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19 Entrepreneurs List Their Favorite Technology Innovation

Hearpreneur

I quickly built a prototype that would connect to each of my bank accounts and aggregate all of the accounts & transactions into one platform. Using AI-powered solutions helps us serve our clients better & improves our operational effectiveness. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. Tell us in the comments below.

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page. N etwork – We organize events regularly to build out our community. – Aggregation, ranking, and discounts from service providers. Ethics Policy, Expenses policy).

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Five case studies you'll see at the Lean Startup Conference 2015

Startup Lessons Learned

The following is a guest post by Kirsten Cluthe and Ritika Puri from The Lean Startup Conference team Wondering what’s new in the Lean Startup community? Every year, our team conducts more than 500 customer development calls to understand what challenges the community is facing. Here are some of our favorites: 1.

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Visit to Case Foundation and Startup America

David Teten

They do that by aggregating America’s startups, providing them with pro bono services, and promoting regional ecosystem development. Despite their success, Startup America’s goal is to continue for three years, and then fold their operations and let the infrastructure they’ve created exist independently. Aggregate America’s startups.

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Seven Things Your Customers Can Do Better Than You

YoungUpstarts

So Westlaw created Peer Monitor, which aggregates anonymized data on firms’ financial and operational performance, collected from participating clients with their permission — and this turned into a lucrative new business. Believably promote your product. Close the sale.

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10 Predictions About the Future of Ecommerce

mashable.com

As brick-and-mortar stores started seeing sales slip, they plunged headfirst into the Internet, thus creating click-and-mortar operations. Amazons product suggestions are great because they have so much aggregate data. If they did, I could get an amazing aggregate view of whats relevant to me based on a more complete profile.

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The SBA Needs To Get It’s Act Together On The PPP

VC Adventure

After its enactment but before it was implemented, there were questions about the SBA’s “affiliation rules” which can disqualify companies if the aggregated number of employees at affiliate companies is greater than 500. The program sparked confusion from the start. This must be clarified and done so quickly.

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