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30 Compelling Reasons to Start a Business

Up and Running

I ventured into entrepreneurship in 2003, when I fell victim to my third layoff within a six year time span,” she says. “I Neil Jacobs, a former business psychologist and current curator of online art gallery The Road Gallery, believes startups are the future of business. I started my own business and haven’t looked back since.”.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

In 2003 one of their first investments was Qiigo, Mike Yavondite’s company. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. The curated approach gives advertisers and publishers more comfort in knowing the quality of content they will be amongst. So it is a combination of markets and people.

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My new fascination with Podcasts

VC Cafe

The reason podcasts captured my imagination today, is a podcast I listened to (very meta) by Recode’s Peter Kafka, and Nick Quah, journalist and curator of HotPod. Superbly curated, and Guy Raz is just a pleasure to listen to. Today I’d like to talk about one of my new favourite media formats: Podcasts. itunes.apple.com.

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My fascination with Podcasts

VC Cafe

The reason podcasts captured my imagination today, is a podcast I listened to (very meta) by Recode’s Peter Kafka, and Nick Quah, journalist and curator of HotPod. Superbly curated, and Guy Raz is just a pleasure to listen to. Today I’d like to talk about one of my new favourite media formats: Podcasts. itunes.apple.com.

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Five Things We Learned from Starting a Community Radio Station

Up and Running

In 2003, when Radio Boise was in its infancy and only just banding together as a team of like-minded individuals, it was known as the Boise Community Radio Project. While there is a small paid staff of seven people who help run the station—both part time and full time—the deejays are all volunteers.

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Weekend Fav April Thirty

Duct Tape Marketing

Bag the Web – helps users curate Web content. Even allows for you to set a mile time pace. Verishow – live chat and support tool that also let’s you launch an on the spot web meeting with a site visitor. For any topic, you can create a “bag&# to collect, publish, and share any content from the Web.

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Weekend Favs May Seven :: Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct.

Duct Tape Marketing

Top Facebook Marketing Resources – Mari Smith uses another cool tool, Storiy , to curate a list of Facebook marketing tools. Image YiShian | Photography via Flickr Good stuff I found this week: How to monitor social media mentions in five minutes a day - step by step directions for setting up a powerful listening station.