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6 ELEMENTS OF A STARTUP MARKETING PLAN

Original post by RocketWatcher Most startup marketing plans are useless static documents. A great startup marketing plan is a dynamic operational blueprint that drives everything marketing is doing. It won’t be a single document but rather a set of documents used to actively manage marketing projects as well as acting as the current record of inputs, assumptions, […]

Gold, silver, and bronze: the real winners of the Social Olympics

Original post by Christina Farr via VB This year’s Olympics earned the nickname “Socialympics.” It has inspired huge waves of tweets, brought down the reputation of old media giants, and earned athletes millions of new followers in weeks. Since the Beijing Olympics four years ago, the use of Facebook and Twitter has exploded. In 2008, there were […]

SoundCloud Teams Up With Adyen Payment Service

Original post by Nick Clayton via WSJ Berlin’s SoundCloud has been going through a period of rapid change and growth. The start-up, with its stated mission to “unmute” the Internet has revamped its services with what it calls “The Next SoundCloud” as well as last year receiving investment from leading tech VC companies Union Square Ventures […]

Are Junior Developers Best for Startups?

Are Junior Developers Best for Startups?

Original post by ITBusinessEDGE It sounded pretty cool when I wrote last November about startup Pikimal, which was taking really smart folks in other majors — philosophy, political science — and letting them learn Ruby on Rails on the job. In a post at OnStartups.com, Avi Flombaum, dean of The Flatiron School, argues that most startups don’t need to […]

‘Hotline Miami’ coming to PC via Steam, Get Games

Original post by Samit Sarkar via THE VERGE Hotline Miami, the top-down action game from indie developer Dennaton Games, will launch on PC on Steam, Get Games, and “other fine digital distribution platforms” later this year, publisher Devolver Digital announced today. A representative for the publisher added, “Plans for console versions are underway as well.” The game, which […]