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10 College Business Incubators We’re Most Excited About

YoungUpstarts

Offering a “holistic entrepreneurship program,” this residential community has entrepreneurship at every step of the college experience. Only 15 technology startups are accepted at a time, but what the program lacks in quantity, it makes up for in quality. Harvard Innovation Lab. Innovation Depot.

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How and Why the NextView Everyday Economy Accelerator is Different

View from Seed

This initial wave of applicants resulted in the selection of six initial Accelerator participants – female & male founders at startups hailing from the Bay Area to Miami to Alabama to Boston, ranging from b2b SaaS offerings to consumer services… all transforming people’s everyday lives.

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It’s Back & Better Than Ever! Announcing NextView’s Everyday Economy Virtual Accelerator

View from Seed

We’re running our new and improved accelerator program back, we’re doubling our offering and raising the valuation cap (hello $400K) , and we’d love for you and your team to apply. Why we started the program in the first place. We chatted with some NextView founders to get a sense of how this distilled design worked for their teams.

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March 3-6, Birmingham, AL: Alternative Investing Conference

David Teten

This conference is an evolution of the Alternative Investment Roundup that the executives at SSBC designed, developed and ran each February in Arizona from 1997 through 2008. Noteable speakers include: Dr. David Bronner, CEO, Retirement Systems of Alabama. Borg, Director, Alabama Securities Commission. Professor Edwin T.

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Six Nudges: Creating A Sense Of Urgency For Higher Conversion Rates!

Occam's Razor

Be one of the last 9 people to own this credenza design. So that Timbuk2 bag might be delivered to me the next day, but it would take two days to get to Carissa in Alabama. Every smart ecommerce strategy has an individual-level referral program bolted on from the very start. Only 15 left in stock. How about: Last run!

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

We just happen to also be unapologetically dedicated to advocate-building communication, the future of web technologies and conversion oriented design. We came up with our name Design House because it was literally what we were and where we were at the time. Design we determined was in the core DNA of the services we provided.

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Shark Tank Season 4 week 10 breakdown

Lightspeed Venture Partners

The two founders are attorneys in Mobile, Alabama, who found themselves wearing the same ties over and over again, and wanted to find a way to expand their wardrobe. They talked about a referral program, as well as direct sales. I cover one of them, for Nearly Newlyweds, over at Entrepreneur.com. But the sharks disagreed.