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ExhibitMatch.com – Matching Trade Exhibitors With Vendors

YoungUpstarts

If you’ve ever been a trade marketing manager in charge of setting up an exhibition booth for your company in a trade conference or expo, you know the acute pain of trying to source for the right vendors who can build and run your booth at the right price. Founded in 2010, Las Vegas-based startup ExhibitMatch ( www.exhibitmatch.com ) hopes to solve that particular problem – it is a global online interactive bidding platform that matches trade show exhibitors with stand builders from

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Startup To Translate Obama’s State Of The Union Address Up To 6,976 Languages In Real Time

YoungUpstarts

This evening, as U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to the nation during his State of the Union address, many volunteers will be working behind the scenes to translate his speech into thousands of languages. The team behind Babelverse , the world’s first real-time on-demand interpretation service, announced earlier today that they will translate President Obama’s address in real-time to viewers in every language around the world, which is potentially up to 6,976 languages.

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Why Sales People shouldn’t Prospect – An interview with Aaron Ross

For Entrepreneurs

In this article I interview Aaron Ross, co-author of a new book, Predictable Revenue. Aaron discusses his experience at Salesforce.com starting a new group that used an innovative outbound prospecting approach (involving no cold calls) to create new leads. Aaron’s group came up with several important breakthroughs which enabled them add over $100m in incremental [.].

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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21 Reasons You’ll Fail at Marketing

Up and Running

I don’t know what it is about Marketing, but everyone on earth seems to think they can do it. And yet I see so many people NOT doing it or wasting thousands of dollars and not getting results. I see business owners try the same things over and over, wasting more money, more time, and more energy. If I had 1/10 th of what business owners waste on stuff that doesn’t work, I’d be the most successful marketing consultant on the planet.

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Angel Investors, Venture Capital, Which Should You Chose?

Growthink Blog

As some of you may know, I started my career with The NPD Group, which is one of the world's largest market research firms. One of the things I learned there was that statistics can be easily manipulated. That's not to say market researchers purposefully falsify their research. Rather, what I'm talking about is how statistics can easily be manipulated during interpretation.

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How To Fire Yourself: Chris Ducker Reveals How He Removed Himself From His 300 Employee Company

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Press play to begin streaming the audio or right click the text link and choose save as or save link. Download the MP3 [ 63 Minutes - 30 MB ]. After ending his marriage, Chris Ducker packed his bags and moved to the Philippines for a fresh start.

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I don’t know

Start Up Blog

Most of the most important projects I have ever done, I didn’t really know how to do them before I started. Some I didn’t even really know how I did it after I completed it. I feel one of the most important insights to this new era of entrepreneurialism, is that knowing the answer is not really that important – if at all important.

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Creating a Company of Owners

Duct Tape Marketing

Creating a Company of Owners This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. I believe that one of the greatest opportunities we have as business owners is to create wealth. By that I don’t necessarily me get wealthy. I mean create an asset, a business, which is worth more today than it was yesterday. All too often this view gets buried in the push to create a paycheck.

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Windows = Screens

Start Up Blog

If you think my raving on about screen culture is just a little too much. Then, get ready for more. In fact, look around at all the places in your life where you see glass and windows. Now imagine all of those panes as actual interactive screens which are web enabled as well as, well simple normal see through glass. Because this is coming, and it is coming much quicker than we thought it would.

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Man I love working with enthusiastic people

Jeff Hilimire

It’s so energizing to work with people that are excited about what they’re doing. People who start their day psyched to see what’s in store for them. People who are wide-eyed and eager for new challenges. I feel bad for people that aren’t wired that way or aren’t in the right situation to expose that part of themselves.

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Will you?

Start Up Blog

It’s a matter of will. Everyone can, but not everyone will – Jim Rohn. Will you?

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Israeli Startups Raised $2.14 Billion in 2011

VC Cafe

Reports on the drop of local VC financing in Israel don’t tell the whole story. The latest IVC report reveals that in 2011, 546 Israeli high-tech companies raised $2.14 billion in VC funding, representing a 70% increase compared to the $1.26 billion raised in 2010 and almost double from the $1.12 billion raised in 2009. How can we explain such a big increase?

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Why Statigram rocks

Start Up Blog

A few days ago I blogged about the serious advantages of embracing an open API. And just recently I’ve come across another great example of an startup using it to full advantage. The tiny idea, yet mobile app phenomenon Instagram has been mashup up by the uber rad Statigram. And I love it. What Statigram does: - It provides statistics on your instagram feed (hmm obvious). - It shows who we interact with the most. - Timelines on our usage patterns and filters. - Churns your stats into reall

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Israeli Startups Raised $2.14 Billion in 2011

VC Cafe

Reports on the drop of local VC financing in Israel don’t tell the whole story. The latest IVC report reveals that in 2011, 546 Israeli high-tech companies raised $2.14 billion in VC funding, representing a 70% increase compared to the $1.26 billion raised in 2010 and almost double from the $1.12 billion raised in 2009. How can we explain such a big increase?