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Can An Elephant Jump Over The Moon? Yes... as every Startup Knows

Can An Elephant Jump Over The Moon? Yes... as every Startup Knows | Startup Revolution | Scoop.it

Every Startup Is An Elephant High Jumper
Every startup entrepreneur reading this knows what I'm talking about. Everyday team Curagami (http://www.curagami.com) tries to make the graceful dancing and jumping elephants we see so well in our mind, dreams and brainstorms.

We rub the bottle hoping for I Dream of Jeanie.

We know ODDS and OBSTRUCTION are against us. In the boring world of limited possibilities elephants don't dance. In our world elephants sit at the table and worry about their hair before a night of Disco Inferno.

It is not that our dreams are unrealistic. All dreams are unrealistic. No, the real challenge is in turning the crank ONE MORE TIME. When we rode bicycles from Durham to Santa Monica there were days when that single thought was all we (really me since the rest of the team was 20 years younger lol) could think about.

Turn the crank one more time.

Don't give up. Never give up because you can ONLY discover what it looks like to see NO MORE ROAD by continuing to turn the crank. And on that day, the day when you see nothing but ocean, you will have achieved something NO ONE can take from you ever - the knowledge that YES Elephants can jump of the moon as every startup knows.

Here's hoping YOUR startup elephant is a jumper :).

Marty & Team Curagami,
American Tobacco Campus, Durham, NC



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CrowdFunde Name Change Poll: VOTE NOW VIA @CrowdFunde

CrowdFunde Name Change Poll: VOTE NOW VIA @CrowdFunde | Startup Revolution | Scoop.it

Startup Life
The startup life is one of equal parts hard work and serendipity. As we began to build, think about and share the tool we saw in December it morphed and moved on by. Below the poll is an explanation about why we got to the point where a name change is needed:

http://www.crowdfunde.com/marketing/crowdfunde-name-change-poll/

Hope you will VOTE, SHARE and COMMENT as we search for a name relevant to the opportunity we see


Thanks, Marty, Phil & CrowdFunde (or whatever we become :) Team

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How Netflix + Roku Are Changing Content Curation & Content Marketing

How Netflix + Roku Are Changing Content Curation & Content Marketing | Startup Revolution | Scoop.it
How Netflix + Roku Is Changing Content Curation In Competitors Beware Ways.
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:

As we are proving with our startup http://www.curagami.com content marketing is HOT for #startups. Hot because as budgets increase tools are needed to help publishers and merchants. Here are just a few areas of opportunity:

* Content curation tools to help bring content in, shape it and publish it back out.
* BI Tools to know what is working and why.
* BI Tools that help see into the octopus of attribution.

* Customer experience tools - using personas and archetypes to increase relevance & that helps generate social shares and customer satisfaction.

* Loyalty and gamification tools.


Just a few startup needs in content publishing / ecommerce.  

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Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas Disrupt To Win

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The world doesn’t need another Social Network or a better project management tool — I will wait for you here while you come to this conclusi… (Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas - The Redux via @zachgersh http://t.co/ZA5odsZmuO)...
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Startups Disrupt To Win
Agree with Zachary Gerhman (@ZachGersh). There is no reason to devote money and years of your life to an incremental improvement on what is already out there when there are such HUGE needs virtually untouched.

A few months ago I wrote about how Internet marketing must disrupt to win (http://scenttrail.blogspot.com/2012/12/why-your-internet-marketing-must.html) in this well written and comprehensive post on startups Zachary conclusively argues the same idea for startups.

Zachary is working on a sequel so stay tuned.

 

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