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The Care And Feeding Of A Startup

YoungUpstarts

A startup is more like Typo Keyboards, which recently engaged ISBX as its software engineering team to help it grow rapidly enough to fill an urgent market demand for Apple’s iPhone 6 buyers. Leverage the power of the Internet to reach a global audience. Startups play in a bigger field.

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5 Lessons Learned Launching a Startup With No Plan, No Cash, and No MBA

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I had some limited knowledge about search engine marketing, but knew nothing about marketing in a more general sense. When I started, I knew enough about internet marketing, SEO, and maintaining a website to get the company off the ground. We’d never had anyone pay us for a product or a service.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

Butte, Montana was a copper mining town. To have a positive impact in the field of parenting, one of the biggest niches on the Internet, we needed a catchy and welcoming name. Our company is called Regex SEO, where regex stands for regular expression and SEO obviously for search engine optimization. 5- Catchy and welcoming name.

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37 Entrepreneurs Share Their Favorite Inspirational Business Quote

Hearpreneur

When I proclaimed I was going to change the population with my reverse-engineered online dating business, serial entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner, Mark Cuban, rolled his eyes, called me delusional and immediately snapped, “I’m out.” Image Credit: Lori Cheek. Image Credit: Bryan Koontz.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

After creating many successful start-ups- from internet fashion companies to home market businesses- I spent several years researching a category that intrigued me from a health-standpoint. And being from Montana, I also wanted a belt that could transition to all of my active lifestyle endeavors. Image Credit: Gail Levy.

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

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Engineering & Accounting Svcs. INTERNET BUSINESSES. General Internet. - Computer And Internet. Internet Services. . - Amusement & Recreation. Auto Repair, Parts & Services. Beauty Salons, Barber Shops. Computer & Software Services. Drycleaning/Laundry Services. Educational Services. Legal Services.

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Venture Capital in the Rockies Winter 2010 Unveils Promising Growth Companies Ahead of Conference

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The VCIR Winter 2010 conference will be held at the Park Hyatt in Beaver Creek, Colorado, February 23-25, showcasing early-growth companies from Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. RavenBrick delivers innovative solar-controlled windows, which reduce energy costs by up to 50 percent.