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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 17: Tiffani Bell and Clay Hebert

Steve Blank

Tiffani Bell is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Detroit Water Project , a platform that connects donors to people in Detroit and Baltimore in need of assistance paying their water bills. For example, in Detroit and Baltimore you can lose your kids over not having water in your house. Clips from their interviews are below.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

startupbaltimore.org

Home Events Calendar Job Board Startup Resources Archives About Contact Interested in an Open-Data Contest in Baltimore? I also don’t think any of them have taken the advice I gave them (but please if you’re out there, email me if that’s not the case and I’d love to write a follow-up post describing your progress!).

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Lean startup tools for Rails apps

www.subelsky.com

Heres a revised version of what I emailed in response, garnered while building OtherInbox and other Rails apps: First and foremost, I find Rails itself to be very useful for building a product for a lean startup; the expressiveness of Ruby and the conventions of Rails help developers more quickly build a minimum viable product.

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How Twitter Got Me into The White House & Saved My Son’s Birthday

Both Sides of the Table

And a guy that I had seen several times comment to me on Twitter & my blog, Brian Sierakowski (from the Greater Baltimore Tech Council) had sent me a Tweet asking if I’d come to meet entrepreneurs in Baltimore. We talked about her business, she sent me an email, and now I plan to have a call with her to learn more.

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The Power of Twitter in Information Discovery

Both Sides of the Table

As the standard gained popularity more people started “subscribing&# to output of their favorite content – either as an email newsletter or as an XML feed into their RSS Reader such as Google Reader. Feedburner, founded by now-Twitter-CEO Dick Costolo. It’s at the core of what Delicious was.

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More Postal Like Stupidity from the US Government

Campus Entrepreneurship

Last week was full of stories on the impending default of the United States Postal Services and the billions taxpayers must put in — even though many of us pay taxes and bills online, send email and text, and use services like skype and facetime. (I’d

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How to Get More Customers for Free This Week Through Google

Duct Tape Marketing

For example: “Joe’s Plumbing, Baltimore”. In the email, make sure you thank them for being an amazing customer, and make sure to thank them again after they wrote the review. Here are three really easy steps to getting a Google review: Type your company name and city into Google.