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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

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By definition, you read blogs. If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. People often ask me why I started blogging.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

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I made the point (not widely publicized) that OS4 is currently “breaking&# many applications that use ad networks that are not Apples (most notably AdMob, owned by Google). I sure hope that Apple is working with Google to make this work. Thus we see lots of movement from Google, Verizon, HTC, Dell, HP and others.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. If you came here via a direct link you might want to check out the more detailed full version on my blog, which is here. ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress.

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

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This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs. But the masses didn’t want to blog. The Past (1985-2002).

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. I don’t do advertising on my blog, but I thought it was worth mentioning Ryan in particular because he has an alternate model for doing a startup. Competitors: SmashWords , Google Books.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Starting a Blog as a Side Hustle

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Blogging can be a profitable side business. You can monetize your blog through affiliate marketing, sponsored posts, display ads, and selling digital and physical products. Some bloggers become so successful that they turn blogging into a full-time business. million per year from their blogs. What is a blog?

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

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They have a mobile app and I felt like it crashed too much for my liking. 4 times / 100 means if a customer uses your app frequently (say 10-20 times / day) then they are crashing nearly every day. of the people who click on Google paid links then your true cost to acquire is actually = $12 ($1.50 / 0.125). On measurement.

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