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10 Companies Want To Show You The Money

YoungUpstarts

Make extra cash to help with those expensive holiday costs and maybe even help you put some money back in your wallet so you don’t start the New Year off broke! by Pabla Ayala, cofounder of pFunk Media Is your holiday gift-giving list becoming longer and pricier than your current wallet can handle? An online marketplace offering 3.5

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Developments in 3D printing

The Equity Kicker

I’m in Leuven, Belgium for most of this week visiting 3D printing leader Materialise and attending their 3D printing conference. As the Materialise guys see it, at the moment 3D printing in volume is rarely cost effective for anything with a volume greater than a large marble or maybe a tennis ball.

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A Beer Drinker's View of the Venture Industry

Genuine VC

The famed business strategist Michael Porter described a set of successful general strategies which firms employ to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage: differentiation strategy and cost leadership strategy for those firms with a broad market scope, and a segmentation strategy for those with a narrow market scope.

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Generate and Transformify: Umbrella Solutions to Help Businesses Hire Top Talent Worldwide

Transformify

However, the ever changing regulatory framework tremendously increases the cost and the administrative burden. If the visa, work permit and relocation costs are added to the equation, it becomes hardly possible to source the talent the business needs to thrive. ‘’Test-and-Hire’’ Solution.

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Shoestring Marketing Budget? Get Your Customers to Do It For You

Up and Running

Multinational businesses have realized the value of social media, and are exploiting it relentlessly with marketing campaigns that cost a fraction of a regular advertising, and give far better results. Samsung started a beautifully designed social media campaign to increase its number of followers on Facebook, using a simple contest in 2011.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II.

Steve Blank

So they systematically designed electronic devices called “jammers&# to shut down each part of the German air defense system. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. In all the Germans had over 7,500 radars dedicated to tracking and killing the allied bombers. Each allied bombing mission lost 2-20% of their planes.

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6 Tips To Help Entrepreneurs Win And Grow A Strong Customer Base

YoungUpstarts

The best entrepreneurs Sell, Design, Build in that order. Michailidis told a story of how he reached out to the CEO of a large grocery chain at his home in Belgium. “I For Pushpins’ founders, one of the hardest parts of selling to corporate decision-makers was convincing them that using Pushpins would not cost them their jobs.

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