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In Boston, a School to Learn How to Work at a Startup

ReadWriteStart

The Boston Startup School , founded at TechStars Boston (see For TechStars Boston, Life Beyond the Pitch ), is creating a program that will give aspiring entrepreneurs and others all the tools they will need to work at a startup. It comes down to serving the needs of the growing ecosystem of the Boston tech community.

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Accelerator Spotlight: Caesar Sustainability

View from Seed

I’m Connor Cash, the founder of Caesar and I grew up outside of Boston but currently live in DC! One hour I’m deep into product development, the next I’m thinking about our hiring needs and recruiting, to the next on a sales call. Get to know the founder. RH: Please introduce yourself. And your least?

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Boston Startup School Graduates To Institute With New York Expansion

ReadWriteStart

Taught by volunteers from the local tech community, Startup Institute has four tracks for students looking for the necessary acumen to work at a startup – web development, product and design, marketing and sales/business development. The Startup Institute started as a branch of startup incubator TechStars in Boston.

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Getting Small Business Loans Right – The Future Needs To Resemble The Past

YoungUpstarts

Instead, they employ old operating models that still rely on manual processes and assess risk with traditional methods, all cloaked as “new” and “alternative” because the application is online. Consider a Boston-based restaurant called Angelica’s. But, there’s nothing disruptive about an online application.

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5 Companies That Could Become The Next Apple

YoungUpstarts

Apple’s sales increase of close to $234 billion reiterates its commitment to quickly release superior devices to the consumer. It aims to one day expand into a media company; this objective appears more probable as GoPro’s sales continue to increase at a steady rate. Google’s Operating System Android.

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How Employee Experience Shapes Brand Perception

Duct Tape Marketing

Tiffani emphasizes the need for a balanced approach to company strategy that involves all stakeholders, including IT, Marketing, Sales, Operations, and HR. It'll be in Boston from September 5th through the eighth. So we have sales ops, we have, you know, marketing collaboration with sales, we have sales qualified leads.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Kayak is great Boston-area success story. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. Instead of making a few dollars per sale and hoping for thousands of sales, you sell to only a few customers, and charge much higher rates. Lots to learn from him. they have purchasing intent ).*. The Curation Team.