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Head, Heart, and Hands: 3 Essentials for Startup Success

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This article is part of our Business Startup Guide —a curated list of our articles that will get you up and running in no time! Howard Schultz brought the espresso bar concept from Italy to the United States and grew Starbucks into a global phenomenon. Starting up a business requires a lot of different steps. Ask yourself why.

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Blood, sweat, and tears: How we got from 0 to 500K downloads on a budget

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You see, coming from a UX background where the focus is on giving people a great product experience, I tended to look at the marketing side of business as something reserved to slick types – characters often played so well by George Clooney. Italy, France and Germany are now in our top 15 download countries. It cost us exactly $0.

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29 Entrepreneurs Discuss Why They Love Their Business

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It might be the products or the customers they deal with, or it could even be the fact that they are the ones in charge of it all. And when my entrepreneurial celebrity idol posts wearing my product on social media twice, I’m reassured that I’m onto something. Thanks to Emore Campbell, The Wedding Experience Curator ! #8

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500 Startups unveils its Fall 2012 accelerator lineup: More international and more sh*t founders say

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Startups in this class come from far and away, including Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, India, Japan, Italy, Latvia & Estonia, Spain, and Taiwan. Club W: service that provides curated, personalized wine subscription. accelerator and brought on two venture partners to help oversee its India investments.

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

I just directly observed that the technology for doctors was really far from what they needed to operate at a high productivity level," he told me. I didn't realize the intersection of the funding team who's technical enough, was product driven enough, with intersection of the funders who are open to learning this new concept.

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Sketching A New Mobile Web

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A brand new series on Smashing Magazine, where we highlight and curate the most interesting discussions, tools, techniques and articles that have been published recently and present them in a nice compact overview. Smashing Magazines editor-in-chief Vitaly Friedman will be speaking at the Feed The Brain conference in Venice, Italy.

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Transcript of Focusing on Gratitude to Build Relationships

Duct Tape Marketing

We had just come back from Italy after producing a Broadway play over there. And luckily, PWC proved that for every dollar you spend on employee emotional wellbeing yields $2 and 30 cents back in productivity. So we used to focus on curation. So this year the book comes out, and that’s the first type of product.