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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: SignNow.com

crowdSPRING Blog

than it is to explain how the 1999 UETA and 2000 ESIGN Acts and our https framework help keep us secure. I wanted to run a marketing campaign saying “Our business is so easy and secure it makes signing documents feel like a Corona commercial&# but our legal team said no. Small Business Spotlight of the Week: SpotHero.

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The rise of the “successful” unsustainable company

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

invested, IPO’ed in 2000 for $32/share — stock price now $2. But all that investment in growth and sales force didn’t have a long-term payback, and the actual value of the product to small businesses wasn’t as high as claimed, even though the simplest of customer development reveals this fact (ask any restauranteur).

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The Rise Of Hyper-Startups From Millennial Entrepreneurs

Mike Michalowicz

Believe it or not, there was a time when an aspiring entrepreneur would come up with a concept, develop a detailed business plan, prototype and refine the concept, seek a credit line from a bank, and then give it a go by bringing the concept to market. Nothing is guaranteed in business, even for the millennials. Hungry for more?

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A Time for Action

The Entrepreneurial Mind

Rates have been in turmoil over this time period, with two periods of significant decline -- one around 2000 when the dot.com bubble created an inflated number of start-ups which was followed by the dot.com bust -- and another decline in start-ups began when the current recession began. And what about bootstrapping? Just the opposite.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

Productive Programming - Gabriel Weinberg , August 31, 2010 BIG disclaimer: I'm not formally trained in computer science (aside from two classes at MIT in 2000) and I haven't worked closely with that many programmers or teams (maybe 10 or so). You can bootstrap your way into existence. Dec 26, 2009). believe that is certainly true.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

Small Business. SMALL BUSINESS. more in Small Business. The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. Harvard professor Noam Wasserman and WSJ small-business editor Vanessa OConnell took reader questions about avoiding start-up pitfalls on Sept.

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270+ Tools for Running a Business Online

mashable.com

Bootstrap – Online bookkeeping software that lets you track sales and expenses, organize your records for tax time, and more. Mumboe – Online contract and business agreement management app. FinanciFY – Easy to use online financial management tools for small businesses and individuals.