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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

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How about in the last 12 months deals announced with Dwolla (Iowa) and Pollenware (Kansas City). It’s a very smartly designed debenture program. If you’re working with early-stage companies you need to be spending quality time with them which means you need to be nearby. Angry Birds? Otherwise, good luck!

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Transcript of Crafting Growth-Focused Content for Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

” And she’s like, “Well, this web design thing is actually pretty interesting. I then moved my family to Kansas to be a music guy out there. ” Lance Cummins: So for us, we decided to call it growth content because it is content specifically designed to grow organic traffic. Have you thought about that?”

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Transcript of How to Build a Community Around Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

In Kansas City. But in the early stages it does require a reasonable chunk of work. .” That email can buy you another six months of interest and passion, because it taps into that need for validation that we tend to have. Jono Bacon: So for example, if you imagine, John, that you walked down your local high street, right?

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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Or the growth of Dwolla in Iowa or C2FO being built in Kansas City? Cincinnati has had the accelerator The Brandery for several years, which caters to the great strengths of design and brand management that are dominant in this city. 20 years ago could you have imagined ExactTarget becoming a multi-billion company in Indianapolis?

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The Fantastical, Stupendous, Wonkariffic Tale of How Ample Hills Creamery Raised a $4 Million Venture Capital Round

This is going to be BIG.

First off, you have to think of Ample Hills as a destination--and it was designed that way. Spotting the order, Brian included a postcard illustrated by their designer of Walt the Cow, their mascot, in a Mickey shirt, thanking him for the order. It fits just as well into Gowanus, Brooklyn as it does Iowa, Kansas, and Wyoming.