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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

Gust

In the 2000s, the company might rent space at a colocation facility; buy, install, provision and maintain its own servers, storage and networking equipment (as we did at MySpace , putting several new servers online per day ) ; and enter into a series of contracts for ever-changing amounts of bandwidth.

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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

reidhoffman.org

This gave me an idea: I could help many more entrepreneurs by making the deck available not just to the Greylock network of entrepreneurs, but to everyone. Friendster’s valuation set the tone for the entire social networking space. The graphic we chose emphasizes that it is a network of people. Why is it valuable?

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How “Tag Management” Can Improve Site Performance

ConversionXL

It’s also common for a tag manager to use a Content Delivery Network (CDN), meaning that you don’t have to rely on a single server to respond to get tags to work correctly; instead of one server, the CDN will identify the most optimal server to pull your tags from, and the fastest server(s) will be the one to load your tags.

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Finding Your Voice And Using It To Make Ridiculously Good Content

Duct Tape Marketing

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Startup Marketing: The Nine Levels of Traffic Quality

Software By Rob

Having done little advertising on the other PPC networks I would assume they would fall in with #8. NO mention of JV’s either although it could be said that is point 3. #10 10 Rob on 02.09.10 at 2:28 pm >Very interesting post, no. 9 gives way to other PPC >SE’s like Bing and Yahoo? But it’s just a guess. >Also Good point.

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How Hashtags Can Supercharge Small Business Marketing

YoungUpstarts

But to use hashtags effectively, you must do more than just plug them into your tweets on Twitter or posts on Instagram, Facebook or another social network. When a person adds a hashtag to their post, that hashtag is indexed by social networks and the content becomes more easily searchable and discoverable by others.

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500 Founders: Rick Kiessig, Hannah Hunt, Matthew Jackson & Jenni Matheson

NZ Entrepreneur

” “ Before you have a product, a company or product name, a domain name, business cards, a logo – even before you have a company. Grow reciprocal relationships in your support network before you need them. Rick Kiessig – Cofounder. Talk to your potential customers as soon as you can.”

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