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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Disruptors

Hearpreneur

Their marketing campaign has been quite strong and, while many features are the same, it offers a competitor, which makes both platforms better because of how hard they must work to stay on top. It is truly a wonder when you start thinking about the massive scale that Amazon works at and how far the company has come along since 1994.

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A $25K Matching Gift To Boost Entrepreneurship in Kansas City Through Storytelling

Feld Thoughts

Today, Amy and I are announcing a matching gift from our Anchor Point Foundation to the Startland News’ Give A Start donor campaign. A thriving startup community also explores its failures, the ongoing challenges plaguing entrepreneurs, and how innovators not only can learn from them but also accelerate past the roadblocks to success.

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crowdSPRING Community Gives Back – MagazineLiteracy.org

crowdSPRING Blog

Give Back is the crowdSPRING community’s way of helping worthy non-profit and charity causes in need. Creatives in the crowdSPRING community have agreed that for these special projects, no monetary awards will be given. We’re thrilled that the crowdSPRING community’s next Give Back project is for MagazineLiteracy.org.

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What QR Codes Can Do For Event Marketing

YoungUpstarts

Invented in 1994, as the smartphone became more commonplace so too did the use of QR codes. Link customers with social media and your hashtag campaign. It can also work with community events too. QR codes can promote social media for sponsors, as well as help to create a viral online campaign. Brands & sponsors.

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

The African-American community with a global movement known as the Afro-Tech quietly mastered blockchain/distributed ledger technology several years ago to benefit urban communities. You need a community and ecosystem that adopts and use your tech.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. But even more exciting is when I see inflection points of adoption — which is why 2011 was a particularly exhilirating year for me. Nothing seems impossible anymore.

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Silicon Beach emerges as a tech hotbed

www.usatoday.com

Our vision for the school is to support the local ecosystem and our community, so this is fabulous," he says. tech industry since 1994, when he started as an engineer at video game company Activision. Sign up to get: Top viewed stories, photo galleries and community posts of the day. Scott Lahman has been working in the L.A.