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Crowdsourcing Hope With Online Donation Platform GoFundMe

YoungUpstarts

San-Diego, California-based GoFundMe essentially is a crowdfunding platform that lets someone collect donations for a personal cause or a life event. The site lets users manage their campaigns, thank donors and even communicate with supporters. Enter a website called GoFundMe.com.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

It is a platform to help brands building viral marketing campaigns. They focus on trying to drive engagbranded social media marketing campaigns (e.g. Clients include Pepsi, Sony, CNN, Universal, AT&T, Victoria’s Secret and Facebook, which has used the service for multiple campaigns. Read more: PEHub. OpenCandy.

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[Interview] Imaginary Friends Studios (Is More Real Than You Think)

YoungUpstarts

Before setting up IFS, I was running an advertising and design agency as art director for 4 years, working on corporate design projects such as branding, and advertising campaigns. Before our bank savings ran dry, we decided to put together an artbook and brought the copies over to San Diego Comic Con and gave them away like leaflets.

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A new field guide for entrepreneurs of all stripes

Startup Lessons Learned

From Lean Startup Machine , Lean LA and San Diego Tech Founders , to countless speeches and workshops, I have seen the impact that their leadership has had first hand. It took the idea of Customer Development and made it accessible to a whole new audience. Or perhaps you need to chum (freemium) the waters a bit?

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Six Ways To End The Last Quarter Strong To Meet Revenue Goals

YoungUpstarts

First conduct some research into your customer base to segment out who is buying what, then work on specific campaigns to cross-sell and upsell. and then run automated campaigns according to the tags. Your customers are already spending money with you, so now we just need to increase the amount. Get ahead on tasks before traveling.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I started my business in San Diego in 2007. I wanted to move to a city… San Diego was a little too boring for me. My grand plan was to go to San Francisco, but I applied for one job in NYC and got it! Thanks to Candice VanWye, Brown Girl Bloggers ! #16 16 – Laid Off. Image Credit: Dana Humphrey.

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Cold Emails: Can They Work, Or Are They Just Spam?

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Cold email is not a replacement for inbound methods but a supplement—a way to drive near-term growth while inbound campaigns gain traction. The most important thing you can do for your cold email campaign is to send relevant messages. Here’s an excerpt from one of his successful campaigns: ( Image source ).

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