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The Remarkability Formula For Small Business Owners

Duct Tape Marketing

Each episode is designed to spark ideas you can put into practice for your agency today. Rich is founder and president of flyte new media, a digital agency in Portland, Maine, that’s been in business for over 24 years. Check out the new Spark Lab Consulting website here !

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs (2018)

crowdSPRING Blog

William Hurley, the co-founder of Honest Dollar, an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. Portland, OR. Columbus, OH.

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Strideline Puts City Skylines On Your Socks

YoungUpstarts

Founded by Riley Goodman and Jake Director in 2009 when they were both high school seniors in a Seattle school, Strideline makes a range of crew socks that come with a design of city skylines. The original design featuring the Seattle city skyline sold out in three weeks when it was first launched.

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Q3 2022 Portfolio in Review

Version One Ventures

We recently wrote about why we’re so excited about Bikky and Abhinav Kapur (a mission-driven founder!). . Lolli was honoured by Fast Company as one of the best-designed finance apps of 2022, as chosen by Fast Company editors and an expert jury of design professionals as part of Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Awards.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: How Do You Catalyze A Region's Entrepreneurship?

ReadWriteStart

Seattle, Portland, Austin, New York City and Chicago have come up in the U.S. First up, Manik Kinra from Bangalore, India, pitched Jade Magnet , a crowd sourcing platform for creative services like logo design, website development, animation, video production, etc. Over the last few years, however, several geographies have come up.

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How to Out Amazon, Amazon

Both Sides of the Table

The founder of Parachute, Ariel Kaye , had a clear vision for what she wanted to disrupt and how she thought she could do it. better than anybody we had spoke with and she had the marketing chops to know how to communicate this to her market once she designed & built her products. Ariel understood her customer?—?the

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114 Entrepreneurs On 1 Train For 8 Hours Pitching Ideas

ReadWriteStart

That's exactly the challenge posed by Geeks on a Train , a veritable Nerd Express from Portland, Ore., The final headcount was a raucous, adventuresome 100+ founders, investors, entrepreneurs, bloggers, developers and designers. to Vancouver, where passengers "rethink business" among like-minded entrepreneurs and investors.

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