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Building An Effective Board For Your Startup

Duct Tape Marketing

Prior to co-founding Foundry, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and is also a co-founder of Techstars. Key Takeaway: The first time many founders see the inside of a board room is when they step in to lead their board. [12:15] Brad has been an early-stage investor and entrepreneur since 1987. Yeah, yeah.

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3 Ways Technology Is Changing Small Business Lending

YoungUpstarts

In 1994 Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said, “retail banks are dinosaurs, they can be bypassed,” in a Newsweek interview. FICO credit scores, business cash flow and business debt are being joined by cash-flow reports, direct deposit data and, in some cases, social media reviews and metrics during the approval process.

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25 Marketers Share Awesome Social Analytics Tools For 2016

Brandanew

Most small business and Startup founders are talking about customer engagement and social presence beyond the customary likes and one-post-a-month schedules. We talked to global social media experts and influencers to share with us their top social analytics tools for the coming year. Tina Chan, Social Media Manager, GEECL.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 21, Part 1: Kathy Ku and Orin Herskowitz

Steve Blank

How this research is transferred outside the university, and why this “tech transfer” process is important was the focus of an interview with two of the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). Want to be a guest on the show?

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43 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

One of the main reasons why my partners and I started TopFire Media is to fill a void within the franchise arena. The co-owners, including myself, put our heads together to create a first-of-its-kind integrated digital marketing and PR agency, catering to both start-up and seasoned franchise companies. Thanks to Karen Cahn, VProud !

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Silicon Beach emerges as a tech hotbed

www.usatoday.com

Theres also eHow parent Demand Media, streaming video site Hulu, car-shopping site TrueCar and one dominant player from Silicon Valley: Google. Jen Sargent, founder of entertainment news site HitFix, says she can get folks to work for her at much lower rates than the "inflated" fees being offered in Silicon Valley and New York.