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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

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He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. In 1995, while in high school, Seth wanted to start a business scanning paper documents for companies, but realized it was a non-starter when he learned that a scanner costs $4k.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Incubators Are Reaching Out To 1M/1M

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and Singapore at significantly higher prices and presumably would be open to sourcing lower-cost parts. Next, Douglas Villalobos from Costa Rica pitched GeoInvenio, a mobile application development platform. These resellers buy devices from the U.S. GeoInvenio. We can derive GeoInvenio's business model and pricing model based on that.

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Why (and how) you should let your customers do the advertising for you

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My company was profitable, but I was constantly stressing over the daily fluctuations in advertising cost. One of the big issues that arose was that the site was not mobile friendly. George resides on the Connecticut coast, where he enjoys photography, his family, and starting new businesses.

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10 Best Apps For Small Business Owners

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There is an abundance of productivity and business mobile apps that can help you run your business remotely. Here are ten terrific mobile apps that you should consider using. Until recently, taking care of payroll, benefits, and other HR-related tasks from a mobile phone was a challenge. We love Gusto and use it at crowdSPRING.

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The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Steve Blank

Here are some of the final Lessons Learned presentations and team videos: Akara Solutions: Flexible, Low Cost Cooling Technology for LED Lighting. Principal Investigator: Yu Lei University of Connecticut. Mobidemics : Using Mobile Gaming for Healthcare. Part one of the posts on the NSF Innovation Corps is here , part two here.

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

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which makes a mobile app that rewards shoppers for creating a personal shopping mall and following their favorite stores. Connecticut. Low Cost Franchises. Connecticut. JAIRO PUENTES asks… Q: What is the best way to cut Medicare and Medicaid costs and provide affordable healthcare to most Americans?

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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