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Test Your Aptitude for Business Internet Jargon

Startup Professionals Musings

Search engine marketing (SEM). No SEM plan means you are missing a huge marketing opportunity. Wikis are used to create collaborative websites on a given subject, maintain corporate intranets, and build simple data bases. Facebook alone has 800 million active members. Do you have a business presence there? Viral marketing.

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Internet Business Lingo Quiz for Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Search engine marketing (SEM). No SEM plan means you are missing a huge marketing opportunity. Wikis are used to create collaborative websites on a given subject, maintain corporate intranets, and build simple data bases. Facebook alone has 500 million members. Do you have a business presence there? Streaming video.

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Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 13, 2008 SEM on five dollars a day How do you build a new product with constant customer feedback while simultaneously staying under the radar? SEM is a simple idea. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Bring your questions.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups. .

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. For example, its always nice to have someone constantly optimizing your SEM accounts, driving down your CPA. But its not really viral growth, even when its exponential.

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The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Steve Blank

Start your blog/wiki/journal. Update your blog/wiki/journal. Update your blog/wiki/journal. Actually engage in “search engine marketing” (SEM)spend $20 as a team to test customer acquisition cost. Update your blog/wiki/journal. Everyone: Update your blog/wiki/journal. each of the hypotheses.

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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. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers.

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