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What Your Nonprofit Board Should Know About Pay Equity  

Board Effect

On one front, a new campaign with the slogan “#ShowTheSalary ” seeks to promote pay equity by encouraging employers to list salaries along with job listings. Some believe true pay equity requires nonprofits to campaign for better compensation, close the gap in pay scales, and remove education requirements. .

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Why Entrepreneurs Need To Keep Up With Changing Regulations

YoungUpstarts

by Kelvin Simmons , a partner at Nexus Group. For example, when ReShonda Young joined her family’s Iowa-based delivery company, Alpha Express Inc., Start a social campaign. Kelvin Simmons is a partner at Nexus Group , a full-service firm dedicated to government relations, lobbying, and consulting.

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Ellison Eyewear the Multi-Billion $ Sunglass Industry

Hearpreneur

Thanks to a new company helmed by Greek-American entrepreneur Aristotle Loumis of WearEllison.com , that worry will be a thing of the past, and everyday consumers can get in on his innovation via his outside-the-box crowdfunding campaign on Republic.co. At 18, he headed to University of Iowa to study dentistry. Handmade in Greece.

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How politicians are embracing social media in this 2010 campaign

Austin Startup

Mike Chapman, a partner with Apogee Communications, is working with Bill Leake in programming the eMarketing summit for next Thursday’s Innotech. He spoke with Matt Scherer, the publicist for 2010 Innotech and an Austin Startup contributor, on the deployment of social media in the campaign. Who is winning the social media battle?

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Multichannel Analytics: Tracking Offline Conversions. 7 Best Practices, Bonus Tips

Occam's Razor

There is perhaps no challenge greater than tracking offline impact of your online presence (campaigns or other activity). Your hair is thinning from repeatedly trying to get funding for online campaigns. It is perhaps one of the last few complex nuts left to crack. Because it is hard. Not impossible. that took ten seconds.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

The company raised $45 million in venture capital from firms including DCM, Emergence Capital Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners, and built partnerships with AOL Inc., David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners has stuck with Mr. Dreymann. Opinion: Noonan: The Romney Campaign Needs a New CEO. the previous year.

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Your city doesn’t have a startup community? Start one!

The Next Web

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Aaron Pitman , an angel investor and founder and partner of RA Domain Capital. After all, a great startup community can grow anywhere — from the buzzing streets of New York City to sleepy rural Iowa. You don’t have to be located in Silicon Valley to take part in a great startup community.

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