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[Interview] Benjamin Yee of EMERGE App

YoungUpstarts

Aggressive expansion plans will no doubt see Ben explore off-the-beaten-track towns in Europe and South America in the near future. I started with a custom t-shirt printing company, branched out into a creative agency and then spun out a software solution from my t-shirt business that you see today as EMERGE App.

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DesignCrowd takes on 99Designs in the US, seeking to grow its crowdsourced design business tenfold

The Next Web

In particular, we’ve developed a crowdsourcing model that is fairer and more lucrative for designers and, in turn, better for customers. The country also provides DesignCrowd with its largest source of designers, and revenues there have doubled in the last six months alone.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

My father was a doctor, a pediatrician with zero interest or knowledge in business at all. He grew up in Colombia, South America. You have been at five startups, you had an exit at your last company where you were the Chief Revenue Officer. I grew up in Northern California. His father came from Romania.

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Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment

Steve Blank

I did a keynote on innovation hubs at the newly created DoFuture program , spoke at Santiago’s Startup Weekend on Customer and Agile Development, and at a Conference in Patagonia supported by the Ministry of Economy’s Innovation Division. Chile has decided that it wants to be an innovation hub in South America.

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

online.wsj.com

Small Business. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. SMALL BUSINESS. more in Small Business. Small Business » Subscriber Content Read Preview.

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Exclusive: Enigmai Helps SMBs Simplify Complex Workforce Scheduling on the Cloud [Interview]

VC Cafe

We can save our customers time and money. VC Cafe: What’s your ideal customer/target market and who are you working with today? Almost every type of customer can use it: hotels, hospitals, retail stores or chains. VC Cafe: What feedback did you get from the customers that are live so far? How much do you charge?

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Exclusive: Enigmai Helps SMBs Simplify Complex Workforce Scheduling on the Cloud [Interview]

VC Cafe

We can save our customers time and money. VC Cafe: What’s your ideal customer/target market and who are you working with today? Almost every type of customer can use it: hotels, hospitals, retail stores or chains. VC Cafe: What feedback did you get from the customers that are live so far? How much do you charge?

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