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How to Be a Startup Marketing Warrior By Josh Kopelman

Josh Kopelman writes some extremely effective and highly useful blog posts. This one happens to be about what startup marketing really means. I’m planning a series of venture capital interviews in the near future, I’d be flattered if Josh was one of the participants in that series.

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TECH cocktail Chicago 7

TECH cocktail Chicago 7

No other words are necessary, you should know the drill by now. RSVP now.

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Matt McCall on Ray Kurzweil’s Accelerating Investment Returns and Black Swans

Matt McCall writes about his talk last Thursday at Ignite Chicago on the issues of Black Swan and on Ray Kurzweil’s theme of accelerating returns. The Powerpoint of Matt McCall’s speech is here. Quick points: – a Black Swan is 1) a rare event, 2) with high impact, 3) that is hard to predict (pattern [...]

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Michael Arrington’s Entrepreneur Post

Michael Arrington talked about entrepreneurs the second time around today. I think he should segment that audience further into dot com era and other era projects. Generally speaking, experience counts for something. So you’d expect entrepreneurs who’ve been through the ups and downs of a tech startup to have an advantage over the newcomers. Or [...]

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SES Chicago 2007 – Driving Local Sales with Internet Yellow Pages and Search

Moderator: Charles Laughlin, SVP & Program Director, The Kelsey Group Marketing Speakers: Bruce Crair, President and Chief Operating Officer, Local.com Scott Finholm, VP of Local Advertising Services, Marchex Justin Sanger, Founder & President, LocalLaunch! Tobias Dengel, Senior Vice President, Business Development, Website Pros, Inc. Charles Knight from Alternative Search Engines also blogged this session Websitepros, [...]

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SES Chicago 2007: Seth Godin Talks about Meatball Sundae

Seth’s talk was a more refined version of the teleconference he gave last month. I blogged that here. Three questions I want put out to the blogosphere for discussion are: Should organizations be smaller like tree trunks instead of the traditional pyramids? How can this change take place if most leaders don’t know it’s necessary [...]

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The Future of Voice Broadcast and Voice Messaging

At the DMA conference a few weeks back, I met Dinesh Ravishanker. He runs a unique, effective voice broadcast offering called Callfire that allows micro-targeted opt-in outbound phone calls. It’s unique, user friendly and efficient in the demos he showed me. He was alot of fun to speak to and recently sent me the executive [...]

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Web 2.0 was NEVER a Business Strategy

You saw the craze. People built up Web 2.0. It’s frequently a term that people used to avoid business principles and focus entirely on technology without any end goal. I have always disdain it. Many folks surprisingly jumped in with funding for some of these ideas, likely more due to existing dot bomb relationships that [...]

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