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If you build it, they won't come, unless.

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Great," I always exclaim, sharing the thrill of modern software development, "so how will people find out about this brilliant website?". Except the "strategy" is a tirade of drivel I've heard so many times I can lip-sync as the words spew out the founder's mouth: "We're going to A/B-test AdWords campaigns until we discover our hook.".

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[Singapore] Local Telco StarHub To Launch Crowdfunding Platform Crowdtivate

YoungUpstarts

After an idea or project is accepted, Crowdtivate provides mentorship to create good campaigns, with options for support in business incubation and regional outreach.

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Why “saving money” and “ROI” are probably the wrong way to sell your product

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Code Collaborator is tool which helps software developers review each other’s work, just like an editor of a book. So the economics are obvious: If two developers would each normally spend an average of 30 minutes on a code review, once a day, that’s 20 hours of total time in a business-month. And we did.

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[Interview] Jim Ewel, Author Of ‘The Six Disciplines of Agile Marketing: Proven Practices For More Effective Marketing And Better Business Results’

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Agile marketing takes its inspiration from Agile software development, which is how 90% of companies develop software today. Many marketing groups focus on how many marketing campaigns they can run, how many marketing emails they can send out, or how much marketing content they can generate.

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Lessons Learned: Why My Kickstarter Campaign Failed

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While an online campaign may seem like an easy way to dig up grassroots funding, it’s not as easy as just setting up a site and collecting money. Ryan Ausanka-Crues, the CEO of Palomino Labs, talks about what went wrong with his Kickstarter campaign. Ryan Ausanka-Crues had one of those “lackluster” campaigns.

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[INTERVIEW] North Aware Founder And Creator Of The Smart Parka, Jamil Khan

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Kahn had a better idea – several, in fact – that led to the Smart Parka, the first product of North Aware that launched in 2016 with the help of a highly successful Kickstarter campaign. His concept captured the imagination of enough people that North Aware’s Kickstarter campaign raised an astonishing $2.6

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What’s FinTech, And What Does It Mean For Your Business?

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That was basically the message of most advertising campaigns of FinTech companies back then. If you’re passionate about a business idea, develop a product’s prototype; come up with a catchy description for it, explain clearly its benefits and launch a Kickstarter campaign. using your phone, in terms of minutes?”

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