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27 Entrepreneurs Share Tips on Building an Ecommerce Business

Hearpreneur

These days, we have a strong e-commerce presence – focusing heavily on digital marketing and user experience, providing deals and promotions throughout the year on the Omaha Steaks website. Thanks to Todd Simon, Omaha Steaks ! #9- The first step is to have a domain name that matches your business name.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

My longtime friend Marion Jenkins, CEO of IT consultant QSE Technologies wrote what I think is one of the most eloquent and well thought out rebuttals to the proposed Colorado “Software Tax” (HB 1192). I urge you to oppose HB 1192, the so-called “Software” Tax. CDs) – shouldn’t change whether the software should be taxed.

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Quick Left: An unlikely CEO leads this app development house that’s “a bit like therapy”

The Next Web

In fact, she’s so unlikely to talk about herself or her company that, while sitting with her for dinner during Big Omaha, the subject of Quick Left came up (not from her, mind you) and I said that I really needed to talk to someone from there to find out their story. We’ve spent years trying to clean up that mess.”

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Students Show The Way For Technology Innovation At Microsoft Imagine Cup 2012

YoungUpstarts

For example, Tu Nguyen, from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, won first prize in the inaugural 2003 competition with a Pocket PC application designed to bridge the language gap between English-speaking waiters and Vietnamese-speaking chefs. Imagine Cup Grants.

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Looking Back On Our First Couple Years at NextView

Rob Go

We have investments in e-commerce, SMB SaaS, Business Software, AdTech, Payments, Enabling Platforms, Consumer Social, Gaming, and Education. Sector-wise, we’ve invested in a bunch of spaces. But there actually have been unifying themes (which I’ll blog more about another time). Geography: 18 of the 23 are in Boston or New York.

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10 Startup Red Flags

adamac.blogspot.com

Maybe the CEO got his cousin from Omaha to be their lawyer or theres been some serious messing around with the cap table. A Billion Outstanding Shares Most startups should have fewer than 50 million shares outstanding. If you get an option grant for a million shares and youre employee 25, something is funky. Thats a REALLY bad sign.

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The Ultimate Office for Athletes and People Seeking a Healthier Lifestyle

David Teten

A small number of offices across the country have slowly begun to endorse the idea of exercising while doing a white collar job (not before or after), e.g., walking on a treadmill while doing your job at Mutual of Omaha. Another option for data input is dictation software and microphone, such as Dragon NaturallySpeaking (~$50).

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