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When The Mobile Evolution Turns To Revolution

YoungUpstarts

The advent of mobile platforms has rendered all of those tools passé. We are now a mobile society and the proliferation of smartphones and tablets has given rise to a new paradigm in digital marketing: the mobile app. New releases can be distributed and sold directly to the consumer via the mobile app.

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5 Free Platforms Entrepreneurs Should Be Using To Manage And Streamline Their Business

YoungUpstarts

There are many helpful resources for budding entrepreneurs and small business owners and my first recommendation is to start with the U.S. As an entrepreneur I’ve found the below platforms extremely helpful, and best of all, they’re free. Hootsuite is a great resource for the budding entrepreneur or new business.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 32: Evangelos Simoudis and Ashok Srivastava

Steve Blank

How to make corporate innovation work and drive success in startups were the topics of discussion with the guests on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. Today Evangelos invests in early- and growth-stage companies focusing on the enterprise in the areas of data and analytics, SaaS applications, and mobility.

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Need To Know: Answers To The Questions That Every First-Time App Developer Asks

YoungUpstarts

Whether you’re an entrepreneur, small business owner, or you just have an idea for an app, you’re first course of action should be to determine whether or not there is market demand for your app, and you can do this through your own primary research with little to no cost incurred save for the effort you devote to educating yourself.

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Beyond the Lemonade Stand: How to Teach High School Students Lean Startups

Steve Blank

. — Teaching students to think like entrepreneurs not accountants. We wanted to teach our students how to think like entrepreneurs not accountants. For the second startup, we chose a year-old web/mobile startup whose market is college bound teens, with a founder who had skipped the initial customer validation process.

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How Mobile Payment Will Impact The Growth Of Mobile Commerce This Holiday Season

YoungUpstarts

The recent release of Apple Pay, the mobile payment service available on the iPhone 6, gives us a window into how consumers will make their purchases. Apple Pay is just one mobile payment option. That means embracing the trend toward quicker, and in some cases more secure, mobile payment options.

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Making Good Decisions Still Means You're Sometimes Wrong.

Agile VC

One of the hardest things for me as a VC remains telling entrepreneurs I like and respect that we’re passing on their investment round. I often tell these entrepreneurs that I genuinely hope they prove us wrong, and are wildly successful with their startup. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.