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The Proven Framework For Building A Thriving Community

Duct Tape Marketing

The Proven Framework For Building A Thriving Community written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Liz is a c ommunity design strategist, a community enablement architect, and the Creator of Return on Emotion. 15:20] What elements ignite a community when you’re trying to get started? [16:06] Like this show?

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How to Get World Class Experts to Support Your Company

David Teten

I was excited to see that GLG (formerly Gerson Lehrman Group), the industry leader, is now offering a professional network service geared to the needs of the startup community: GLG Share. Prabhdeep Singh: We become their learning partner and they become part of a special and vast community of professionals.

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Raise Capital With The Skin You’re In: Blunt Truth from Don Charlton, CEO, The Resumator

David Teten

I know we romanticize the LGBT entrepreneur making an app for the LGBT community, but too many of our ideas are “ghettoized” and not seen as “big ideas”. For later-stage companies, I suggest the Association for Corporate Growth online community, Axial , and Preqin. Don recommends: Don’t just do startups “for us”.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #14: Selling to the “Cool Kids”

Austin Startup

As I’ve helped entrepreneurs find their own product-market fit and connected them to potential clients, investors, and Advisory Board members, I’ve spent a lot of time telling them about the “cool kids”. In The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #10 , I cover the most proven way to hire well?—?it it isn’t easy.

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Making Friends With Millennials: Evolving The Customer Service Story

YoungUpstarts

How they think and feel; their sense of community; and their appetite to share their opinions are all creating new paradigms for how any business, regardless of size, connects with its customers. However, if you do make the investment and differentiate your business with great customer service, you can tap into this huge market opportunity.

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Seven critical lessons learned in angel investing

Austin Startup

We already believed in the macro trends of niche brands, retail differentiation (and disruption) in the age of eCommerce, The Long Tail , and consumer tastes and diets shifting faster than big CPG companies could keep up. look at all of the amazing Advisory Board members we have at data.world. In all things being equal?

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90 Things I've Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies

betashop.com

Before there was Fab there was fabulis, a social network meets places guide targeted to the gay community. Very hard to do, but it’s what differentiates great companies from good companies. Use them as a sounding board for corporate development issues. Advisory boards never amount to much. Think 5 steps ahead.