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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

No more 60 hour weeks at a job where the owners apparently were unable to run a successful operation. 9- Providing Legitimate B2B Customer Data in the Era of Mistrust. That's when I was struck by the idea: Why not provide a legit B2B customer database that is neither dodgy and nor a bad fit for a business? No hassles.

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Taking on Tech Titans

Reid Hoffman

Additionally, as Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman points out, competition from the big companies isn’t necessarily a bad thing. “If They’re both fruit, but they’re very different in terms of how they operate. And to me, a much more common occurrence is looking at the structure of how a well-placed incumbent operates.

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Taking on Tech Titans

Reid Hoffman

Additionally, as Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman points out, competition from the big companies isn’t necessarily a bad thing. “If They’re both fruit, but they’re very different in terms of how they operate. And to me, a much more common occurrence is looking at the structure of how a well-placed incumbent operates.

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Should You Get Rid of Your Website’s Lead Forms?

ConversionXL

Flash forward to today, and the rise of messaging has disrupted that old communication paradigm. Case in point: Earlier this year, we ran a secret shopper-style survey where we filled out lead capture forms and made sales inquires on 433 B2B websites. True, some companies experimented with social media as a sales channel as well.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

They are fully fungible for hard currency through Safaricom’s network of retail partners for either the sender or recipient of an M-Pesa mobile payment. They picked online, because signing up online B2B partnerships is quick, easy and capital light. Canadian operator Rogers filed to become a bank last year. Enough said.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

Mashable Mashable reached out to angels, seed stage investors and VC firm partners and asked them to share their wisdom with the rest of us. Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups.

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Special: 20 Israeli Startups Come to London for “New Media” Delegation

VC Cafe

VC Café is privileged to support the event as the main media partner. Celeno and its partners deliver to the market Wireless Video Systems that solve the home wiring problem for HD video streaming. Funtactix builds and operates a top notch, white-label, virtual world of multi-player web based games, in a few months.

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