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6 Tips for Coming Up With Your Million-Dollar Business Idea

Up and Running

Voices.com , an online marketplace that matches voice actors with advertising agencies and TV and radio stations, began in 2004 as an idea scribbled down on a napkin by newlyweds David and Stephanie Ciccarelli. “I realized in the early 1990s that there was no appropriate yoga for fitness professionals,” says YogaFit® founder, Beth Shaw.

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Companies also use social networking sites in the hiring process, and increasingly, to do innovative advertising (such as the recent Jack in the Box campaign). Does advertising work in the social networking world? Sam earned a BA in Communications Arts and Sciences from Michigan State University. What are the risks and rewards?

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Bruno’s Barkin’ Biscuits, LLC is a small, home-based company in Michigan specializing in all-natural, preservative free, and healthy dog treats. I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. So I cut the corporate cord and co-founded Finespun Clothing. 12 – It was Just Time.

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Playing with Glass – Changing (and Saving) Lives (Part 2)

Up and Running

Google was a private company and their CEO and co-founder was visiting his and my alma mater in Ann Arbor, the University of Michigan, where I had just graduated a few months prior and was bumming around getting my own startup off the ground. After all, they had $125 million in the bank, what would they need public funds for?

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Getting Better at Getting Email

Duct Tape Marketing

MaryAnn Bekkedahl is Co-Founder & President of theSwizzle and an expert in email organization. She has earned spots for her brands on the prestigious and highly coveted trade lists including AdWeek’s Hot List, and Advertising Age’s A-List. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

www.foliomag.com

ADVERTISEMENT. ); ); ); Home » emedia and Technology. PaidContent.org Founder Launches Travel Media and Data Company. Advertising/Sales. Advertising Systems. 2010 Eddie and Ozzie Awards Call for Entries OPEN! 2008 FOLIO Award Winners. 2009 Eddie and Ozzie Awards Winners. Digital Magazines. -->. FOLIO: Alert News Updates.

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Episode 3b: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. Those tools do not integrate as seamlessly with e-mail as advertised. I would work full-time making software all day, and at night I would go home and give ski instructions here in Michigan. What does it mean to have a co-founder or not? We’ve tried it.

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