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Where LinkedIn Works for Me

SoCal CTO

When I recently was looking to find people who had experience with using social networks to reach people for what might be considered guerilla marketing efforts, again LinkedIn worked great. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. in Computer Science.

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Why You Should Embrace Opposing Views at Your Startup

Both Sides of the Table

I use technology precisely to try and develop an intuitive feel about what will work and what won’t” The management team got it. What guerilla tactics do you want to use? To ignore FourSquare would be dumb. The VCs snickered a bit. I was unconvincing, I guess. What’s fair game? What’s not? Never be dismissive.

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How to Use Frugal Innovation to Grow Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

For example, you might use guerilla marketing techniques to promote your product without spending much money on traditional advertising channels. However, the impact of this frugal technology has been immense. As a startup, you probably don’t have much money to spend on marketing or product development. The Renault Logan.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Microsoft's $100K India Startup Challenge Grant

ReadWriteStart

At today's session, first up, Ramkumar RS from Chennai, India, presented Mango DVM , an innovative solution to turn vendors of illegal, grey market music to legal distributors using a combination of mobile apps and media server technology. We discussed guerilla p.r., We brainstormed about the risks of those assumptions. 3gSimplified.

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An Outsider’s Perspective Can Drive Innovation

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Pick the items from this list: new infrastructure, massive investment, unfamiliar marketing approaches, development of new technology, dealing with upset people — sometimes all the above. Breakthrough’s require all sorts of things. Yes, this is hard work. And, making these efforts is where the gold is to be found.

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Ideas Aren’t Innovation

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Guerilla Innovation Chapter Six. I’ll touch on them later in Guerilla Innovation (this online book) but, this book is primarily about innovation — that component of a business where value is created. Ideas Aren’t Innovation. And creation is an awful lot about ideas.

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Twitter Link Roundup #76 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

20 creative guerilla marketing campaigns – [link]. Small companies have been doing this for years – [link]. Excellent overview about Google changes targeting content farms and the impact on search – [link]. Top 6 Mistakes to Avoid in Mobile Usability – [link]. 33 Tips For Beginner Designers.