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Twitter Link Roundup #205 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

It compares a 2013 smart phone (an iPhone) to what you had to carry just 10 years earlier (in 2003) to have some of the same tools (camera, video, music, etc.). How to Win as a First-Time Founder – crowdspring.co/1iGhXzt. The image above puts into perspective how much power we have in our pockets with a smart phone.

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PR Founder Provides Social Media Advice for Companies Looking to Grow Brand

Hearpreneur

We had the opportunity to speak with Melissa Sin of anthonyBarnum Public Relations about how she started her business, her approach to PR and social media strategy. I started in New York at large, elite national PR firms. What’s your story? . Image Credit: Melissa Sinn. I have a 20-year career in public relations.

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How to Get Superior Returns in Venture Capital

David Teten

The importance of reputation is why, for example, Andreessen Horowitz invested early and heavily in their own PR, adding PR guru Margit Wennmachers as a Partner. . VC is one of the very few asset classes where past performance is predictive of future results, so reputation does have a meaningful impact on returns. – Thesis.

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How to Get Superior Returns in Venture Capital

David Teten

The importance of reputation is why, for example, Andreessen Horowitz invested early and heavily in their own PR, adding PR guru Margit Wennmachers as a Partner. . VC is one of the very few asset classes where past performance is predictive of future results, so reputation does have a meaningful impact on returns. – Thesis.

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How Open Should a Startup CEO be with Staff?

Both Sides of the Table

For starters let me use “CEO” as a proxy to include her “inner circle” which might mean co-founders or might just mean senior execs of the business. The Mind of the Founder. The mind of a founder is wired differently than most people. The startup CEO was not the original founder.

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Telling Your Brand Story Through Packaging Design: These 3 Businesses Are Doing It Right

crowdSPRING Blog

The Stanley brothers – founders of Charlotte’s Web – know this well. Ever since President Nixon declared a war on drugs in 1971, cannabis has gotten some pretty bad PR. In 2003 owner Paul Canella began selling biodegradable dog waste bags and he’s never looked back. Charlotte’s Web. The Packaging.

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Playing with Glass – Changing (and Saving) Lives (Part 2)

Up and Running

Catch up on Part 1 of his “Playing with Glass” series, this is Part 2… It was 2003, 10 years ago, but I remember meeting Larry Page like it was yesterday. Entrepreneur Zack Price was selected to be a Project Glass Explorer for Google. He said this. Tech-Nation turns it’s lonely eyes to you.