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An Absolutely 100% Non-Boring Article About Business Insurance

Up and Running

But in 2012, 6 million pounds of maple syrup were stolen from its facilities. Property Insurance in the news: The Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers is an organization that does exactly what its name suggests—produces lots of maple syrup. The losses amounted to $18 million.

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We crowdfunded $1.7 million for a new online news publication. This is our story so far.

The Next Web

He had just read an article on Nieman Lab that described the world record in journalism crowd-funding we had achieved by raising $1.3 His superiors weren’t all happy with this atypical approach to news and asked him to leave in September 2012. Apart from promoting some of our articles in Facebook posts, we don’t advertise.

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10 Reasons Why Traffic to Your Small Business Website is Dropping

Up and Running

An example of a website traffic issue due to an algorithm update would be a case in 2012 when several websites experienced huge drops in traffic. Blogger: Search for this article on Blogger 301 Redirects. This was the year that the Penguin Algorithm Update was released, and link-building strategies completely changed.

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GrabCAD & Professional Communities ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

January 4, 2012. Thank you for your comment about my articles, much appreciated! Coordinates Recent Posts The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] 11 July 2012, 1:57 pm Our Investment in Cloze 25 June 2012, 5:36 pm Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened 12 June 2012, 4:19 pm.

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Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

But if you read the whole article you glean more insight… the entire public equity markets have sunk in the last 3-4 months. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC Syndicate 10 July 2012, 5:13 pm What A VC Orders for Breakfast Says 27 June 2012, 10:16 am To Leave or Not to Leave as Your Startup Grows 12 June 2012, 12:21 pm.

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Some of the Most Memorable Marketing of 2012

Mike Michalowicz

The world not ending on December 21, 2012, wasn’t the only memorable marketing moment in 2012. Month-by-month throughout 2012 social media, marketing and social media tools changed hands, set records and sparked more new memes than Justin Bieber collected Twitter followers. Some even amused us.

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Speaker Lineup for the 2013 Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

This past spring we stumbled on a genius idea – in order to make our publisher products work, we were scanning millions of articles and categorizing them by politicians, issues and popularity, among other dimensions. visited political offices, and saw them painfully cutting articles out of physical newspapers and pasting them in binders.

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