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Turn Your Web Design Talent Into Freelance Success

YoungUpstarts

With so much demand and opportunity, now seems like a great time to tap into the market for quality freelance web designers, but what can you expect? Web design is an increasingly competitive profession. New projects will grow your portfolio, which will help you land more new projects. Have a portfolio.

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The real entrepreneurs of New York City

Startup Lessons Learned

While I was in New York, I had another opportunity to witness this firsthand, and I wanted to share the results with you. They actually built and tested several MVPs, the last of which was a web-based prototype of their mobile app that used real airport data. But there is something serious at work, too.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. In it, I got asked a question I often hear: “What if we have a web-based business that doesn’t have revenue or paying customers?

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Free Advice for: The New York Times iPad App

crowdSPRING Blog

The art and science of UI/UX is a well established presence in software and web design, yet plumbing the esoteric mysteries is beyond the ken of the average entrepreneur or small business person. But, we sure do know it when we see it and, shockingly, in the age of Web 3.x Books, magazines, blogs, and The New York Times.

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Boston Startup School Graduates To Institute With New York Expansion

ReadWriteStart

A new school designed to teach people the necessary skills to work within the chaos that are startups is coming to New York. Known as the Boston Startup School , the company is now rebranding itself as the Startup Institute and expanding its first class to New York City starting in June.

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Meet Chainalysis, the startup that brought down the biggest dark web marketplace

Cracking the Code

Gox track down hundreds of thousands of Bitcoins to the Dutch police crediting the company with helping them find Hansa, one of the world’s biggest dark web drug marketplaces , to the company’s more recent Crypto Crime Series published earlier this year, much of the work that they do remains behind-the-scenes, but is no less critical.

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[Review] Hits & Misses: New York Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Strategies

YoungUpstarts

In the book “ Hits & Misses: New York Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Strategies ” by award-winning journalist, columnist and essay writer Tina Traster , such decision-making by some entrepreneurs are put under the microscope.

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