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Twitter Link Roundup #157 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The Series A Crunch: One More Reason to Bootstrap and Skip Venture Capital | Enterprise Irregulars - [link]. 75 Best Illustrator Tutorials From 2012 | Creative Nerds – [link].

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Crowdsourcing Hope With Online Donation Platform GoFundMe

YoungUpstarts

The company has seen 20% average monthly growth in the last year, is on track to handle $3 million in donations this August alone, and projects a total of nearly $40 million in 2012. How successful have they been?

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How Well Versed Are You In Startup Investor Jargon?

Startup Professionals Musings

But recent changes in the law, associated with the JOBS Act of 2012 , have made it possible to sell small chunks of ownership or equity to non-accredited investors -- regular people on the Internet. This term is used to describe non-traditional ways to incent growth such as social-media and viral marketing. Ramen-profitable.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. June 19th, 2012. For example, with any outside investment, you give up some ownership and control, and with bootstrapping your growth curve will likely be longer and more organic. June 17th, 2012.

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How to find funding for your hardware startup while we’re waiting for the hardware revolution

Version One Ventures

Despite the recent media buzz surrounding the hardware revolution and emerging maker space, the overwhelming majority of hardware startups have a hard time attracting financing today. For example, Pebble (a watch that wirelessly connects to a smartphone and displays its messages) raised $10M on Kickstarter in 2012.

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What’s the Hardest Thing You Ever Had To Do? Startup Founders Share Their Darkest Moments

ReadWriteStart

. - Nathalie Lussier , Nathalie Lussier Media. But it became clear that writing this book was going to interfere with the big plans I had for my company for the latter half of 2012: namely, the creation of my new, advanced Web mastery course for women. Bootstrapping the Company. Turning Down a Dream Book Deal.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #3: The five critical ingredients to build a big company

Austin Startup

Now at Bazaarvoice we have acquired Longboard Media, which in a way concludes our original vision in our first business plan. Read my Lucky7 Bootstrap or VC? Also, it is very important that you maintain a bootstrap mentality to the greatest extent possible after you take funding. This lesson was first shared at Lucky7 on Dec.