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How Technology Helps Today’s Nonprofits Succeed — Starting in the Boardroom

Board Effect

In a column on how much time board members should commit , Nick Marzano, board president at Young Involved Philadelphia, describes ideal “working board” members as “ride-or-dies, not just advisors.” It’s also in the interest of board members, who may already be committing the equivalent of a second full-time job to this volunteer activity.

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – VP of Sales, CTO, VP of Engineering

This is going to be BIG.

VP of Sales, Monetate - Philadelphia, PA A finger hovers above a mouse button. Monetate Mobile adds mobile-native navigation, search, GPS store location, cart access and more, to any site, overnight. I tried to make it a little more entertaining than your average job RSS feed. It wants to click. It.must.have.Prada.

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Incorporate Your Startup at the Right Time

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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

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Johnson also says that search engine issues have affected the style of names. People consciously try to create names with unique keywords so theirs will be the only result in targeted Google searches. Amidst all the search engine and domain name drama, consider that names are memorable when they sound good. Is It Sticky?

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How to Build a Startup Team

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Make sure someone is thinking about overarching plans around PR, marketing and sales and spends time crafting the right messages, understanding audiences and figuring out distribution channels. Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006.

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HOW TO: Sign Up Users Even Before You Launch Your Startup

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Philadelphia-based startup LaunchRock thinks a company’s “coming soon” page should be more than a placeholder; it should be a place for users to sign up and provide a way to share a new startup with friends. After someone signs up for your site, you ask them to share it with their friends through various social media channels and/or email.

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It's Always Sunny on the Web

Genuine VC

People fire up YouTube and watch the latest most popular clip forwarded to them, or you turn to Hulu to catch an episode of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” that was missed last week on FX. The web’s freeing from the binds of 500 cable channels will have the same effect on video that unshackling from physical printed materials had on text.

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