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Build it and they won’t come: How and why growth hacking came to be

The Next Web

Growth hacking has resonated in the startup community due to today’s growth challenges: new channel creation, channel saturation, the “best product” fallacy and “product-growth” fit. Channel instability. The creation and destruction of channels is a common occurrence today. Channel saturation.

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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. The web-based business lending market is still relatively new, but non-bank lenders are developing technologies to address the financing needs of small businesses across the United States.

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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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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. This helps significantly when you’re targeting your audience and evaluating the effectiveness of your LinkedIn channel as a whole. Martin Harrison , Co-founder, Copify.

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43 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

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. It was 1994: the Internet was still in its infancy and e-commerce was still a relatively new phenomenon. 13) Better way for to shop online.