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Start Up and Stay Up – How Small Businesses Survive & Thrive

The Startup Magazine

I started my Philadelphia area home appraising business in 2006. This software will also help you create the customer email list you will use to notify former clients or customers of special promotions or sales. If you offer a service, you might offer cashback for each referred customer. People read reviews. Be creative.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Sapient

Austin Startup

Instead, an idea for smart outlets, conceived while he was still a student at University of Pennsylvania, evolved into Sapient Industries, based in Philadelphia, Penn., Long Range Wide Access Network (LoRaWAN) technology, more frequently known as “LoRa.” and launched in April 2017. Which living person do you most admire and why?

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Why Radical Humility is Key to Success

Duct Tape Marketing

He is a global business celebrity, speaker, best-selling author, and Chairman and CEO of C-Suite Network, home of the world’s most trusted network of C-Suite leaders. He is a global business celebrity speaker, bestselling author and chairman, and CEO of C-Suite Network, home of the world's most trusted network of c-suite leaders.

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Innovating Municipal Government Culture

Steve Blank

Widder is the Vice President of Innovation and holds the Steve Blank Innovation Chair at Philadelphia University. He’s helping city government in Philadelphia become more innovative by applying Lean startup methods and Philadelphia University’s innovation curriculum. Philadelphia University Undergraduate Curriculum.

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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

Both Sides of the Table

When Evan Rifkin of.App/Ads launched a new ad network for iPhone (and soon to be other devices) applications I knew he would have a very strong offering out of the box. He’s built two ad network companies – he knows what he’s doing. So the whole customer development cycle is very streamlined.

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Accelerator Spotlight: Waivr

View from Seed

Brenna Curran (BC): Waivr is modernizing the 60+ year old recurring payments infrastructure by enabling merchants to transact through the Real-Time Payments network, delivering lower transaction costs, eliminating bounce rates, and providing instant fund disbursement to merchants. RH: Who are your customers?

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Here’s Why We Fell in Love with Draft

Both Sides of the Table

Greg knows consumer businesses and customers, which has added tremendously to our team where I admittedly have more of a background in enterprise software, data and online video. And social networks enabled rapid growth and also the ability to more easily find and play with friends or make new ones. But it still takes time.