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The One Word That Shouldn’t Exist in an Entrepreneur’s Vocabulary

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She was president of the UJA in Sacramento. There were online tools to book this stuff but the Internet booking sites were early. Now let me walk you through a broader story because avoidance of the word in and of itself will seem cliche. Stay with me. When I was little I had a role model for entrepreneurship – my mom.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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By 2006 he had received proper authorization to move back to the US to join a company in the town I grew up in: Sacramento, California. I certainly don’t want the next generation of iPad-like innovation to come “with an Internet nanny filter called Green Dam Youth Escort.&# Do you? He spent a bunch of this time in Canada.

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SXSW Startups: Fantag

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Fantag is based in Sacramento. Sacramento has a thriving startup ecosystem with the San Francisco Bay Area just an hour and half by car or train to reach investors and partners. Fantag was started in San Jose and moved to Sacramento to take advantage of this ecosystem. Tell us about the startup scene there. Sleeping more!

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How To Build An Online Business Community That Markets For You

YoungUpstarts

by Craig de Borba, founder of Onpoint Internet Marketing. Craig de Borba is the founder of Onpoint Internet Marketing, a Sacramento based SEO company driving more traffic and conversions to local businesses since 2010. If you’re starting a business and wondering how you can generate momentum, you’ve come to the right place.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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She was president of the UJA in Sacramento – the United Jewish Appeal. Then she opened a bakery and a second bakery and then a restaurant – in Sacramento. By the way, this was still pre-Netscape, pre-Internet. So I joined this group called Network Solutions, we did computer networking, the predecessor to the internet.

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Principles For Low-Budget Marketing Strategies Every Startup Should Know

YoungUpstarts

Even placing a lemonade stand under the inclement sun of Sacramento at 2:00 pm, just after the finish line of a marathon, is understanding a target necessities, for example. But you don’t necessarily need a big bank account for creating a successful project. Got the target, but not the budget.

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Here is Why Non-Obvious Startup Ideas Can Yield the Largest Results

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It has become so synonymous with Internet companies that the French have invented a disdainful term including Amazon: “les GAFA,” which they refer to as Google-Apple-Facebook-Amazon to talk about American dominance of the Internet. It is a household name. How valuable are these legacy businesses?