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How To Pull Customers To Your Website With Real Value

Startup Professionals Musings

A more effective approach in today’s Internet and interactive culture is to use “pull” technology to bring customers and clients to your story. Skip the Flash videos. If you’re going to err, use them too much rather than too little, except for a Flash front-end and popups. Sprinkle graphics and pictures.

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App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

Both Sides of the Table

They were going to bring the Internet to your mobile phones ushering in the era of “m-commerce.&# Gag. Enter Flash, which gave us a multimedia development environment. The web browsers are as immature as the Internet browsers were in the late 90’s. Absolute Power Corrupts, Absolutely. To an extent.

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

Internet scale. The first company represents a normal software company that sells its products directly (either via sales staff or directly off of the internet). ” I saw this first hand with the growth of the “flash sale” category. In many Internet startups 80% of the operating costs will be people.

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Future of TV: The Quick Version

Both Sides of the Table

I’m still planning to write some in depth pieces on the topic but I thought, “given that this is about how video will consume the Internet over the next 5 years, what better way to exemplify this than with a 10-minute video.” The Internet changes all of that. I recently gave a talk about the Future of Television.

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7 Modern Day Business Strategies For Long-Term Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

Even if your business is purely local, growth must always be a priority, and you need to utilize all these digital channels available to you today, as well as traditional media channels and industry forums: Maintain an active current presence on the Internet. Use them to find your relevant influencers.

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5 Phases Of Every Startup That Regulate Your Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Big company powerhouses, like IBM and Xerox, took fifty years to make the cycle, but new companies today, in the age of the Internet, often make the cycle in five to ten years, or even less. Consider MySpace and Webvan. Thus it behooves every entrepreneur to start watching these things more carefully from the very start.

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6 Effective Website Design Strategies That Directly Impacts Your Business

YoungUpstarts

Make your site easily accessible on any screen.

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