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5 Ways To Get Beyond Early Adopters For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Unfortunately, even today many engineers and product developers believe that marketing is just for advertisements. Engineers and early adopters always love more options, even if some are esoteric or rarely used. Offer a default simplified path as well as a detailed path.

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Odis Jones Explains How to Strengthen Your Rural Community’s Economy

The Startup Magazine

Paducah, Kentucky followed this method by constructing an identity that is connected to the Ohio River and its remarkable history. Leaders in Paducah, Kentucky spawned a home purchase program that strived to build an artistic community. Vacant homes and foreclosed buildings were purchased by the town.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain The Future Trends They See in Their Industry

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Luke Smith, We Buy Property In Kentucky ! #4-Rise However, to succeed with people who aren’t trained engineers, RPA software tools must be intuitive and easy to use. 4-Rise of individuals deciding to launch startups. Photo Credit: Deborah Sweeney. Thanks to Harel Tayeb, Kryon Systems ! #17- Photo Credit: Ashwin Sokke.

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How to Successfully Close Customers as a First Time Startup CEO

Lightspeed Venture Partners

If you think that you can use your pre-packaged pitch deck that Marketing put together last year, your chances of winning the deal are no better than betting on a random horse at the Kentucky Derby. We knew it would be a long slog for either startup to win the deal so we could use any advantage we could get.

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Small Business Calendar of Events

Up and Running

8th Annual Kentucky Innovation and Entrepreneurship Conference: The Annual Kentucky Innovation and Entrepreneurship Conference (8th KIEC) will bring together distinguished speakers, tech-based economic development practitioners, researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs, students and postdoctoral fellows.

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Congrats to Backupify! A Great Exit Story for the First Company I Ever Backed

This is going to be BIG.

It was written by a guy about my age down in Louisville, Kentucky. A former engineer, Rob was a great writer and a thoughtful student of management. Datto is an R&D company at heart, and the plan is to double the size of the Backupify engineering team, and accelerate our vision of supporting all your cloud apps.

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Naming Your Business: Process and Pitfalls

The Startup Magazine

Acura” has no definition but suggests precision engineering, according to Entrepreneur. This is why Minnesota Manufacturing and Mining became 3M in 2002 and why Kentucky Fried Chicken adopted KFC in 1991. Avoid made up words or acronyms with no apparent meaning. Anything too obscure will be a problem for your audience.

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