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

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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.). Security flipped on its head. The image above puts into perspective how much power we have in our pockets with a smart phone. College tuition is out of control.

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How Open Should a Startup CEO be with Staff?

Both Sides of the Table

I think it’s kind of like a terrorism and security analyst. In the startup journey if you have success in your early product launches, fund raising and PR you’re likely to get “inbound interest” from likely acquirers. It’s 2003 and VCs aren’t exactly lining up to fund startup businesses.

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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. Or at least photographed or streamed video to a secure cloud where law enforcement could locate, then recognize the terrorist who committed this terrible crime.

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How “False Expertise” Can Damage Your Business—and How to Protect It

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invasion of Iraq in 2003 as a classic example.) PR professionals and marketers have recognized the potential value of that proxy and shoved their leaders into the spotlight. In this instance, the “experts” were potential security threats: “TSA is constantly trying to read behavior. – Daniel Kahneman. He cites the U.S.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

Our development was a particularly complicated build requiring 5 developers, a systems architect, an html coder, a SQL specialist, 4 testers, 2 designers, a graphic designer, a project manager and a security specialist. If our aim was to raise financing and employ these people directly, we’d have burnt through $5-7 million before launch.

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

It ensures safety and security. In 2003 I selected and filed on the name All My Best for my copyediting business, a sole proprietorship, in order to hold myself to a higher standard and to imply a promise of high quality to my prospective clients. Eventually we landed on Red Shoes PR. Thanks to Lisa Cruz, Red Shoes PR.

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35 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

The process took about two weeks from start to finish, and I secured a registered trademark for the name later that year. When I actually started my PR firm in 2001, I had the name and the LLC already, so that’s what I went with, and in 2009 we rebranded to simply be The Eisen Agency. 2 – My Father Visited a Neighborhood.

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