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One thing that often happens with startups is that the founder has his or her head down for six months or more building something.  Then, they look up and say, “Let’s go market this thing and get the word out.”  My guest on the show today, Ali Mirza lets us know how backwards that approach is and how he’s helping companies do it the right way with his marketing agency iSocialYou.

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Make sure you check out Ali's site iSocialYou.com and his newest venture FiveOh.co.  I’ll have those links and more at startupdallas.co/42.  For my iTunes and Stitcher listeners, I’ll have the video version of this interview there as well.

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Also, if you’re in the Dallas area and you want to meet up, you can join me in North Dallas at the Coffee House Cafe every Tuesday morning for the Dallas Open Coffee Club where my co-host, Aimee Bentson and I host an hour of talking tech, startups and digital lifestyle.  You can find us on Meetup.com and search BigDOCC.  If you’re closer to downtown, this group’s founder, Michael Sitarzewski hosts his Tuesday morning meeting at 1700 Pacific.  And for those of you in other parts of DFW, there are coffee clubs now in Downtown Arlington, Oak Cliff, Fort Worth, and Denton.  If you hit any of these, you’ll meet and get to know some great folks in the startup community.  

Okay, let’s go start something.

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Show notes:

Ali Mirza

i Social You

FiveOh

Twitter - @AliMirza2k

               - @fiveohapp

UMKC - http://www.universityofmissourikansascity.com/

Lennox

Humana

Monkeybread

Publicis Hawkeye

Startup Weekend Denton

Lean Startup

Single Platform

Collide Village - Tahir Hussain

Paula Gean

Addison Treehouse

Chirag Gupta - NoD coworking