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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

mashable.com

There are also tons of tools for creating your own microsites, Facebook apps, social networks, blogs and more. Here, developers and dev shops are organized by vertical so you can find a shop that has expertise in the kind of app you want to build. Do a web search to find platform-specific tools.

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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

cdixon.org

Another benefit of talking freely, is that you may also find potential partners or future employees–other key components beyond investment money. But it’s probably wise to be more secretive in some vertical markets: [link]. link] Finance Geek » Mistakes that startups make. [.] link] Stan James. link] Nivi.

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What is Brand Identity and How To Create a Great One: A Complete Guide for Marketers and Businesses (2019)

crowdSPRING Blog

Your brand lives in everyday interactions your company has with its prospects and customers, including the images you share, the messages you post on your website, the content of your marketing materials, your presentations and booths at conferences, and your posts on social networks. Horizontal vs vertical vs diagonal lines.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Point Nine Capital uses 15Five for continuous employee feedback. Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. EquityZen , SharesPost , and ZenPrivEx , help employees and investors liquidate their positions in late-stage companies.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

declined Microsoft’s offer (summer 2000) to be the first enterprise software company with a.NET product (a Microsoft employee came back from a follow-up meeting with Allen and said “He reminds me of a lot of CEOs of companies that we’ve worked with… that have gone bankrupt.”). During this year they.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I sent notes to my clients, thanking them for their business, notes to my employees for all of their support over the years, and notes to HelloWorld directors, for their trust in purchasing my company. Tapping into my knowledge of and experience in automotive marketing, I identified a need to monetize social networks for businesses.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

Tweet View Comments Sarah Lacy Feb 19, 2010 Pepperdine has a new study out that attempts to shed some light on the clubby, shadowy world of private finance. Paglia, Pepperdiine’s Denney Academic Chair and Associate Professor of Finance. The cost of money is steep, and only works in certain verticals, of which software is NOT one.