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

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The video above shows Billie Holiday (one of my favorite singers) singing “Strange Fruit”, a song that Time manazine named, in 1999, the “song of the century” The song is a protest against racism. Incubator 1871 Nurtures Chicago’s Growing Startup Scene – [link]. I’ll take a gigabit to go.

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When ice.com – a Top 500 Internet Retailer – Uses Mentors, You Should Too

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Ice.com is a perfect example of an already successful company that is putting their relationship with Capital Factory – an Austin-based incubator and coworking space – to good use. Founded in 1999 in Montreal, Canada, ice.com was recently acquired by Round 2 Inc., an ecommerce company headed by CEO Brandon Proctor.