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5 Reasons Investors Should Keep Their Eyes On Omaha, Nebraska

YoungUpstarts

Here’s a word association game: what do you think of when you hear “Omaha, Nebraska”? That’s the approach we’re taking at The Startup Collaborative, where companies that are still bootstrapping can share space with companies that have already been validated by the market and are ready to raise capital. But not for long.

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[Review] Warren Buffett’s Management Secrets

YoungUpstarts

With an uncanny ability to sniff out good companies that beat the market time and again, Buffett was able to amass an amazing fortune of US$44 billion. He brought her around his hometown in Omaha, Nebraska, bought her lunch at a fancy restaurant and introduced her to employees in the company.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 4: Customer Hypotheses

Steve Blank

Many of them had heard the phrase “product/market fit” before, but now they were living it. Going into the first four weeks their business model hypotheses looked like this: Last week we told them team: 1) see if the market size was really large enough to support a business, and 2) to find that out they were going to have to ?talk

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Hectic Holiday Season: 10 Tips For Rolling Out The Red Carpet For Your Customers

YoungUpstarts

In fact, in today’s market, there is a direct correlation between service and sales. Says Jeff Adams, senior director of customer service and marketing, “As part of our overall holiday strategy (in 2013) we wanted to find a way to bring service even more to the forefront during the busiest time of the year.” McKinsey, 2014).

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How to Navigate the New Era of Customer Expectations

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Navigate the New Era of Customer Expectations written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Jay Baer In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Jay Baer, a business growth and customer experience author, researcher, and advisor. They're from Nebraska, right?

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The New Big Ten Logo – Is it Love?

crowdSPRING Blog

I also mentioned how excited I was to see what they would come up with when the Big Ten added Nebraska to their ranks, changing the number of participating colleges to twelve. (As It used negative space in a clever way to show that the Big Ten athletic conference actually had eleven teams. You can see the full blog post here.

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Ending the Toll Roads to LP Fundraising

This is going to be BIG.

Picture this: Your family builds a tremendous business in Nebraska over four generations making black socks. Thanks to the SEC, you don't know who's actually fundraising, what kind of performance they have, and you'll never get reached by their marketing. You make more black socks for more people in the western world than anyone.

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