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Culture Isn’t Everything: 3 (Other) Traits Vital To Your Business’s Success

YoungUpstarts

It’s how your company operates internally, but it has no allegiance to the core of your business: making money and growing at a steady pace. Instead, focus on these three traits to help your small business blossom: 1. Set aside time to review metrics, evaluate clientele, or whittle down precise goals for the future.

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“Why give up that much equity for an amount we could raise other ways?:” SMB Tech Talk from ArtJamz

Hunter Walker

This week I’ll be running a series of Five Question interviews with small businesses which were facilitated by BondStreet , a SMB lending platform (we’re investors). HW: All of the social platforms claim to help small businesses and brands amplify their voice, find their customers. Everything else is tech.

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“Why give up that much equity for an amount we could raise other ways?:” SMB Tech Talk from ArtJamz

Hunter Walker

This week I’ll be running a series of Five Question interviews with small businesses which were facilitated by BondStreet , a SMB lending platform (we’re investors). HW: All of the social platforms claim to help small businesses and brands amplify their voice, find their customers. Everything else is tech.

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Presidential Innovation Fellows, round two

Startup Lessons Learned

In particular, small businesses and exporters have a fundamental problem navigating the Federal Government’s myriad resources. In Round 1 of the PIF program, the RFP-EZ team opened the door to small businesses by building a platform for small, creative businesses to more effectively sell to the Federal Government.

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Entrepreneur Fills a Market Void by Building Female-Focused Co-Working Spaces

Hearpreneur

I found myself pushed into entrepreneurship after being laid off from a Marketing Director position with a San Diego based high tech company in 2003. I initially thought about how I might use the space for my own marketing strategy business and quickly realized a thirty-something woman was not their target demographic.

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2 Out-Of-The-Box Ways To Generate Referrals

Duct Tape Marketing

The Referral Engine: Teaching Your Business to Market Itself. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Love to hear your feedback, love your reviews and testimonials, uh, on the show. They'd hear, you know, some small business topic and it, you know, it doesn't always have to be marketing in my case.

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Think Big, Start Small: The Story of a Startup

Up and Running

A business with simple origins but big plans. Him and his team of technically-minded co-founders began with just a grant and the advisory help of the MBA faculty at American University. Tim tells me that before joining the MBA program, he has never had experience owning or running a business. Where do you go from here?