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Startup Lessons Learned

Id like to call special attention to Kurt Carr s perspective (lets hope he finishes his five-part series): Now that I’m back in Ohio (I was one of the token foreigners in a room full of Silicon Valley residents), I have found myself reliving and rethinking much of what I saw there. Steve Blank has been a mentor to me for several years.

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4 Steps to Turn Tweets Into Customers

Up and Running

With more and more users signing up on Twitter each day, including an increasing number of users who are 50 years old and up , Twitter is a powerful platform for getting your business in front of a large audience with varied age ranges and interests. It’s also a key platform for building relationships with people in your local area.

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How Writing a Book is Good For Business & Why You Shouldn’t Do It Without a Coach

Duct Tape Marketing

John Jantsch (05:51): So again, in my world, probably to some extent in your world, although yours is a little broader, more diverse maybe in some cases, audiences, I talked to a lot of marketers and so when they think strategy, it's a business strategy for gaining more customers or something along those lines.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

We saw a need for Cleveland, Ohio, to attract young entrepreneurs back to the city at a time when most were leaving. What started as a dream in two 10×10 offices blossomed over 10 years into a true coworking community that now spans three locations (and soon to be more) in northeast Ohio. . #22-Attract back young entrepreneurs.

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Four Tips For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

My team and I built our company, Turning Technologies, into the world’s largest audience response software enterprise using this principle. TurningPoint allows presenters to instantly receive audience responses via keypads or smartphones in real time. Be Driven by Data.

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The Biggest Business Fails of 2014 and How to Avoid Them

Up and Running

Walmart is at it again; the world’s largest company (and the biggest private employer with over 2 million workers globally) is unfortunately known for short-changing its employees, including a widely publicized incident last year where one Ohio store threw a food drive for its own workers. What does that mean for those employees?

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5 Important Lessons Your Small Business Should Learn From Successful Brands

crowdSPRING Blog

The vacuum legend Hoover traces its humble beginnings to a tanning mill in Canton, Ohio. Door-to-door sales visits may not be the best way to reach your audience. Find where your audience is most receptive to marketing contacts. Then build your marketing strategy around that position. Hoover: Be everywhere your customers are.