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LinkLog: A Sales Framework for Start-Ups

Salesmanship is central to the success of any young company Start-ups face many challenges, and entrepreneurs must wear many hats during the process of launching a company. It’s no surprise that they often postpone selling (or otherwise engaging with customers)

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Can Rhyme Enhance Reason?

Daniel Pink thinks so. About Rhyming Pitch: Rhymes boost what linguists and cognitive scientists call “processing fluency,” the ease with our minds slice, dice, and make sense of stimuli. Rhymes taste great and go down easily and we equate that smoothness with

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Posted in Books, startups, Stories, Your Company Pitch, Your Product Pitch

LinkLog: When Do You Ponder a Change?

I really liked this post from Dharmesh - Failure Is Not The Worst Outcome, Mediocrity Is, especially this para. How do you know whether you’re stuck in a quagmire? Isn’t startup success often about persistence and focus? What if that break-out success is just around

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Posted in Opportunities, startups

Enemy of Good Thinking – Confusion

The big enemy of good thinking is confusion. Unfortunately, the more active the mind, the greater the risk of confusion From Edward De Bono in “Six Frames – For Thinking About Information” Notes and quotes from the Chapter – Introduction:

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Steve Blank on New Markets

I have been thoroughly enjoying Steve Blank’s How to Build a Startup  - The Lean LaunchPad Course on Udacity. One of the segments I was watching today was a talk on New Markets (one of the Market Types). Here are a few

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Why You Should Participate In Startup Weekend, In50hrs and Other Such Events?

This post is triggered by a poll Vijayanand in the In50hrs Facebook Group. I am not going to answer the Incentive part of Vijay’s question. There are lots of good comments. In my opinion, here is why you should participate.

Posted in Experiments, Prototypes, startups, Starup Ecosystem, Your Product Pitch

Product Conclave – One of the Most Exciting Events for Product Entrepreneurs

One of the most exciting product events in India starts next week. It is called Product Conclave and there, you will find one of the best gathering of product entrepreneurs and product ecosystem supporters. If you have already registered and

Posted in Product Conclave (India), Products, startups

It is Amazing What You Can Do In Less Than 50 Hours

In50hrs should really be called Under 50 hours It is amazing to see what can be done in 50 hours or less. I was at the final presentations and was impressed by the type of projects, the quality of prototypes

Posted in Ideas, MVP (minimum viable product), Prototypes, startups, Starup Ecosystem

Do You Believe That Developers Prefer Work to Being Idle?

Some times, a blog is not paragraphs of text. It is just one beautiful idea or a philosophy, you resonate with. When you see something this good, you want to share it and know what others think. Great thoughts by

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Three Marketing Tools You Can Use

I mostly deal with startups and small and medium enterprises. No matter who you are, you can always use some help in marketing. So what are some of the marketing tools and services out there that are either free or

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Posted in Software, startups, Tools
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