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6 Lessons Most Entrepreneurs Only Learn On The Street

Startup Professionals Musings

Intellectual property is required for a competitive edge. With information overload due to the Internet, you need to find your customers, rather than assume they will find you. That first burst of customers via word-of-mouth or a viral video won’t sustain your growth. Survival requires regular updates.

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8 Key Startup Drivers Bring Pleasure As Well As Sweat

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, never forget those ongoing perspiration items that seem to haunt you every day: Create intellectual property. Word of mouth advertising and viral marketing cost big bucks these days so budget for it. Some say the Internet is a metaphor for our brains. Marketing is top priority. Both are networks.

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Most Entrepreneurs Need to be Inspired to Perspire

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, never forget those ongoing perspiration items that seem to haunt you every day: Create intellectual property. Word of mouth advertising and viral marketing cost big bucks these days so budget for it. Some say the Internet is a metaphor for our brains. Marketing is top priority. Both are networks.

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Inspiration Without Perspiration is a Dull Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, never forget those ongoing perspiration items that seem to haunt you every day: Create intellectual property. Word of mouth advertising and viral marketing cost big bucks these days so budget for it. Some say the Internet is a metaphor for our brains. Marketing is top priority. Both are networks.

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Success is More Inspiration and Less Perspiration

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, never forget those ongoing perspiration items that seem to haunt you every day: Create intellectual property. Word of mouth advertising and viral marketing cost big bucks these days so budget for it. Some say the Internet is a metaphor for our brains. Marketing is top priority. Both are networks.

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Online Dating Sites Seem Easy But Usually Fail

Startup Professionals Musings

Online Dating Magazine estimates that there are more than 2,500 online dating services on the Internet in the USA with 2-3 new services opening every single day. So sites have to invest heavily in viral marketing to achieve critical mass, which competes with current social networks, while users expect to join both for free.

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

David Teten

Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing. . The self-assessment methodology, pioneered by Village Capital, is called VIRAL, for “Venture Investment Readiness and Awareness Levels.” . Other VCs use Contently * or Social Native * to create relevant content.