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Start with local press first. Start with people you know. Don’t pitch every journalist.

Ben Parr

I’m proud to call myself a Mashable alumnus.
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Alumni Mashable Proud
There was more data transmitted over the Internet in 2010 than the entire history of the Internet through 2009.
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Data Internet Transmitted
Point-to-point transit via low orbit could dramatically speed up international flights, connecting the world even further. And safe, consistent space travel opens up the possibility of commercial space stations, trips to the moon and exploration beyond.
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Moon Orbit Space
More and more, the things we do in real life will end up as Facebook posts. And while we may be consoled by the fact that most of this stuff is being posted just to our friends, it only takes one friend to share that information with his or her friends to start a viral chain.
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Information May Real
Don’t let failure deter you; use it as a stepping-stone and an educational experience towards making your mark on the world.
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Educational Use World
Building a successful company (or living a happy life, for that matter) is not about embracing someone else’s philosophy, but staying true to your own beliefs about the world and learning from the mistakes you make along the way.
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Mistake Philosophy Successful
If you can’t build relationships from nothing, you will fail. You must have that drive.
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Drive Failing Relationship
Google is famous for making the tiniest changes to pixel locations based on the data it accrues through its tests. Google will always choose a spartan webpage that converts over a beautiful page that doesn’t have the data to back it up.
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Beautiful Data Google
Difficult situations require compassion, level-headedness & the empathy to see issues from somebody else’s perspective.
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Compassion Difficult Issues Situation
The world’s most successful entrepreneurs play hard, but they work even harder.
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Entrepreneur Hard Play Successful
Start with local press first. Start with people you know. Don’t pitch every journalist.
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Firsts Journalist People
Starting a company is a cause, not a job. Once it becomes a job, that’s when you lose
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Causes Jobs Starting
The big reason why we don’t have space colonies and regular trips to the moon is that flying into outer space is just plain ‘hard.’ The business of safely transporting people off the Earth is a costly affair that requires a lot of technology.
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Moon Space Technology
The more PR buzzwords you include in your press release, the less likely I am to write you up
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Press Release Writing
Attention is the most important currency that anybody can give you. It’s worth more than money, possession, or things.
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Attention Giving Important
Relationships are the key element to Press & PR
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Elements Keys Press

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