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15 Female Entrepreneurs Share What Changes They Would Most Like to See in Their Industry

Hearpreneur

I am a session singer and producer, and I wish clients and peers would give me more of an opportunity to work in the technical side of the business (such as mixing and editing). One of the audience members introduced himself as representing a VC that was looking to encourage female entrepreneurs and business owners.

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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

We use email; we use Word; we use task manager; we use a file sharing tool. Meetings are definitely one of those places, but email is another primary way that that comes in. So that’s a very simple way of saying it’s task management, but it’s getting rid of emails that of course no one wants emails.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

This led me to realize there were two huge gaping holes in the industry, not just in terms of the way the industry served its customers – although undoubtedly this was a problem – but more importantly, inefficiencies and wastage that were always going to stop the private jet industry being accepted by a wider audience. Real humans.

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Episode 3b: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. You are coordinating customers by email. Those are the things that we have to do, and that’s what email for. Jason: Yeah, I think we need to do is to decide on who your target audience and actually talk to some of them with the screen shot and see what they think.

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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

My cofounders and I would hash out nuances and details almost every day, re-drawing diagram after diagram on the whiteboard. MeganMurray : "Behind every technical problem is a human problem. leanstartup #w2e (via @blader ) Amen mcavalcanti : #w2e #leanstartup every technical problem is a usually a human problem.

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The Future of Web Startups

www.paulgraham.com

And in particular, younger and more technical founders will be able to start startups than could before. One of the most common emails we get is from people asking if we can help them set up a local clone of Y Combinator. Back when it cost a lot to start a startup, you had to convince investors to let you do it.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. One is find yourself an audience and a marketplace and that’s something you can start doing within a week. How to move from a free to a paid product without losing all your users. How to differentiate yourself in a crowded market (and when perhaps you shouldn’t try).

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