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Demo day arrives for Springboard’s Internet of Things accelerator

The Next Web

The eight teams hail from all over the world – including entrants from Montreal, Toronto, Portugal and Bulgaria – and have spent the last three months tirelessly working away on their hardware-based startup ideas for the Internet of Things in preparation for today.

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[Interview] Christopher Kape, Vancouver Executive, President of JAMCO Capital Partners

YoungUpstarts

However, with market instability comes opportunity – opportunities to identify value when everyone is bearish on anything tech related and to establish yourself by taking a calculated risk. Some of these networks host an annual or biannual event where they invite you and other businesses to pitch to a couple of dozen angels at the same time.

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Our 7 favorite startups from the Wayra London 2013 demo day

The Next Web

So, for example, if you’re reading your favorite newspaper and see an interesting article you’d like to share with someone – or across a social network – you just need to scan the paper with the app and it will launch the digital version for sharing. In finding that solution, his team created iHelp – a community driven emergency network.

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Disrupting Finance From Above: Wealthfront

abovethecrowd.com

Shouldn’t our access to technology and scale lead to lower rates than say Bulgaria? If we are in a true competitive market, and one where technology should make things easier and cheaper, why are the offerings becoming more expensive? banking system is the Automated Clearing House network, broadly known as ACH. ACH Payments.

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Twitter Link Roundup #111 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Marketing: Facebook advertising for newbies – [link]. SEO Still Beats Social Media for Small-Biz Marketing – [link]. How to estimate market size – [link].

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Janvest Wants to Fill the Seed Investment Gap in Israel (Interview)

VC Cafe

To learn more, VC Cafe interviewed Brian Rosenzweig, one of the managing partners in the new fund and the former marketing director at 21Ventures. investors the opportunity to participate in the Israeli high-tech market. Janvest: First, JANVEST is a combination of best practices from leading Angel networks and VC funds.

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The Power of “In Person” – Why Distributed Teams are Less Effective

Both Sides of the Table

The CEO weighs in with his perspectives, the head of product management disputes his conclusions and the marketing VP has a different take. Because the formation of a business is so dependent on “product / market fit&# these are the critical roles for me. CEO, VP Products and CTO must all be in the physical location.