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The Digital Transformation Is Affordable For SMBs: Where To Start In Your Digital Strategy

YoungUpstarts

Predictive analytics help determine the most effective markets for adspend, suggesting areas where the product is being well-received and those where the cost of customer acquisition is unreasonably high. CMOs who employ AI-powered marketing report significant gains in customer retention, engagement, and lifetime loyalty.

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Why Real Learning is Outside the Building, Not Demo Day

Steve Blank

While our teams have mentors, socialize a lot and give great demos, the goal of our class final presentations is “ Lessons Learned ” – about product/market fit, pricing, acquisition/activation costs, pricing, partners, etc. Here’s how that happened. We had a killer team and all the right skillsets.

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Build vs. Buy: Which is Right for Your Business?

ConversionXL

If you’re building new technology, get clear on how it will work with your existing software (if it needs to). When buying, evaluate the development languages your acquisition is built on to understand how complex the integration process will be. In this way, company acquisitions foster growth in all areas.

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You Don’t Need To Be An Engineering Genius To Start A Billion-Dollar Company

ReadWriteStart

.” Furthermore, he wrote, “back in 1993 we had to buy and continue to pay for maintenance on everything we needed just to build our service—operating systems, compilers, web servers, application servers, databases. Tomorrow, that billion-dollar startup acquisition might not need an engineer at all. You name it.”

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

Both Sides of the Table

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. 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. They wanted to employ our entire team post acquisition. Felipe grew up in Brazil.

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Top Platforms for Freelancing Newbies

Transformify

If you’re wondering whether you have what it takes to take on freelancing, here are some of the popular types of freelance work you can start with: Web Development and Designing. Search Engine Optimization or SEO, SEM. Web Research. Software Testing. Teaching and Tutoring. Freelance Writing and Copywriting.

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TechStars FounderCon 2012

David Cohen

Speaking of being acquired, we also awarded gold shirts to the TechStars alumni that had successful exits in the last year: ThinkNear ; GoMiles ; Frame ; Thinkfuse ; TimZon (SnapEngage) ; Foodzie ; and Everlater (who announced their acquisition by MapQuest/AOL at FounderCon that day).

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