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2 Real Time-Saving Hacks That Every Entrepreneur Should Know

YoungUpstarts

When Bill Gates was asked by a student at Nebraska State what superpower he would want to have, Gates famously replied, “Being able to read super-fast”. Check email only twice a day. The intent behind picking up the phone and making a call is very different to sending an email or having a live chat on my website. Speed-reading.

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How to Navigate the New Era of Customer Expectations

Duct Tape Marketing

Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John (00:08): Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. They're from Nebraska, right? Did he change his email address? I won't even ask you for your email address. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! This is John Jantsch.

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Your network is bigger than you think

Reid Hoffman

In 1967, Psychologist Stanley Milgram and his student Jeffrey Travers conducted a famous study in which they asked a couple hundred people in Nebraska to mail a letter to someone they knew personally who might in turn know a target stockbroker in Massachusetts. But is the world actually that small?

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Reflecting on 9/11

Feld Thoughts

Email flowed fast and furiously for a little while and as I surfed the net and watched TV from my hotel room in midtown, I got more and more freaked out. Early in the afternoon I found out via email that my friend Paul Berberian, who was the CEO of Raindance (I was on the board) was in town with Nick Cuccaro, his CFO.

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Open to All: Scholarships for The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

Sourabh: I''m a student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and part of the local community of entrepreneurs and startup folks in Lincoln and Nebraska. Because I''m a student, I emailed the organizers to see if there was any way I could attend by volunteering.

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After 20 years: Updating the Berkus Method of valuation

Berkonomics

Email readers, continue here…] The Berkus Method assigns a number, a financial valuation, to each of four major elements of risk faced by all young companies – after crediting the entrepreneur some basic value for the quality and potential of the idea itself. Today, for me, that hurdle number is $20 million.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

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