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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

Both Sides of the Table

It’s tempting to want to stay in your offices and fund raise via email or web conferencing. Our biggest returns were outside Silicon Valley: Overture (LA), CitySearch (LA), BillMeLater (Baltimore), Ulta (Chicago), Envestnet (Chicago), HDI (Las Vegas), PF Changs (Arizona), TrueCar (LA). Press the flesh.

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Twitter Link Roundup #51 – 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! Old and New School Angel Investing Philosophies Clash in Chicago – [link]. Get Inspired: Beautiful Examples of Textures in Web Design – [link]. – [link].

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

My firm, atCommunications, LLC—a Chicago-based Web development and digital marketing agency—is this year celebrating its 20th year in business! Since both sets of my parents went through bankruptcy while I was a child, learning about how to manage money became almost an obsession of mine. Photo Credit: Terry Kasdan.

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Your backup plan is the reason you’re going to fail

Jeff Hilimire

Toward the end of our first year of business (our company was called NBN Designs at that point, and we built websites) we found ourselves in New Zealand pitching a company to build a massive web portal. Up until that point, our largest website project was a $250 project for my aunt in Chicago. In our $50 suits :).

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The Art of Work with Jeff Goins [VIDEO]

Up and Running

His web site, Goins Writer has been visited by more than four million people from all over the world, and Jeff’s book, The Art of Work, has been highly praised by such business gurus as Michael Hyatt, Seth Godin, so I think you guys are really in for a treat here with the content that Jeff is going to be presenting to you today.

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