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

Both Sides of the Table

How about in the last 12 months deals announced with Dwolla (Iowa) and Pollenware (Kansas City). It’s a very smartly designed debenture program. From startup Rovio in Finland. Think USV is only invested around Union Square in NYC? I met the Pollenware team myself – they were KILLER.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Today I own and manage a company specifically designed to help people grow their portfolios. After working in architecture, furniture and design for 15 years, I came up with an idea that lead me into the NYC World of Tech and am now solving missed connections. You’re abandoned by partners you once relied upon.

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9 Unlikely Entrepreneurs Who Changed The Market

YoungUpstarts

This risky decision to leave school truly paid off when Gates and Allen partnered up to create Microsoft in 1975. He went on to get his PhD at Stanford University and met his future business partner Page there. In 1919, Disney was fired from his job at the Kansas City Star because he lacked imaginative ideas. Henry Ford.

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10 Reasons Podcast Guesting is the #1 Killer Content Marketing Tactic of All Time

Duct Tape Marketing

That means legit SEO companies have become web designers, social media strategists, reputation managers and yes, content marketers. Podcast guesting is so valuable, in fact, that I partnered with John Jantsch to create a podcast booking service called Podcast Bookers. Putting My Money Where My Podcasting Mouth Is.

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SXSW Startups: Healium

Austin Startup

Louis and Kansas City in the “silicon prairie.” My co-founder, Dr. Jeff Tarrant, was my husband’s business partner when they had a psychology practice together. Ricky Rockley, our XR Design lead, is a phenomenal artist who likes to sketch and create outside of a game engine. Healium is currently based in Columbia, MO.

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Ultralight Startups? Startups on a Shoestring!

Campus Entrepreneurship

His $2,200 cash investment went mainly to hire a programmer from India to help create the Web-based tools that visitors use to design and order their shirts. Instead, his genius has been to attract customers to ooShirts by using tactics that increase his ranking in free searches for terms like “custom T-shirts.&#

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Purposeful Growth: The New Revolution For Business Success

Duct Tape Marketing

You've got your business partners, which could include shareholders if you're pub publicly traded, like several companies I've been part of are. (05:20): And, you know, I'm blessed to live here in Kansas City and we have the Kansas City Chiefs, and we just won the Super Bowl. John Jantsch (22:04): Awesome.