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50 Great Ways To Use QR Codes In The College Classroom

YoungUpstarts

QR codes were first created by Toyota to track vehicles in manufacturing, offering a small barcode that can be quickly decoded. That was 1994, and now, almost 20 years later, QR code technology is experiencing a revival — but not in the automotive industry. With QR codes, you can make it even easier to get in touch.

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6 Startup Lessons Learned By Passionate Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Thus, I was happy to see my perspective solidified and detailed with real examples in a timely book, “ Mission Possible: How to Build a Business for our Times ,” by Alexandre Mars. In my own experience with technical startup founders, I still find it hard to name one who was also good, or even interested in financials or business operations.

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Real Unfair Advantages

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

No wait, I forgot, actually the question is: What happens when employee #2 makes off with your code and roadmap and marketing data and customer list, moves to Bolivia, and starts selling your stuff world-wide at one-tenth the price? But now she has the vision and ability to design her own software, capitalizing on modern trends (e.g.

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What Would Happen if you Built the Reverse of Amazon? It Might Look Something Like This …

Both Sides of the Table

We pride ourselves on being early-stage (thus the name, Upfront) but in this case it’s as early as it gets. He spent a few months building out the software because just taking stuff from people isn’t that difficult. After 9 months it was time to raise seed capital and go test drive our new software and processes.

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[Review] Heart, Smarts, Guts, And Luck

YoungUpstarts

Harrington and Tsun-Yan Hsieh , are contained their book “ Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck: What It Takes to Be an Entrepreneur and Build a Great Business “, or HSGL for short. The ultimate True North question here is this: If you have all the money you ever want, what would you choose to do?

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[Review] The Social Customer

YoungUpstarts

Covering a wide range of topics on social Customer Relationship Management (CRM), this ambitious book spans a wide spectrum of social business topics. From the Use Cases, the book proposes that a Social CRM methodology could be adopted. S = Strategy, the stuff that the book teaches. m = Measurement, a necessary evil.

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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

Both Sides of the Table

You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence. It’s predictable, there is no reason to get mad about it and with a well-designed play book you can overcome this much of the time.