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What Boston’s Top Consumer Tech Leaders Think About Boston’s Consumer Tech Struggles [#BostonB2C Recap]

View from Seed

The invite-only event was attended by 300 of the area’s best tech leaders, founders, product managers, designers, developers, investors, engineers, salesmen and women, and more, all of whom are hard at work in consumer tech. We have companies in Chicago, San Francisco (and elsewhere in Silicon Valley), Omaha, and New York.

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Quick Left: An unlikely CEO leads this app development house that’s “a bit like therapy”

The Next Web

In fact, she’s so unlikely to talk about herself or her company that, while sitting with her for dinner during Big Omaha, the subject of Quick Left came up (not from her, mind you) and I said that I really needed to talk to someone from there to find out their story.

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5 Famous Introverted Leaders And What You Can Learn From Them

crowdSPRING Blog

Our schools, workplaces, and religious institutions are designed for extroverts. Known as the “Oracle of Omaha,” Buffett is one of the world’s richest men and a respected financial leader. Apple Co-founder and introvert Steve Wozniak, like Rowling, understands the value of working alone. Warren Buffett.

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20 must-attend tech conferences for female entrepreneurs in 2014

The Next Web

Earlier this month, I asked members of the Young Entrepreneur Council about the top events for founders in 2014. Big Omaha. I attended Big Omaha last year and was thrilled with the speakers and attendees I met. Kelsey Meyer , Influence & Co. . Their top picks (not all are gender-restricted!) . Women’s Summit.

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Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more)

Startup Lessons Learned

► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you? Take a look and let me know what you think.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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Startups and small biz at SXSW: ideas on how to spend your time at the conference!

crowdSPRING Blog

We should have a really nice crowd of entrepreneurs, designers, and funders there and expect a great discussion. 11:00 AM: The Right Way to Wireframe, Part 1 Ballroom E – This session will provide a step-by-step explanation of how four designers in the User Experience space approach wireframes.

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