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Announcing nextNY Fellows: An Innovation Community Leadership Initiative

This is going to be BIG.

Five years ago, I started nextNY with the idea that it would be participant driven--that the community would take an active role in managing itself. Here's what they will get: - A $500 stipend for 2011 to be used on leadership development. An opportunity for visibility--press & PR, community awareness, networking connections.

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

Both Sides of the Table

Matt was one of my inspirations behind Launchpad LA (yes, we’re going to have a program in 2011 – news very, very soon). I figured if Matt was on the verge of bankruptcy and one mentor changed his trajectory, what if we had a formalized, community-wide program? To make PR big you need to find a way to “make news”.

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4 Definitive Ways To Deal With Outages

YoungUpstarts

Even a minute of downtime means millions lost in revenue and tons of bad PR. Their community manager had left one month before the downtime, so it didn’t seem like queries were being attended to. Now, with more and more people spending their days permanently online, companies can’t afford to go offline anymore.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Brandy Runyan, Black Diamond PR Firm, LLC ! #2- In 2011, I began learning about hair restoration and started North Atlanta Hair Restoration in 2012. I originally provided pro-bono public relations services to artists and non-profits due to my love for the community and the arts. 2- Develop world-class vehicles.

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Twitter Link Roundup #77 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Joint PR/Ad study finds PR getting higher marks in social media compared to Advertising [link]. Exciting Web Design Trends to look out for: 2011 Edition – [link]. Bizarre to see agencies blaming clients for agencies’ failure to evolve their business models – [link]. Half Of U.S.

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Twitter Link Roundup #68 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

The 2011 Trends Driving Rural Small Business, my annual look ahead: [link]. Three economic trends for 2011 (fueled by startup goodness) – [link]. An open letter to the Chicago entrepreneurial community – [link]. 4 Predictions for Web Design in 2011 – [link]. Need a Logo? A better Post-It – [link].

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Beyond the garage

Startup Lessons Learned

It may be hard to remember that there was a time when people in the agile software development community thought Lean Startup was incompatible with agile practices. No BS, no vanity metrics, no launches, no PR. SLLCONF 2011 is happening on May 23 in San Francisco. And those are just our keynotes! We’re just getting started.