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Twitter Link Roundup #199 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Chicago’s startup engine roars | Chicago Tribune - crowdspring.co/16aYZLL. Fewer US startups now than in 1999. Can Angela and Tim Create Apple 3.0 — Or Not?

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Twitter Link Roundup #144 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Incubator 1871 Nurtures Chicago’s Growing Startup Scene – [link]. 10 Steps to reinvent media strategy – [link]. I’ll take a gigabit to go. Market – [link].

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73.6% of all Statistics are Made Up

Both Sides of the Table

The headlines in the media are filled with that latest stats. In 1999 I was in Japan doing a strategy project for the board of directors of Sony. But these people went to slightly better schools (Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, University of Chicago) and got slightly better grades. How to Interpret Analyst Reports. Stats sell.

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

Both Sides of the Table

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. GroupOn, Living Social, AdMeld, Gilt Group, Demand Media, ShoeDazzle, Tumblr, FourSquare, etc. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. I’ve raised seed rounds and A-D rounds.

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

After thinking about how much I enjoyed helping her business grow and learning all I could about business structure, marketing, SEO and social media to name a few, I decided to take these new skills and help other small business owners. The life of entrepreneurship is definitely overly glamorized on social media.

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[US][Competition] U.S. Chamber of Commerce DREAM BIG Small Business Of The Year Award 2012

YoungUpstarts

This year’s winner will be following in the coveted footsteps of the 2011 Great Lakes finalist and winner, Chicago-based Red Frog Events. Founded in 1999 by college student Bryn Carey, this ski and snowboard rental and delivery service is used by over 30 ski resorts in locations such as California, Colorado and British Columbia, Canada.

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The unimportance of product names

37signals.com

Established 1999 in Chicago. Salon has an article about naming companies, from 1999: The name game. It makes me wonder if working in advertising/new media helps make this a stumbling block, as what is necessary for sites that are part of of tv+print campaigns doesn’t work for smaller projects. Apr 27 2010.