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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

But now, the defining movie of today’s twentysomethings is “The Social Network”. Then, for differentiation, it’s important to play to your strengths; take whatever expertise or characteristic which sets your university apart and establish yourself as the leaders in producing research and companies within that niche.

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The idea is only half the battle: Stop complaining about copycats

The Next Web

Virtually every major online venture that has done well has been replicated elsewhere in the world to cater to local markets, with copycats raking in revenues and leaving innovators fuming. If possible, look into developing a USP that differentiates you and makes your brand more desirable to consumers. The clones. Taking legal action.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M Partners With Indian Angel Network

ReadWriteStart

We also had Pritam Roy present Gomolo.in , a social network and online hangout for movie lovers. This is good news: A revenue model is always good to have early on to sustain a venture while the bigger scaling points are still being sorted out. Fragrochem. Stopwaitin.com.

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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

reidhoffman.org

Friendster’s valuation set the tone for the entire social networking space. we had no revenue. As a result, we knew that our pitch would need to steer into investors’ biggest concern: the lack of revenue. The graphic we chose emphasizes that it is a network of people. Investors see a lot of pitches.

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YouTube Marketing And Analytics: A Primer For Magnificent Success

Occam's Razor

YouTube Marketing and Analytics Framework for Success. According to Nielsen, YouTube reaches more US adults ages 18-34 than any cable network as of mid-2013. So, lots of content combined with an engaged audience (contributing and participating in consumption), driving great branding and real world revenue. YouTube is amazing.

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The Steve Jobs method

Startup Lessons Learned

Not even if its generating revenue. In the meantime, I hope some of you will find the lean startup a helpful framework. Discover whats in customers heads, and tackle problems where design is a differentiator. The only efforts a new product team should be expending are those that lead to validated learning about customers.

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A Content-Driven Framework for Personal Brand Building

ConversionXL

Foster your personal brand, and you’ll build perceived value, trustworthiness, credibility, and reliability—ingredients that contribute to audience building and revenue. It always won’t help you differentiate yourself (thus your brand), so your audience won’t know why they should listen to you instead of others. Building a blog.

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