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Integrating Creativity in Business

Duct Tape Marketing

In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Sarah Avenir, writer, researcher, and partner and CEO at &yet , a design and software consultancy that’s kind of hard to describe. Sarah speaks and gives workshops at conferences and for organizations like CreativeLive and the University of Pennsylvania.

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The Accomplishments of Entrepreneur, Justin Halladay

The Startup Magazine

He worked for corporations in Pennsylvania, Colorado, New York, and his native state of New Jersey, among other places. I have a terrific team of partners and friends to bounce ideas off of and grow them into solutions, and eventually goods and services, when they come to me, which they do frequently.”.

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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

Both Sides of the Table

They had been introduced by my friend Brian Garrett, a partner at Crosscut Ventures and the ambition outlined in their deck seemed almost unbelievable, “to make wireless charging of phones (and other devices) as easy as WiFi” that I had to see it for myself. Meredith came to see me along with the CTO Marc Berte.

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Are You Losing Money by Staying Too Niche?

YoungUpstarts

by Joshua Conran , senior partner at Deksia . If you were to open an import auto dealership in rural Pennsylvania, for example, the number of potential customers would be rather limited. Joshua Conran is a senior partner at Deksia , a branding agency that has been successfully developing companies for the past decade.

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Unlocking the Power of Data: Transforming Metrics into Actionable Insights

Duct Tape Marketing

I should have gotten on the partner train. I started the agency partner program that you passed on and built that up. billion in annual revenue and 40% of that, or roughly, I don't think they shut publicly that often, but about 40% of that is coming in through partners. That's one of my big regrets in life.

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Start Up and Stay Up – How Small Businesses Survive & Thrive

The Startup Magazine

Since then it has grown to serve the tri-state New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware areas, but I still consider it a small business and my employees, more like a family. Brad Harley worked in various aspects of real estate and partnered with several residential real estate appraisal companies before forming Home Appraising Group, Inc.

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Want to Know How First Round Capital was Started?

Both Sides of the Table

He then went on to teach Computer Science at Cornell, Caltech, and University of Pennsylvania. Office Hours – Two or three partners post a sign-up sheet to meet with entrepreneurs. These partners travel to a city and take ten minute pitches from the entrepreneurs. The same limit also kept them from investing in Zynga.