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Who will win Tim Ferriss’s Business Competition? (and the need for a Z Combinator program)

Dec 8th, 2009
by Matt.
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Today Tim Ferriss and Shopify announced a $100k business competition.  They will award a $100,000 prize to a new company that has the highest two months of consecutive revenue within the next six months.  I immediately thought – can I predict the type of business that will win this competition?  Who will be the entrepreneur [...]

No one cares about your stupid little startup – 5 tips to make them care

Dec 3rd, 2009
by Matt.
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This post is adapted from a talk I gave at Sutherland Gold’s PR Bootcamp in October 2009.
The title of this post “No one cares about your stupid little startup” was a message I learned in the earliest days of Xobni during a phone call with SiteAdvisor and Hunch founder Chris Dixon.   To this day, [...]