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Lessons Learned on Mashable today

Startup Lessons Learned

Here in Tampa, our biggest challenge is convincing the regions technology "leadership" that grassroots economic development is a good thing. Instead spending hundreds of millions of dollars to lure the next big thing to town in the hope they will turn Tampa into the next tech center. January 2, 2009 11:54 AM Daniel Davie said.

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9 Strategies to Increase Your Food Truck Revenue

Up and Running

Think Tampa, Florida’s I Wanna Wok or Portland, Oregon’s Kim Jong Grillin, both of which nailed their concept by choosing memorable, funny names, distinctive logos and branding, and a cohesive menu that reflects their brand. What does it mean to have a “strong concept?” Cater weddings, parties, and office events.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Tampa Bay community and make a difference in people’s lives. My engineering career-as a researcher at Lucent Technologies’ Bell Labs, before I started Flarion-had been in communications and information theory, so I’d expected to stay involved in those technologies. Thanks to Brent Kraus, Ella Bing ! #37

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30 Entrepreneurs Share What Makes Their Business Unique

Hearpreneur

This essentially forces you to forgo 3PL’s due to the high cost of the logistics, and the technology behind recommendation engines aren’t reliable enough to automate the process. Thanks to Christina Campbell, The Mommy Spot Tampa ! The concept of it is simple enough – but operationally intensive.

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5 patterns behind successful billion-dollar consumer Web companies

The Next Web

At the other end of the spectrum, Shazam responded to a straightforward practical need for a tune-recognition search engine in a touch. He repeatedly sent the engineers back to the drawing board until they came up with the world’s first single-button MP3 player. They follow the habits they’ve learned.”. Now that was extreme!

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Transcript of Want to Be Like Amazon?

Duct Tape Marketing

He is a long time featured keynote speaker for things such as search engine optimization and conversion rate optimization, and I’ve had him on the show a couple of times, some of you may recall waiting for your cat to bark… maybe a call to action definitely [buyer legends 00:53] and a number of other books.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Dedicated To Steve Jobs, Reinforcing Mission To Restructure Capitalism

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She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dan Stewart, from Tampa/St. She writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.