Feld Style

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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. Write Your Own Playbook. Brad Feld, Managing Director, Foundry Group.

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How To Become a VC

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All you need do to become an Angel is identify a promising venture and write a check. Thus, the total number of active VC professionals is actually smaller than the aggregate number of professional baseball athletes. I define a "VC" as, "a professional investor who deploys third-party funds into relatively early-stage companies."

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

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. - 500 Hats , July 30, 2010 Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 Customer Development Checklist for My Web Startup – Part 1 - Ash Maurya , February 16, 2010 How-to learn about angel/vc term sheets - Gabriel Weinberg , June 28, 2010 Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups (..)

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I We have a theme we call Protocol, which are technology protocols and markets built around technology protocols like SMTP for email and RSS. Or, as always, summary notes available below. Is that when it became big? was starting.

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Using Social Media To Deal With Customer Trolls

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Still, passengers were able to complete nearly every activity scheduled. The next time you encounter a negative online comment about your startup from a disgruntled customer, resist the very natural temptation to write a hurried, angry reply. Yes, Tige included a smiley face in his response. . Channeling Tige. Share and Enjoy.

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Ask the Career Expert: “Why Do I Need a Mentor?”

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Because more than just a job, a career partially dictates the types of people with whom you will associate, the way you will dress, your vacation durations and destinations, your extracurricular interests and activities – your whole life. If you decide that this career is in fact your ideal, then your mentor, in a way, has already vetted you.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. As I write these words I’m aware that I could practically change the words AOL and Facebook for much of this section and with a few factual tweaks it might not be noticeable to the reader which of the firms I was talking about. cheap accessible digital hardware].