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Export Online Without Frontiers: A Global Map of B2B Marketplaces

The Startup Magazine

B2B Platforms in the United States. Instead of Asia, you may want to target the largest market on the planet, i.e. the United States. In fact, the Connecticut-based firm does not charge any fee for buyers willing to place orders. Opportunity Network is a marketplace backed by banks.

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New Year’s Data Security Resolutions

YoungUpstarts

by Phillip Alexander, author of “ Home and Small Business Guide to Protecting Your Computer Network, Electronic Assets, and Privacy “ Now that is 2013, here are some New Year’s resolutions to consider, with a data security angle. Know what social networking sites they’re on, and who their on-line ‘friends’ are.

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Join a conference simulcast near you

Startup Lessons Learned

Past livestream attendees have reported great conversations and networking. They represent more than 10,000 people total. If you're not attending the conference in person, consider meeting up with one of these groups to watch. Most simulcasts are free, although some charge a small fee to cover their costs.

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Transcript of Creating a Brand Name That Sticks

Duct Tape Marketing

In the United States alone, we are registering 564,000 new small businesses every single month. That’s 2% of the United States population starting a company at any given time, and that’s just a mind boggling number for me. Jeremy Miller: There’s actually a naming drought. John Jantsch: Awesome.

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The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Steve Blank

And to help teach these many teams, the NSF will recruit other universities that have engineering entrepreneurship programs to become part of the Innovation Corps network. This means more jobs, new industries and a permanent edge for innovation in the United States. Principal Investigator: Yu Lei University of Connecticut.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – June 2012 Edition

VC Cafe

The two companies have collaborated for a long time, with Facebook using Face.com’s technology to help users tag the faces of friends in pictures they upload on the social network with Face.com’s Photo Tagger service. Facebook’s acquisition of Face.com will enable the social network to embed face recognition software into its photo app.

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

So now here in CT people will search for we buy houses in connecticut. This project was a dare of risks as we never built a home outside the United States. We chose hub because it is the effective center of an activity, region, or network of all of these places. Photo Credit: Tim Kerin.

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