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Managing Social Media With Fetch Plus

YoungUpstarts

Fetch Plus is founded by 32-year old Carmen Benitez , who acts as its president and managing director. Its product Fetch Fans is a social media design application that builds highly interactive and custom branded Facebook business page tabs, Twitter and blog backgrounds, which was launched at DEMO earlier this year.

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How to Use Frugal Innovation to Grow Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

Developed by the UK-based nonprofit Raspberry Pi Foundation, this tiny computer was designed to provide affordable access to computing education in schools. The traditional banking system often excludes those living in poverty, making it difficult for them to save and manage their money. Mobile banking in developing countries.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios. It helped that in the nuclear winter that followed the crash, 2001 – 2004, startups and VCs were extremely risk averse and amenable to new ideas that reduced risk. Every startup is in a race against time.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

After doing some market research, I realized that there was a market for the handcrafted greeting cards that I make, and in September 2019, MsCraftprincess Designs was formed. Coone, MsCraftprincess Designs LLC ! #2- As the agency work poured in, I also tried to manage everything on the home front. that add texture.

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Hear how the Lean Startup began — and helped one company find success: Episode 2 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Eric Ries and Jon Sebastiani

Steve Blank

Back in 2004 when Eric and his IMVU co-founder Will Harvey approached me about investing in IMVU, I agreed on one condition – they had to take my Customer Development class at UC Berkeley Haas Business School. . At the same time, the jerky manufacturer they had designed their first flavors with decided to make their own jerky.

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Kindred Spirits – Our Investment In Founder Collective

Feld Thoughts

Foundry Group is best known for our investments in startups, but our vehicle currently investing in other venture funds, Foundry Group Next, is off to what we believe to be a great start and I wanted to share an update about it by talking about our new investment in a fund managed by Founder Collective. It starts with the people.

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Selecting An Agile Coach

SVPG

Starting around 2004 and 2005 I began seeing an increasing number of teams moving to Agile, and of course the first thing they needed was training and often some coaching. Given the key roles of product manager and UX designers, any potential trainer must understand how these people work with an Agile delivery team.

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