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How A New Software Could Change The Travel Industry Forever 

YoungUpstarts

One of the major issues that small travel operators face is the payment process. Payment software and gateways are usually very expensive and complex to use. With a new payment software that is designed specifically for these smaller companies, they get a chance to compete online with the mega travel companies. This is what can shift the whole dynamic in the travel industry forever, similarly to when Airbnb allowed independent homeowners become mini hotels around the globe.

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An entrepreneur’s guide to Aruba’s startup scene

The Next Web

Many people dream of building a business. Many others dream of living on a sunny island. But those who dream of doing both need look no further than Aruba. Located just 18 miles off the coast of Venezuela, the tiny Caribbean island has been making serious waves over the past few years. But unlike its neighbor which has made headlines for its economic, political, and social crises, Aruba has been in the spotlight for a different reason: innovation.

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Rock Your Business By Marketing It This Summer

YoungUpstarts

by Diana Ennen, President of Virtual Word Publishing and author of “ Virtual Assistant, The Series: Become a Highly Successful, Sought After VA “. Summer is often a time when things slow down a bit. Between vacations, holidays, and just wanting that relaxed pace, more and more clients require less time. What’s good is that means more time for you to cha chill too.

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Inside Amazon’s plan to dominate advertising business in 2019

The Next Web

Amazon’s unrelenting efficiency, obsession with automation, and brutal pricing strategies have helped it disrupt or dominate industry after industry, which began with books way back in 1997. Over the next year, it’s bringing those tactics to bear on the organization’s latest target: the advertising industry. To thrust its way into a sector that is overwhelmingly controlled by Google and Facebook, Amazon is making brazen new moves into self-serve programmatic advertising.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Trademark or Copyright – Which Does Your Small Business Need?

YoungUpstarts

by Xavier Morales. When you own a small business, there are countless decisions you need to make. “When do we need a full time HR person?” and “Should we lease space, or look to purchase?” are some of the common issues I see other small business owners asking themselves. Eventually, you’ll likely find yourself facing another question: “Do we need a trademark or copyright for our products?

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Co-marketing: What is it, and what can it do for your business?

The Next Web

How can we make our company grow faster than the day before? That thought crosses my head on a daily basis. I’m the Head of Marketing at company whose business model is B2B2C, so our success comes down to how well our partner companies are doing. It’s not an easy thing to grow a company, but I want to share an approach with you that has helped some our partners grow, in hopes that you are able to replicate it.

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3 Benefits of a Hard Money Loan

The Startup Magazine

A hard money loan is just a loan based on assets. People who tend to go for this type of loan are real estate investors who want to buy a property, refurbish it, and sell it. It can also be used by entrepreneurs starting a business if they have other assets. The asset you wish to purchase acts as collateral, which means that lenders will sell it if you are unable to pay the loan back in time.

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How To Rebrand & Re-Market Your Ecommerce Site For The Summer

YoungUpstarts

It’s summertime, and the livin’ is easy. Folks are ditching jeans for shorts and short days inside for long days by the pool. Grey skies are turning blue and the whole world feels fresh and new. Summer is a season full of fun and fresh ideas. Shouldn’t your ecommerce store match the vernal experience? Here’s how to rebrand and re-marketing your ecommerce site for summertime sales.

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5 Reasons to Have Your Property Evaluated

The Startup Magazine

When it comes to buying or selling a house or any other property, it is always important to figure out its real value. The reason is that you get an accurate measure of the value of your property or one that you want to purchase. In an open and highly competitive real estate marketplace, it becomes necessary to evaluate your property so that you do not undervalue or oversell it.

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SXSW PanelPicker Tip #7: Cannabusiness

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: July 2, 2018 The SXSW PanelPicker interface is now accepting creative, innovative, forwarding-thinking speaking proposals for the March 2019 event in Austin. If you have an idea that fits these parameters, then stay tuned to this space through the July 20 deadline as we explore 25 tips for having the most success in this process.

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4 Marketing Mistakes You Can Easily Turn into Marketing Masterpieces

The Startup Magazine

Everybody makes mistakes. When it comes to marketing, especially social marketing, few get it perfectly right out of the gate. The trick is to make mistakes you can learn from and correct. There is a fatal variety of mistake from which there is no return. While some few companies seem to be able to bounce back from almost anything, you want to avoid the following missteps: Criminal activity – If you are caught embezzling, or otherwise misappropriating money, you will have a trust issue fo