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3 Tips To Help Small Businesses Get More Customers In A Post-Google Search World

YoungUpstarts

Because of the explosion of social media and mobile as the primary, go-to consumer device for local information, Google is increasingly losing search share to local directories, social media sites and maps apps. Additionally, it is critical to make sure to syndicate out descriptions rich with keywords. com (mostly service industry).

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

Steve Blank

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. Knowing they had 3 weeks before presenting to the company co-founders, the kids felt intensity like no traditional classroom could generate.

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How marketers can build thought leadership

The Next Web

Innovations in social media and mobile have cultivated an ongoing dialogue and education between consumers and businesses. Since the marketing industry is so vast, there are many areas of expertise that a professional can become familiar with and really own—like wearable tech, social media marketing, mobile advertising and more.

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Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

What does seem to be true is that the current aversion for new IPOs is mostly due to general lack of appetite for risk at present, rather than something intrinsic to growing tech companies. Like everybody else, I’m lacking a crystal ball.

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The Consumerization of Business Software ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

But in the next 5 years the web and mobile app stores will increasingly be a force in selling and customer acquisition for busines software. 3) UI/UX Matters in B2B - For decades, B2B application developers could skimp on innovating in the presentation layer.

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Seven Compelling Reasons Why You Should Redesign Your Website

crowdSPRING Blog

Your site isn’t responsive or mobile-friendly. Your site isn’t responsive or mobile-friendly. In 2008, famed digital trends and internet analyst Mary Meeker predicted that mobile web traffic would overtake desktop traffic by 2014. you may be presenting your users with a subpar experience. Think about Google.

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Announcing First Round’s Investment in GroupMe

This is going to be BIG.

They also couldn’t have asked for a better syndicate of investors. I was actually at the Hackathon, too… but had missed Steve’s presentation. They showed me a very lightweight HTML5 mobile site that enabled you to start a group chat that fell back to just text messages when you logged off the web.