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Why Some Startups Win

Steve Blank

I was having a second coffee with an ex student, now the head of a marketing inside a rapidly growing startup. But my favorite was when the public relations manager told me, “We’re here to summarize the data sheets and put them in press releases and then answer the phone in case the press calls.”. All good news.

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15 Entrepreneurs Discuss Why they Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

We decided to start something we felt would have the greatest positive impact on fellow business owners, an Agile Methodology consulting company. We quit our jobs, pooled our money, and set out to help companies implement Agile – a highly efficient, organized, and empowering way to run your business.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

It could be studying entrepreneurship in school or it could have been working with a government contractor or maybe someone had a sales job. Prior to starting my own public relations and marketing consultancy, I worked for one of the largest global advertising agencies as well as smaller boutique PR and advertising agencies.

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Twitter Link Roundup #35 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! PR for Startups – [link]. Understanding Salespeople at Startups – [link]. Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic – Pivoting the Business Model – [link]. Writer 2.0

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Twitter Link Roundup #35 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! PR for Startups – [link]. Understanding Salespeople at Startups – [link]. Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic – Pivoting the Business Model – [link]. Writer 2.0

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10 Things Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Politicians

crowdSPRING Blog

In short, small businesses and startups can draw many valuable lessons from politics, politicians, and political campaigns. Startups and small businesses can imitate these tactics to great effect, formally and informally. We write often about a focus on iteration and agility in startups. Politicians adjust.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

You become so steeped in tools and techniques that have absolutely no relevance outside of.NET that you are actually less valuable to a startup than had you just taken a long nap. Two things: If you ever want to work in a startup, avoid.NET. But what they do is very, very rarely startups. It does you no favors.

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