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Startup Life: Diary of a First Generation Entrepreneur

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11 pm Startup Life: Diary of a First Generation Entrepreneur Jump to Comments ‘Oh shit.’ In our mind, we knew that was just one of those days when we as drivers of the startup car were being tested. Daksh said: Startup Life: Diary of a First Generation Entrepreneur [link] [.] I know one thing.

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Monday Roundup: Success

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” Image: Julie Rybarczyk via Flickr, CC 2.0. Successful Startup Story: Fresh and Fluffy Natural Dry Dog Shampoo . Why: Startup life’s not easy, which is why we love to hear success stories. Here’s one from Dan Cohen , when he shared the successful startup story of Fresh and Fluffy right here on WUL.

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Monday Roundup: Lessons Learned

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Image: Steve Garfield via Flickr, CC 2.0. Digital Startups Are Teaching the Big Guys Some Lessons . Five Lessons From Building an Online and Offline Community. Why: Building a community is not an easy task. Given that we are now counting down to the end of the year (and then my birthday!), Based in the Washington, D.C.,

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Start-Up Marketing and Yourself: Don’t be a Swiss Army Knife

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Image: UOregon Conference Services via Flickr, CC 2.o. Like this: Image: Nisa yeh via Flickr, CC 2.0. A tip: pretend you have less than three days to launch your startup. Business Career Daniel Cohen Guest Posts Marketing Networking freelance standing out start-up marketing startups' Imagine you’re at a party.

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Monday Roundup: Buzz Marketing a la Spring

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Launch Day: Generating Initial Buzz for Your Startup. Why: “Generating buzz is vital for the success of a startup,” says Andrew Blackman as he explores how to make your startup “stand out from the crowd” in this post that has some classic, never-get-old, tips. What do you do to get your community buzzing?

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Is Our PR Community Part of the New Pittsburgh or the Old One?

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Creative Commons image from Flickr user Slackley. From startup incubators to entrepreneurs to civil activists, Pittsburgh is attracting a demographic I grew used to being surrounded by over the last 12 years in both Washington D.C. Where’s the PR, advertising, and marketing community in all of that? and Chicago.

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Enterprise 2.0 Conversations

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Conversations Jump to Comments Image by cambodia4kidsorg via Flickr Over the course of December, I have been closely following Jacob Morgan ‘s blog-posts on Social Media , emerging Enterprise 2.0 The focus of the blog has shifted from that of a startup-centric one when it originally started in 2007. 00 am Enterprise 2.0