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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

mashable.com

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. And when — if ever — do you need to hire your own full- or part-time, in-house dev to work on your website and applications?

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

I hired several branding agencies to help us with brainstorms and ideation sessions, but none of them worked out. My business partner, Adam Hale, and I were both in Fort Wayne, Indiana when the company was founded. During the initial hospital stay, my insurance license came due for forty hours of continuing education.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

9:33) Scaling Up Excellence , process debt, technical debt, and human capital debt, plus rapid prototyping during the pandemic. (13:58) 28:12) The pandemic as a moment to invest in people and technology, have a plan and execute. And you think about how hard it is to hire a normal employee in any business.

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Out of the Crisis #2: Mark Cuban on putting people first, the Dallas Mavericks, and what we'll want on the other side

Startup Lessons Learned

It's never selfish to hire. In the mid-90s, late '94, early '95 my buddy and I were trying to figure out the best way to listen to Indiana basketball and we had to have a speakerphone where we had one set up in Bloomington, Indiana, one in Dallas, Texas. We reviewed the story of The Diary of Anne Frank and what she went through.

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Embrace: Valerie Lopez on the importance of employee-led resource groups

Transformify

‘’Diversity Hiring’’ series features world diversity and inclusion leaders and their thoughts on diversity recruitment, cultural diversity and equality. Lopez holds a bachelor’s degree in Broadcast Journalism and Gender Studies from Indiana University Bloomington. What does diversity hiring mean to you?

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

online.wsj.com

Loading… Tech. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. Mossberg Reviews the iPhone 5. Web Design/Tech Services. » More. » More. Loading… New York. » More. » More. Loading… Business. » More. » More.

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Multichannel Analytics: Tracking Offline Conversions. 7 Best Practices, Bonus Tips

Occam's Razor

Or there are people who will get their tech support question answered and as a result not call you on the phone (saving you $50 it costs you to answer the phone). You struggle to get budget to hire Analysts or Marketers. On your website if your phone number is well hidden (like on most tech support websites, #$%@*&!),

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