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AUGUST 29, 2012

The following guest post is from Eric Gaydos, Buzz Marketing Manager at The Resumator , a SaaS applicant tracking system and hiring platform trusted by many of the fastest-growing companies in the world, including: Pinterest, Tumblr, Hootsuite, Klout, Posterous, Bitly, Atari and Mashable. Follow Eric on Twitter at [link]. Share and Enjoy.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

These courses all proved to be serious influences on turning the dream of starting their own company into a reality. On the first day of class, Professor Greathouse told his students, “Take a look around the class, these are the people you will most likely start a company with,” and boy was he right. Share and Enjoy.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Solution – In most failed ventures, the only asset of value upon dissolution is the company's underlying intellectual property (IP), as further discussed in Worthlesss IP. However, as a company's growth accelerates, the core team members are often handicapped by disparate locales. Share and Enjoy.

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JULY 25, 2012

RingRevenue's unique technology allows online and offline advertisers and publishers to consistently increase revenues from mobile, print, search and email campaigns by tracking the phone calls generated by such ads. Facebook is a big, smart company. The following guest post is from Molly Greathouse, a blogger for RingRevenue.

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AUGUST 8, 2012

The following guest post is from Laurie Barkman, Marketing Lead at The Resumator , a SaaS applicant tracking system and hiring platform trusted by many of the fastest-growing companies in the world, including: Pinterest, Tumblr, Hootsuite, Klout, Posterous, Bitly, Atari and Mashable. Follow Laurie on Twitter at [link]. Share and Enjoy.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Tool Users - Startups often have a long gestation period in which the team is in discovery mode, defining the company's value proposition, target market, pricing, business model, etc. I recall a lengthy Harvard case from my days at Wharton that explored a large company's convoluted decision process to move from wood to fiberglass skis.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

The following guest post is from Dan Monarko, Online Marketing Manager at The Resumator , a SaaS applicant tracking system and hiring platform trusted by many of the fastest-growing companies in the world, including: Pinterest, Tumblr, Hootsuite, Klout, Posterous, Bitly, Atari and Mashable. Go With Your Gut.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

The Company. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS. Hopefully this straightforward format will help you avoid overly obtuse verbiage, while keeping your executive summary to two pages. Opportunity. paper cut vs. bleeding artery)?

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AUGUST 22, 2012

He’s also collecting inspiration for the office space at Circa (his latest company). • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS. Sean Percival (hey, that’s me!). Yes, I put myself on my own list. I’m apparently that shameless.

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APRIL 13, 2011

RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I The value of Pitch Decks; Brad’s personal preferences on deal presentation; and Brad’s practice of accepting cold approaches via email. Very few people can do a good job with a presentation that is emailable.”. You have said outloud anyone can send you an email, is that fair?

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JUNE 18, 2012

Some first-time entrepreneurs mistakenly believe that they are not entrepreneurs because they have never invented anything nor have they come up with a novel idea upon which a company could be built. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS.

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JUNE 3, 2013

John Lusk, along with his Co-Author Kyle Harrison, leveraged their humble company''s newsletter into The MouseDriver Chronicles , a New York Times bestselling book. The company''s newsletter was initially created to share their entrepreneurial journey with their family and friends. an email) to about 35 people.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2012

If you are a startup seeking funding, convey your company's origins, your current status and your ideal exit. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS. What's Your Story? Stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end.

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APRIL 1, 2013

How did a small, open source software company from Finland capture billions in market share from Oracle? spread over three different companies (and) we brought it all together. Marten continues his story by describing the company's first major challenge. You must never let a big, fat American company do this to you.'

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JULY 18, 2012

Make It Work was an amazing company. With over 38,000 cult-like testimonials, one cannot dispute the company delivered a valuable service in a way like no other company has come close. In doing so, I will assume all of the personally guaranteed loans and lines granted to the company. We failed because we tried.

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JANUARY 2, 2013

Mark framed his comments around the culture he built at Citrix, which has been augmented (and complicated) by the significant number of acquisitions the company executed during the past decade. Most companies associate respect with hierarchy. A company culture is how a company gets things done. The Magic Formula.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2013

I did this twice in my career and it allowed me to assess the people, culture and veracity of the company's value proposition before I joined full time. Ostensibly, your purpose is to learn general information about the company, its culture, etc. Boss Reference - Your potential boss will check your references. Share and Enjoy.

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APRIL 29, 2013

How can you protect your company''s reputation when a rouge customer unjustly flames your startup? The respondent to the customer complaint was Tige Young, CEO and Owner of the Tui Tai Expeditions , cited by National Geographic as, "one of the best adventure travel companies on earth.". This pattern holds true for Tui Tai Expeditions.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Corporate Refugee without entrepreneurial experience, but has proven his leadership capabilities at a big company. With the Sales Guy, the venture capitalist might extrapolate that he will over-promise the company's capabilities and ultimately deliver a sub-standard product to market. Share and Enjoy.

