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How To Build a Web Startup – Lean LaunchPad Edition

Steve Blank

You can install Apache or Nginx with virtual hosting, and run several sites plus other various tools of your choice (assuming you have the technical skills of course) like a MySQL database. Here’s what we found (Customer Discovery during the week). Here’s what we’re going to do (for next week).

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Email Marketing As A Pillar For Enterprise Sales

YoungUpstarts

There is practically no other distribution channel that drives engagement and builds customer relations better than email marketing. This can be done by making sure that the subject of the email is spam-free and by keeping your contact database up to date at all times. With more than 2.5 billion users, this list is virtually endless.

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[Review] The Social Customer

YoungUpstarts

It covers community management, listening on social channels, mining of one’s customer database, establishment of a social CRM team, and the invoking of either macro responses (automated activities like birthday coupons) or micro responses (manual interventions like organising a press briefing).

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Cybersecurity Advice for Startups

The Startup Magazine

Still, when you’re suddenly cut out from your database or important files, it’s difficult to get back on track. Since people may use unsafe channels and personal devices to access the company’s network it’s crucial that they understand the risks. Backups can seem redundant until something bad happens.

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8 Business Trends That Will Make Waves In 2019

YoungUpstarts

In a workplace, you might encounter management policies aiming to digitize and store everything in a database. Moreover, files and data will be condensed to databases that can be accessible by users within the network. Moreover, files and data will be condensed to databases that can be accessible by users within the network.

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DataRails Hires David Rosenberg as New VP of Customer Success

The Startup Magazine

As part of our growth plan, we’ve realized a need to create new business channels and expand existing ones,” Gurfinkel said in a statement. DataRails allows companies to manage their data in Excel, operating as a front end to a cloud database , which makes it far more agile and easier to create accurate models.

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6 Reasons Why Startup Prototypes Attract Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

You need to find vendors who can deliver in less cost and time than competitors, and build distribution and support channels. After the market and product have been validated, the real challenge comes. A prototype is the three-dimensional version of your vision.

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