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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. Video in Web Design | Webdesigntuts+ crowdspring.co/GZCPRt.

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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]. Responsive Web Design: Some of the Best Tools in the Game – [link]. I’ll take a gigabit to go.

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12 Tips To Leading Your Best Life (3/12)

Jeff Hilimire

But before we jump into it, make sure you saw my first two tips: #1 – Have a long-term focus #2 – Dream big, but start small (the 48in48 story) Storytime Once upon a time, in a land not-so-faraway, Raj Choudhury and I started a little web design business in the dorm room at UNC-Charlotte. Two things on this.

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Live From the StartupBus – Round 2, Part 1 – I got Scobleized – Post #5.

Up and Running

Entrepreneur Zack Price is guest blogging his experience on the 2013 StartupBus as it makes its way from Chicago to SXSW in Austin. I answer these same exact same publishing questions every day like it’s 1999. I actually started a book-publishing company in my college dorm room in … 1999. Relax, Chicago Startup Guy. </endrant>

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The unimportance of product names

37signals.com

This is Signal vs. Noise , a weblog by 37signals about design, business, experience, simplicity, the web, culture, and more. Established 1999 in Chicago. Got a web design project in mind? Find a web designer on Sortfolio. Salon has an article about naming companies, from 1999: The name game. Apr 27 2010.

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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. It’s tempting to want to stay in your offices and fund raise via email or web conferencing. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. Press the flesh.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

What started as a web site to trade laser pointers and Beanie Babies (the Pez dispenser start is quite literally a legend), today enables transactions of approximately $100B per year. In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities.