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The Seven Deadly Sins Of Digital User Experience

YoungUpstarts

Effective marketing depends on a seamless user experience. Don’t be too proud that you don’t consider making changes in response to an ever-evolving market. Professionalisms digital design digital marketing user experience web design' By Thelton McMillian, Founder & CEO of Comrade.

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Diverse Lead Firms

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645 Ventures 645 Ventures makes deeply-researched investments in institutional Seed to Series A rounds for exceptional companies who demonstrate stellar early results in the areas of market validation, product differentiation, team strength, and brand narrative. We solve problems and dominate critical markets.

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There’s Plenty Of Risk In A Startup: Insurance Can Help Limit Liability

YoungUpstarts

It requires vital steps, such as development of a business plan, market research and working capital. Having insurance is also key because most clients will not enter into contracts with an uninsured or underinsured startup, especially if the startup is providing goods and services that are marketed to third parties.

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3 Ways Acquisition Entrepreneurship Is Better Than Starting Your Own Business

YoungUpstarts

Teams don’t find product-market fit fast enough, or they can no longer raise the capital required to keep going. They usually involve new people entering an existing market or going to a market with a better mousetrap. And of the many startups that fail, almost half fail because they simply run out of money.

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Four Movies All Entrepreneurs Should Watch

YoungUpstarts

It is the true story of Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics baseball team and how he had to change his philosophy in order to make this small market team competitive. This is a great movie to watch whether you are at home on the couch or in comfortable seats in movie theaters.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: From Poland to Argentina

ReadWriteStart

During this week's roundtable, once again, we had an international group of entrepreneurs presenting from Buenos Aires, Argentina; Warsaw, Poland; Geneva, Switzerland; Sherbrooke, Canada; Oakland, California; and Austin, Texas. Last up, Ashesh Patel from Oakland, California, pitched StyleShop247.com StyleShop247.com.

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Market Opportunity From Customer Hostility, Exhibit 802.11: Airline WiFi

Gust

If it were a new service offered by a startup, I would never use it again, chalking it up to failure to do any customer development whatsoever before bringing it to market. On a customer satisfaction scale of 1–10, this experience scored a zero. Postscript : My laptop battery died with an hour to spare on this particularly long flight.

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