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Giving Tuesday: How BoardEffect Is Giving Back to Nonprofits

Board Effect

BoardEffect was founded in 2007 by a team of web developers that served nonprofits and educational institutions. The web developers determined to make the duties of the wonderful people they worked with easier by making a program to help them lead their organizations more efficiently and effectively.

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Small business startup kit for 2007 – mostly free!

BeyondVC

Instead, I would get all of my email and calendaring functionality through Google Apps for your domain – it is free and provides 2 gb of email, integrated calendaring with your email, chat and simple voice chat, and an ability to create simple web pages. The post Small business startup kit for 2007 – mostly free!

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Social Networking in Web 1.0.

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5 Lessons Learned Launching a Startup With No Plan, No Cash, and No MBA

Up and Running

You might feel like a bit of a wet blanket when you start pushing people to hire a lawyer and write up contracts or an operating agreement. I discovered this firsthand when I contracted a software developer to build a system for the English teaching company that allowed classes to be purchased and scheduled via web application.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. So I asked our COO, Stuart Lander (a Brit) to set up operations for us. In 2007 Salesforce.com wanted to buy Koral. He spent a bunch of this time in Canada.

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‘You cut, I choose': A startup protocol for breaking up with your business partners

The Next Web

It was the winter of 2007 around Christmas time. Four years before, I got an investment from a real estate fund that was interested in starting its tech operations, and. This story continues at The Next Web. Vlad Stan is the CEO and Founder of StartupKit. I was about to receive one of the most beautiful presents I’d ever gotten.

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How To Negotiate with Vendors, Partners And Employees

YoungUpstarts

Even so, it’s difficult (and perhaps impossible) to operate a small business or startup and not negotiate agreements with employees, vendors, customers, and others. by Ross Kimbarovsky, founder of crowdSPRING. Not every entrepreneur or business owner is comfortable negotiating. Many dread the adversarial nature of negotiation.

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