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Entrepreneurship News Roundup: Week of 3/22/2010

Posted by: Thom Ruhe on March 26, 2010 Source: e360 Blog

For Small Businesses, social media has made great strides and has become one of the most critical of online trends.  Small Businesses have leveraged media trends, specifically Twitter to obtain customer feedback and in turn become a direct conduit to their customers with news and information regarding their product.

A startup with a strong foundation and solid operating plan might not fit with the Venture Capitalists thesis. Venture Capitalists pass on many opportunities, as a startup it’s important to not take it personally.

Get an inside look at the startup Audiolife and the entrepreneurs who started it, Brandon Hance.  Audiolife is focused on provided e-commerce tools to musicians.

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Re: Entrepreneurship News Roundup Week of 3222010
July 31, 2010 @ 12:00 AM
Heather said...
Entrepreneurship, like most things that are worthwhile in life are full of rejection and failure. That's the price you pay to do something big I suppose. Following the VC path is more of a dream than a reality for most entrepreneurs.

Seth Godin wrote about this. I think he said how much time is wasted chasing down investors when you could simply offer friends and family a percentage of every sale you make in return for an small investment.

Heather
Re: Entrepreneurship News Roundup Week of 3222010
July 31, 2010 @ 12:00 AM
David Forer said...
I think we need to have more ready sources of money available for start ups. Instead of giving tax breaks that cost billions why not take that money and put it in a fund and allow some of the investor groups to access it. Our federal government could do more along these lines then what they are doing now. Maybe have some oversight and qualifications but they would spark new jobs more than tax breaks for small business.

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