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10 Overused Startup Buzzwords
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 - 1:34pm | 1541If your company "pivots" to "disrupt" an industry, you need a new strategy. Oh sure, you might have heard that Company X made a billion dollars by doing that. But when the lingo of a few billionaires becomes the lingo of thousands of entrepreneurs, the overused words begin to lose their meaning...
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Is This the Next Instagram?
Thursday, May 3, 2012 - 2:16pm | 483Its user base more than doubled in the last 12 hours. The company has grown so fast that its co-founder and CEO, Patrick Ambron, had to update his final press release before sending it to Benzinga. "You'll see that we have now more than TRIPLED our user base, with no signs of slowing down,"...
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Is Your Google Reputation Ruined?
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - 1:47pm | 575If you haven't searched for yourself on Google lately, you might want to take a look. But brace yourself: you might not like what you see. The Internet is a wild and crazy place, and in addition to the slimy things you'll find on any day-to-day search, you may also find that your Internet...
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Four Things Every Entrepreneur Should Do
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 1:19pm | 701“You see a lot of people thinking they have an idea and can just outsource the development. It won't work that way.” That's the advice of Patrick Ambron, Co-Founder and CEO of BrandYourself, a website that helps people control their own Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) search results. As a 24-year-old...
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How Does a 24-Year-Old Raise $1.25 Million for a Startup?
Friday, March 9, 2012 - 11:51am | 890“At one point, we walked away from over $750K,” said BrandYourself Co-Founder and CEO Patrick Ambron. “On any terms we wanted, essentially.” But Ambron still walked away. “It was a huge part of our round, and I didn't have a back-up plan solidified, but we walked away,” Ambron told Benzinga. “I...