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Visit to Case Foundation and Startup America

David Teten

They do that by aggregating America’s startups, providing them with pro bono services, and promoting regional ecosystem development. However, as we got involved in issues like clean drinking water, we realized we’re missing a big opportunity to rally communities around us. Goal: tap into power of developers to solve community problems.

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5 Ways to Improve Local Search Results for Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Be a Community Resource. Another powerful way to improve local search results and amplify your local search opportunities is to create content that is related to your community, regardless of whether it directly relates to your products or services. A great example of this might include coverage of local sporting events or festivals.

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Every Founder that Hates "Personal Branding" Should Write a Book

This is going to be BIG.

Well, at 125 words per minute, 48 minutes of podcasting will net you a chapter. So, if you were actually trying to turn your podcast content into a book, it would probably take you between 2-3 podcasts to net a chapter. Does it help a prospective employee understand what you, and by extension, your team, might be like to work for?

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

35:50) Building community on text messages and threads. (38:30) Some of it's communication. But a lot of it is also just getting the data, aggregating it, being able to take action on it. I don't unfortunately, feel like I can say that it will net out as a good thing because of so much devastation that seems to be inevitable.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

At Kindred Bravely, we have two goals: creating maternity and nursing clothes that are beautiful, useful, and comfortable, and building a community of moms who support and encourage each other on the motherhood journey. Financial cushion” is a common expression used to describe a safety net of cash, there to help you out if you need it.

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Startup Tools: Free Software open Source Directory

VC Cafe

JISC Advance is a service, which provides advice, guidance and training to the UK’s Further and Higher Education community on creating digital media resources and leveraging them for teaching. RSS aggregator. OTHER APPLICATIONS. Open source. CAD (Computer Aided Design). Greenstone. www.greenstone.org. www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte.

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High-performance culture: MJ Vigil on hiring diverse talent in an increasingly multicultural world

Transformify

That means unifying the company’s exceptional talent around a set of shared values to create lasting relationships between PEMCO, its customers and the community. Our community is connected, and we embrace all of the ways we are the same and all of the ways we are different. ” Absolutely.

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