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How to Be Ready for What’s Next

Duct Tape Marketing

He served as Chairman and CEO of Cree for 16 years where his team successfully led the LED lighting revolution not just by creating new products, but by focusing on solving old problems in completely new ways. What you’ll learn if you give a listen: How products that solve problems are marketing and sales success stories.

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Are You Losing Money by Staying Too Niche?

YoungUpstarts

They recognize an underserved segment of the population — whether that’s expectant mothers, pet owners, or cheese lovers — then develop a product or service to meet the specific needs of that customer base. To be successful, you’d need to expand your product offerings to include a larger segment of the market. Poor customer retention.

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Startup Map & Trends Analysis – September 2012

Gust

Georgia and Pennsylvania bumped Illinois out of the top five, and were tied for fifth place. The top industries stayed relatively unchanged from the previous month, with Internet/Web Services and Consumer Products and Services leading worldwide. Not surprisingly, many new startups across the world are in the development stage.

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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. Create a way for clients to receive a link to a survey of your work or product via email. I started my Philadelphia area home appraising business in 2006.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Sapient

Austin Startup

Instead, an idea for smart outlets, conceived while he was still a student at University of Pennsylvania, evolved into Sapient Industries, based in Philadelphia, Penn., This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

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20 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Industry With The Most Optimist Future

Hearpreneur

Accelerating environmental problems and the urgent need to find solutions will spur innovation and investment in diverse sectors from manufacturing, consumer products, energy production, medicine, agriculture, and consulting. Country with bright tech and digital talents is going to have an edge this decade. 14- Home automation.

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Entrepreneurs And Small Businesses Thrive With These 5 Tech Tools

YoungUpstarts

With these innovative tools, small business owners are able to streamline processes, making it a whole lot easier for workers to be productive and for start-up businesses to thrive and grow and to stay competitive with larger companies. to be productive. Slack positions itself as an “email-killer” of sorts.