Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

Whether you pull off unique marketing stunts, have products which need no introduction or style yourself as an innovative CEO, having a defining quality is what customers will notice. #1 Working at a mighty mid-sized agency provides employees the unique opportunity to grow within their positions and assume leadership roles.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 4, 2017

If you think you might be paying too much for your service and don’t feel like dealing with Comcast’s customer service, let Trim’s robot give it a shot. Geekwire named Outreach one of the top 10 transformational Seattle startups , and Top Hat got some great press from the Globe and Mail and Financial Post for its success in the Edtech market.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

When it became clear that waiting for government funding and support would take weeks, if not months, Lenore instead looked to her community for both, using her experience with the layoffs and her expertise as a small business owner to solve two of the massive problems crashing over our society. Lenore Estrada : Thanks.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

But I know when we enter the real world, A, that’s not everybody, and then B, we have work to do, results to get, clients or customers to serve. Klaviyo helps you build meaningful customer relationships by listening and understanding queues from your customers. It’s embedded in this idea of like the mystical muse.

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Transformify

AUGUST 5, 2019

Her background includes 20 years of HR, customer service and business leadership – an ideal balance of human capital and business perspective. In her current role, MJ works to align the customer and employee experience with PEMCO’s brand aspirations. It’s woven into our workplace, marketplace and communities.

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Up and Running

APRIL 19, 2016

If you don’t have buy-in from your partners, your employees, and your customers, you just went through a whole lot of something for a whole lot of nothing. Tip #2: Include your employees. The best rebrands come from the bottom up and get all employees involved. Third, internal communications radically improved.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 23, 2018

They can’t rely on existing markets or customer awareness to help generate interest. Customers can be reluctant to try something they don’t understand or they haven’t seen before. It started with a huge amount of hype, nearly 40 employees, and an equally large amount of cash: $41 million. business environment.

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Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 25, 2018

Amazon announced they’re going to be creating a second headquarters to rival their current HQ in Seattle, and they issued a gigantic RFP to the nation’s cities to determine which city will give them the best deals and tax incentives be the best for their employees and customers. Well, I’m not.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

The city’s close proximity to major business centers like Seattle and Silicon Valley is another notable benefit, enabling a vibrant flow of talent between cities up and down the west coast. Edmonton also has a number of high-quality post-secondary schools that continually add many highly-skilled employees to the job market.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. Our community colleges are excellent as well, including the Alamo Colleges, Austin Community College, the Dallas College and the Lone Star Community College. More than 50 Fortune 500 companies are headquartered in Texas and six of the Fortune 50.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2010

entrepreneurial community, which was vibrant but small. We’ve done this through our seed investments as well as through our activity at TechStars, starting in Boulder, then expanding to Boston, Seattle and New York. Boulder’s population is just 100,000. So it seemed logical to organize some of our thoughts into a book.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

The city’s close proximity to major business centers like Seattle and Silicon Valley is another notable benefit, enabling a vibrant flow of talent between cities up and down the west coast. Edmonton also has a number of high-quality post-secondary schools that continually add many highly-skilled employees to the job market.

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Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2015

He was refurbishing classic and custom furniture for a condominium he’d bought for himself in his hometown of Seattle, when he realized he’d accumulated rather a lot of scrap lumber. I took my prototype to the Independent Garden Center Show in Chicago, and I introduced it to the gardener community, and people liked them.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2016

Philanthropy (community and charitable endeavors, fundraising). Even some employee engagement and relations activities can come under the heading of public relations when the intent is to improve relationships and the probability exists that the program will impact public perception in some way. Company brochures. Newsletters.

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

The death of Memamp, or ‘Reddit’s first employee’ The people that you meet on a program such as Y Combinator can be as important, if not more so, than the program itself. I was reddit’s first employee about 2 months later,” Chris tells me. “I’ve never thought about that,” Mikhail told me when I asked him about it. “It

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I don’t actually have any employees. I have a few contractors to do the technical side of my work and a customer support person, but that’s it. I didn’t have that contractor doing customer support. Last year I spent eight months traveling around the world, and throughout that entire time I was running my business.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I grant you, it’s not like Coupa Cafe in Palo Alto – but there is a burgeoning tech community much as you’d find in NYC these days. In LA you can attract a great team to build out your first 30-50 employees. If you hit a groove on funding and customer growth it does become a challenge to ramp quickly.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Joel moved to Seattle, and worked at Microsoft for three years as a program manager on Excel 4.0 Lesson: You dn’t want your customers to feel locked into using your software. It helps with sales cycles because customers know that they can switch away if they so choose. Upon graduating, he went to work at Microsoft.

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