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JANUARY 21, 2013

As an early executive at MySQL, he helped build the company into the world's most used open source database. MatchON Sports it was one of the biggest dot com companies in Finland and it went straight ( into) the wall and went bankrupt. Marten has enjoyed a celebrated entrepreneurial career. For Marten, self-deprecation comes naturally.

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JULY 23, 2012

companies should… focus on building amazing products. I recently spoke with Brad about his approach to guerilla marketing and how he instills eclectic marketing tactics in Foundry Group’s portfolio companies. Chris is the CEO of Gnip , a Foundry Group portfolio company. If you have $hitty products, the marketing is impossible.

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MAY 14, 2012

Along with GoToMyPC, companies like Netflix, Classmates and ZoneLabs were learning from each other. This latest wave in this transformation has been enabled by a number of sophisticated technology companies, including: Burstly , Coull , Collider Media , GraphEffect , SteelHouse , RingRevenue , GumGum , and DataPop. Share and Enjoy.

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AUGUST 20, 2012

Although this is a core competency that must be honed over time, there is a cadre of SaaS hiring tools that the world’s leading tech companies deploy to their advantage. The company launched its social media management system in 2008, growing to over 4 million users by the start of 2012. Job Syndication And Customized Job Boards.

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APRIL 11, 2011

I recently had the pleasure of spending an hour with Jon Steinberg, president of Buzzfeed , a company who focuses on helping media companies make their content go viral. I’ll write a post on how to give feedback to employees and then I’ll get emails from people telling me they forwarded it to their whole team.

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MARCH 18, 2013

In contrast, Hands-on Clueless Investors should be avoided, unless your company will imminently fail without their money and you have no other viable sources of cash. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS. Share and Enjoy.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2012

During Mark's tenure, Citrix has grown from 50 employees and few million dollars of revenue to a company 7,000 employees strong, generating revenue in excess of $2.4 • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS. Share and Enjoy.

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JULY 11, 2012

The following guest post is from Dan Monarko, Online Marketing Manager at The Resumator , a SaaS applicant tracking system and hiring platform trusted by many of the fastest-growing companies in the world, including: Pinterest, Tumblr, Hootsuite, Klout, Posterous, Bitly, Atari and Mashable. Commitment . It’s the root of real achievement.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. Does Facebook have a permanent dominance of the future given their 500m users? .&# They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0

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MAY 29, 2012

Industry veterans know each other and freely share information about up-and-coming products, companies and people. Be sure your company does not become the entrepreneurial equivalent of a great band that few people have heard. Small World – Every industry is small. Incremental success is the norm. Share and Enjoy.

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JUNE 11, 2012

Mark Zuckerberg – “The dynamic of managing people and being CEO in a company is a lot different than being college roommates with someone.”. Although it may be comfortable to start a company with your friends, it is a mistake, unless your friend(s) happens to be ideally suited to their role in your venture. Share and Enjoy.

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JANUARY 7, 2013

and tell them what he knew and what he thought his place should be in the company. How can we make this a better company, with people who may have different skills than some of us. I recently applied my own advice late last year because ValueClick (Commission Junction's parent company) acquired a company by the name of Dotomi.

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JULY 2, 2012

Give them conscribed assignments which compliment their talents, but minimize the degree to which they interact with the rest of the company. Although Temperamental Superstars will help your company achieve short-term victories, most startups do not have the time or energy necessary to keep them happy over the long run.

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DECEMBER 10, 2012

Although the exact sequence of events is a bit unclear, it appears that Hacker News user "lukethomas"(who is unaffiliated with Divshot) was prompted to create the Hacker News post after reading a tweet about the initiation of the company's private beta. Be Yourself - Represent yourself, not the company in your comments.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Intent : Investor / entrepreneur conflicts often arise when a company contemplates an exit opportunity. Consider the situation in which the entrepreneur wants to accept a financially life-changing offer to sell her company which is vetoed by the investor because the price does not meet its minimal investment return criteria.

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MAY 22, 2012

However, the greater degree you can sequentially follow these steps and maintain your discussions with each venture capitalist (VC) at relatively the same stage, the sooner you can spend less time in the company of investors and get back to running your business. Prep Steps. Yes, I am advising you to sandbag your prospective investors.

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JULY 9, 2013

Unlike seeking a position with a big company, you cannot simply scan Craigslist, shotgun your LinkedIn profile and do the interview dance. At Computer Motion (NASDAQ: RBOT, acquired by Intuitive Surgical), I helped negotiate the company’s new phone system, which saved over $35,000, before I was an employee. Share and Enjoy.

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MARCH 1, 2010

RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. And as a result we have bred a culture of companies that have been quite innovative on making money. company called Applied Semantics.

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