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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

Both Sides of the Table

Last night I had the great privilege to interview Bill Gross , one of the Internet’s true pioneers. He took out an ad in the Yellow Pages (it was the early 80′s, pre Internet), which cost him $1,000 / month for a half-page ad. If it worked in the Yellow Pages, why not on the Internet? Overture was sold to Yahoo!

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11 Ways Virtual Offices Can Increase Your Productivity

YoungUpstarts

by Deanna Ayres, SEM Strategist and Community Outreach Supervisor at The Marketing Zen Group. Operating a virtual office and having a remote workforce can increase your organizations productivity exponentially. You can work from anywhere in the world as long as you have a computer and internet access. Flexibility.

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How To Choose Appropriate Online Software Tools To Be Used In Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

For instance, with live support software , you have to be sure that the operator would gain access to tools that reduce response times and that help in dealing with more customers in a shorter period of time. At the same time, wrong tools can make the entire business operation worse since morale and productivity can be hurt.

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Seven New and Unique Business Ideas for Budding Entrepreneurs

The Startup Magazine

Every American household owns digital devices, whether laptops, desktop computers, iOS operating systems, etc. With access to the internet a click away, the world has become a marketplace of unique startup ideas. Everyone can sell their services by using an internet connection; however, all are not experts in digital marketing.

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

Dont worry about selecting particularly good keywords, if youre new to SEM. SEM only gets at one segment of users, and for a brand new product, you presumably need some skill at marketing in general and adsense in particular to get any useful info. Just put in your credit card. Just load them all in and choose a low cost-per-click.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c.

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eCommerce: A VC Story [guest post]

VC Cafe

I genuinely believe that when it comes to internet investments, eCommerce is not only a VC story, but that it is the VC story. A company will decide what operations are best to keep in-house while outsourcing those that it can “afford” to. Here’s why …. The eComm-aissance.