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

The Startup Magazine

I started my Philadelphia area home appraising business in 2006. 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. Reach Out to Other Related Businesses. No small business is an island.

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Take Advantage of a New Trend: Big Business Looks to Small to Innovate

Up and Running

Sometimes it’s the smaller business that has more freedom to innovate. An increasing number of big companies are hiring small businesses to help them develop innovative products, processes and procedures. If your company is an innovator, you may be able to team up with larger firms to grow your business much more rapidly.

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Incorporate Your Startup at the Right Time

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How To Market Better and Grow Your Small Business Faster Using The Psychology of Reciprocity

crowdSPRING Blog

Dunkin’ Donuts turned wins by the Philadelphia Eagles into free coffees and huge mobile downloads. Called “ Eagles Win, You Win ,” the campaign offered Philadelphia area customers a free coffee the day after the Philadelphia Eagles won a game. Dunkin’ Donuts .

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Finalist Women and Minority Entrepreneurs Named in VCAP Program

David Teten

MetaLayer ( www.metalayer.com , Philadelphia, PA) harnesses business users’ own proprietary data and the world’s unstructured, real-time data alike, transforming complex data analysis into a simple drag and drop experience. To date, VCAP© has received 149 applicants, of which 15 companies made round one, and 6 made round two.

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Finalist Women and Minority Entrepreneurs Named in VCAP Program

David Teten

MetaLayer ( www.metalayer.com , Philadelphia, PA) harnesses business users’ own proprietary data and the world’s unstructured, real-time data alike, transforming complex data analysis into a simple drag and drop experience. To date, VCAP© has received 149 applicants, of which 15 companies made round one, and 6 made round two.

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From The Flea Market To The Stock Market

YoungUpstarts

My entrepreneurial ways can be traced to when I was 17 and decided to go into business with a friend, operating a table at a flea market. But when my friend dropped out of our partnership, I didn’t need to look far to find a new partner. billion business owned by the Home Depot. A year later we were opening up a hardware store.

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