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Tech That Can Make The Freelance Economy Sustainable

YoungUpstarts

Micha Kaufman, CEO and co-founder of Fiverr, believes the freelance ecosystem will become a viable solution for entrepreneurs who need assistance with a variety of tasks for their growing businesses. Named to the Forbes’ “30 Under 30” and Debrett’s 500 lists, Johnston lives in San Francisco. Managing the Freelance Economy.

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24 Entrepreneur Explain How They Come Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

Even though we focus on email marketing now, the name still makes sense, so we kept it. I was visiting a coworking space in San Francisco and chatting with a few of his coworkers about some of the ideas I was thinking of pursuing. I found airdrop, but it was already popularized by Apple. So I went with the word supply drop.

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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Startup Lessons Learned

The Entrepreneur’s Guide is an easy read. While the customer development framework of Four Steps is universally relevant, The Entrepreneur’s Guide updates its practices for modern startups. Many “airport business books&# urge entrepreneurs to never give in. I think theyve succeeded. In fact, they probably will.

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European startups: Here’s how to (not) raise capital in the US

The Next Web

If you’re a European and work in tech in San Francisco, every summer you’ll be inundated with dozens of emails from friends, contacts and unknown European entrepreneurs who will ask you for advice and introductions to US investors for their classic VC fundraising trip. Entrepreneur Europe Insider Analysis and Opinion'

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Top 14 Sites to Promote Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

It doesn’t take a lot to realize that around the world, young entrepreneurs have started talking compulsively about creating “the next big thing.” In New York, San Francisco, and the world over, investors are having lunches just talking about it. It also has an active and engaged community of young professionals. Best of all.

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Practical Strategies For Starting A Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Founders Space was ranked the #1 incubator for overseas startups by Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazines. Every entrepreneur must face this harsh reality and learn to master it if they hope to survive and wind up on top. But I, what I wanna do in the a book is tell entrepreneurs, you can't just dive into it. Like this show?

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My First Experience As A Venture Capitalist

Feld Thoughts

But it occurred to me today – after getting another email asking me how I’d become a VC, that I wasn’t really answering the question. Amy likes to remind me that when I was an entrepreneur, I used to regularly give talks at MIT about entrepreneurship. Do you want to help out?”