From the category archives:
We all forget too easily: the best startup funding is sales. Sure, angel investment, friends and family, SBA loans, all of those options are necessary for most startups. But sales is better.
If you can, find the early customers. Give them a deal, make them important, work with them to optimize their needs; but make a [...]
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Do you like my headline here, on this post? Can you write a better one?
Headlines are critical. I’ve noted that, with some frustration (I’m not so good at headlines) on this blog before, here.
Headlines come up today because being in New York last week to judge the Forbes.com business plan contest gave me a chance [...]
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I’ve been a reader of Paul Kedrosky for several years now, so it was a privilege to listen to his 3.5 reasons for optimism last Friday at the Bend Venture Conference in Bend, Oregon. Paul posts at Infectious Greed and appears often in the media.
I admit its sorely tempting, but, after reflection (and some drafts), [...]
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Accents, real speech, figures of speech, colorful speech. Expressions. The way we use language fascinates me. I wonder if technology changes it?
I have questions:
Why is groovy so hideously and embarrassingly obsolete, but cool is still cool? Am I the only one who still likes Paul Simon’s song, Feelin’ Groovy?
Why does just sayin work so well, especially [...]
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How do you react to this quote? This is Mark Shaeffer about social media experts, in this post. I quoted him in my post here yesterday:
How many have ever had a real sales job or have been actually accountable for delivering new value in a marketplace by creating, testing and distributing a product on a [...]
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I’m a bit off my normal thought patterns today, waking up in a generic freeway-exit hotel in the California Central Valley, headed for Yosemite National Park with my youngest daughter.
Yosemite means a lot to me. My dad took my brothers and me there many times when we were growing up in the San Francisco [...]
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Blog names and titles: do you agree that some are better than others? Lots of blogs have succeeded with titles that are merely descriptive, not remarkable: Seth’s blog, Small Business Technology, Escape from Cubicle Nation, and many others.
Browsing around the other day, I discovered a Jay White who calls his blog “Dumb Little Man.” [...]
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