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Twitter Link Roundup #222 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

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These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The image above is an interesting project from Strava, showing a heatmat of bike paths in the Chicago area. 50 Beautiful Web Typography Examples | 1stwebdesigner – crowdspring.co/1mVOVND.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d. Deflationary Economics now favors us. I think it’s the era of the application.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

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I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. And this is happening in mezzanine (pre-IPO) deals as well. And post IPO deals, although these tend to correct more quickly. Why does all this matter?

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Book: Where The Jobs Are

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While The Center For American Entrepreneurship website has a series of pages describing the issues and solutions to them , I didn’t find a crisp summary of the book on the web. Fix Venture Capital by Fixing the IPO Market. So I decided to create an outline of the policies and the recommendations. They follow.

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Twitter Link Roundup #115 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

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These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Some Thoughts On The IPO Market For Web Companies (by @fredwilson) – [link]. How Google+ Is Changing the Web, Even Though No One Wants It To – [link].

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

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Or how about the best example – Loic Le Meur gets everybody over to Paris every year for Le Web. I also learned about this amazing resource in Chicago called BuiltInChicago which I intend to use for my trip there in November. That IPOs and then continues rising. LA has the annual Monty Conference. And build from there.

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Twitter Link Roundup #162 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

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These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Why Startups Die | The Next Web - [link]. Thanks To Facebook, Strongest Year For IPOs Since 2000 With $21.5 10 Best Photoshop Web Layout Design Tutorials 2012 – [link].