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12 Questions: Meet Connie Carlson (USA)

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Connie lives and works in Northern Minnesota. My name is Connie Carlson also known as Iconic Design. My husband of 23 years and 22 year old son and I live in beautiful Northern Minnesota and own a small hobby farm in the country, close to beautiful Lake Superior. How did you become interested in design?

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Retail Reimagined: 9 Trends for the Future of Physical Retail

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2021 will see a boom in retail redevelopment, high speed internet and commerce adoption, deferred spending, and creator-driven dynamism. "Années Before the pandemic hit, Minnesota brand TC Running had two brick-and-mortar stores and zero ecommerce presence. "Années Folles" — Web Smith (@web) December 27, 2020.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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INTERNET BUSINESSES. General Internet. - Web Design/Tech Services. Computer And Internet. Internet Services. . - Pet Care & Grooming. Social Services. Storage & Warehousing. Travel Agencies. Business Services (B2B). Consumer Services (B2C). Domain Name/Basic Site. ISP/ASP Services. Software. - Connecticut.

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10 Tips for Startups and Small Businesses on Naming Your Company

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If you need help or simply don’t have the time (it took us nearly 50 hours to name “crowdSPRING&# ), you can leverage crowdSPRING’s community of more than 64,000 designers and writers to come up with your company name or a product name. One great example is Minnesota Manufacturing and Mining. Avoid obscure words.

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Transcript of How Reducing Friction Increases Revenue

Duct Tape Marketing

I have an internet cable provider and I have a satellite TV provider and they both kind of fall into that category of not getting it, making their experience really high friction. On my Internet provider, I can only go back six months. It’s that they realize how simple and powerful experiences can be. Now that makes no sense.

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12 Questions: Meet Lewis Agrell (USA)

crowdSPRING Blog

I was born in Minnesota, but wanderlust struck after graduating from the University of Minnesota. I worked as the Chief Artist for the New York Times Company in Sarasota, Florida, for ten years, and had the opportunity to work as both an illustrator and a designer. Which of your designs are your favorites and why?

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Finding Your Co-Founders

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In consumer internet, that usually means one front-end user-facing developer, one back-end server-side developer, and ultimately a business person (details will come in a later post). It brings together students from both the undergraduate and graduate levels, across disciplines such as design, computer science and business.