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9 Mistakes You Can’t Afford to Make During Your First Year in Business

StartupNation

EquityNet RAISE CAPITAL Use flat-fee crowdfunding with no commissions. Consider using long-term financing options for major asset purchases rather than depleting your operating cash. Don’t be afraid to seek help, whether it’s hiring employees, outsourcing certain tasks, or seeking advice from mentors or consultants.

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

Both Sides of the Table

o Their strong skill was online media buying and optimization – they rarely would do CPA deals – mostly buying CPM. As internet crashed media became cheaper so they bought more and their tracking and analysis became really good so they did better. Mix it up with different agencies, people run out or creativity/contacts.

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Beams wants to turn collaborative audio clips into a social media biz

TechCrunch

Users on Beams are encouraged to join interest-based groups and (asynchronously) listen or clip into topic-based threads — on, well, whatever you want to talk about, be it art or politics, fashion, food or music etc etc… Topics on Beams are a real pick’n’mix — and the overall experience can feel pretty random.

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

Both Sides of the Table

In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. There were chat rooms, discussion groups, dating, classified ads – you name it.

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Simone Musgrave - Grit, Sales, and using Femininity in business.

Startup Grind

People were starting to buy and love Musgrave, and they wanted something more from us. A : Okay, and how do you mix that sense of urgency and patience, like how do you balance the two for the sanity and sake of your business? But I was at a point in my career where, they weren’t using me that much. And use your femininity.

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Runa Sandvik’s new startup Granitt secures at-risk people from hackers and nation states

TechCrunch

Sandvik told me about her work and her new bootstrapped startup, how leaders should prioritize their cybersecurity efforts, and, what piece of security advice she would give that every person should know. In May I gave a talk at Paranoia 2022 titled “How the Media Gets Hacked.” Runa Sandvik, founder of Granitt.

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Small Business Marketing Research Tools

American Entrepreneurship

Whether creating a marketing plan for an established business or as an evaluation of a potential acquisition, market research can be used to confirm a favorable trend for products and services. A company can establish its strategy using G oogle Trends. These research tools can be used across channels.