Up and Running

MARCH 13, 2013

I even practiced pitching to a complete stranger, while taking a leak in a truck stop bathroom in a town called Iowa, Louisiana. I’m sure they know all about crowdfunding in Iowa, LA. It reminded me of the movie 8-Mile , when Eminem’s character, a freestyle rapper named B. I was ready to rock this pitch.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 3, 2011

Driving through Iowa, Indiana or southern Illinois, they’re pretty hard to miss towering and turning on the horizon. In contrast, the only solar panel I’ve seen in real life was in Forest City, Iowa, a town I’d be hard-pressed to find a handful of people who have heard of it. now that’s staggering. Exciting times.

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Seeing Both Sides

DECEMBER 1, 2014

His name was Jordan Fliegel and, although his 6 foot 7 inches frame stood out amongst the crowd of nerds and middle aged investors, he was an anonymous outsider that day. Since then, Jordan''s company, CoachUp , has secured venture capital funding from a local big name firm (General Catalyst) and grown into a local success story.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 28, 2012

Last week a recent University of Iowa grad and, to this point, unknown journalist named Cathryn Sloan penned an article for the nextgen Journal titled Why Every Social Media Manager Should Be Under 25. 598 comments at this writing).

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 25, 2014

Before I go any further, perhaps I should clarify what exactly a podcast is, because the name “podcast” actually is no longer a good way of describing it. What’s a Podcast? You see, a podcast is basically a means of distributing content to an audience. Therefore, all barriers to entry are essentially removed.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2017

TJ Juskiewicz is the director of RAGBRAI, a seven-day bicycle ride across the state of Iowa. There are different insurance requirements, financing issues to work through and extensive technical product training, just to name a few. Learn more about TJ and the ride here: [link].

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

T ool: Curalate URL: Curalate.com What it does: Monitors and measures traffic from “visual-based platforms”—namely (for now, at least) Pinterest. First Name. Company Name. * and the impact of those for our traffic.” Erin Hoskins, Senior Marketing Director, New Media, Meredit h. Industry Offers & Promotions. Digital Editions.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2017

Online directories are sites that scrape the Internet looking for businesses’ information – at a minimum they’ll include a company’s name, address and phone number (NAP) — to pull into their master database of businesses. The modern-day online equivalent of phone books are online business directories (a.k.a. Citation’ sites.).

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2017

TJ Juskiewicz is the director of RAGBRAI, a seven-day bicycle ride across the state of Iowa. There are different insurance requirements, financing issues to work through and extensive technical product training, just to name a few. Learn more about TJ and the ride here: [link].

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2017

TJ Juskiewicz is the director of RAGBRAI, a seven-day bicycle ride across the state of Iowa. There are different insurance requirements, financing issues to work through and extensive technical product training, just to name a few. Learn more about TJ and the ride here: [link].

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 12, 2018

At 18, he headed to University of Iowa to study dentistry. Aristotle still splits time between, Greece, Iowa, and Chicago, and refers to himself as “Greek born, city raised, and corn fed.” The name Ellison is a play on the Greek word for the sun, “Elios”. “Who How did you come up with your business name?

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 7, 2015

How much persuasion involved in convincing a farmer that lives in Iowa to purchase an app that predicts rainfall will be far different than a surfer who lives in LA. There is meant to be one overriding call to action – namely, signing up for an account. Breaking the copy down, point by point.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

NAME Comcast. NAME Verizon Communications. NAME Yahoo. NAME Shikhar Ghosh. NAME Toby Stuart. NAME Daniel Dreymann. NAME Charles Holloway. NAME David Cowan. Domain Name/Basic Site. Why use your real name? We require the use of your full name to authenticate your identity.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

While you might be doing great in terms of direct revenue impact of your website, pause and consider what in God's name is happening to that other 98.3% "unconverted" traffic on your site? Name, a unique persistent customer id (Geek ID), the keyword the person came on and their underwear size. Well just assume. :).

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Or the growth of Dwolla in Iowa or C2FO being built in Kansas City? I’ve been very public about how much I think the term “Silicon” in front of every city name is a waste. 20 years ago could you have imagined ExactTarget becoming a multi-billion company in Indianapolis? Welcome to the future.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 6, 2014

I do think the frontier feel of Ello, like many other startup networks, has great appeal for pioneers, but in order to make it you’ve eventually got to appeal to the people of Iowa. This is not a slam to my Iowa readers, it’s a nod to your ability to pick presidents!). Social Media Diaspora Ello WhatsApp'

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

When the Mets got to the World Series, they release a kettle corn flavored ice cream with blue and orange M&Ms and a contest on social media around naming the ice cream. It fits just as well into Gowanus, Brooklyn as it does Iowa, Kansas, and Wyoming. Creativity is at the heart of everything they do. That's Ample Hills.

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2016

In California, Washington, Hawaii, Iowa, and Florida, you’ll need a Seller of Travel license. Naming your business and applying for a Federal Tax ID number. You’ll also want to formally name your business, which involves filing a DBA, or a “doing business as.” The Complete Guide to Registering Your Business Name.

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Up and Running

MAY 24, 2013

Portland, Ore has become “Silicon Forest,” New Orleans is “Silicon Bayou,” and even Iowa is taking on the name “Silcorn Valley.” All silicon everything: Entrepreneur put together an infographic showing how California isn’t the only startup mecca in the United States anymore.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

They point out that of 123 statements about typography in Burt’s book, only three – 3 – were either supported by data or by reference to named sources (Rooum, 1981; Hartley and Rooum, 1983; in Lund, 1995 ). Iowa: Iowa State University Press. Required fields are marked * Name *. Sassoon, R. Spencer, H.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

I do find this recent blog post by Eugene Wallingford, a computer science professor at the University of Northern Iowa to be worth reading as well. Brian Wetjen These comments sum up most of your real-world considerations. It's titled: I Just Need a Programmer [link] llingf/. Avdi Grimm , Been doing web development in Ruby on.

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VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2010

Israel’s Makhteshim Agan, the world’s biggest generic agrochemical maker, is acquiring Iowa-based Albaugh, a leading US producer of glyphosate and other generic herbicides, two of Makhteshim’s core businesses. 8 ISRAELI START-UPS NAMED RED HERRING 100 WINNERS. ISRAEL’S MA INDUSTRIES BUYS ALBAUGH FOR $1 BLN.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 11, 2020

But it’s Lisa Abramowicz and Paul Sweeney, and it used to be, oh boy, his name’s going to escape me. So I live in Iowa, and at the time I was doing a design company, graphic design. I wanted this massive event that I could put my name on, pitch myself to the entire region and do it for free. A creativity event?

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 27, 2016

With the Iowa Caucuses this coming Monday and the New Hampshire Primary a week later, this is crunch time in both the Democratic and Republican Presidential Nomination Races. And whatever your politics, as business people we can learn a lot in these next two weeks from how the leading candidates sprint and compete hard for votes and momentum.

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