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10 Digital Startup Conferences You Should Attend This Year

YoungUpstarts

The Growth Edition (April 29th-May 1st) is for companies whose founders are already making a full-time living from their software products. The Starter edition is for founders who are not currently making a full-time living from their software products but who seek to do so in the future. Business of Software. Cleveland, USA.

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Thank you

Startup Lessons Learned

I had really debated about whether there was any value in spending the time and money to fly to San Francisco when there was a perfectly serviceable simulcast going on in Cleveland. And a special thanks is due to all of our presenters, panelists, and mentors. You are the ones that consistently blew the audience away. We all owe you.

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6 Tips for Coming Up With Your Million-Dollar Business Idea

Up and Running

In the early 1990s, my brother was working for a company that was going through the roof selling shareware software via catalog. She says her idea began to take shape after she went through Bizdom Detroit, an entrepreneurial accelerator program founded by Quicken Loans and Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert. In the end, the review?

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Votem

Austin Startup

Votem is a complete end-to-end platform that takes your organization from registration through to results and review. Votem is based in Cleveland. Why Cleveland? Why Cleveland? I’d say diligence, only because I think we can get wrapped up in working hard and judging our worth by our hours versus the outcomes we produce.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I started Rising Star Reviews because I’ve always had a passion for helping small businesses. Every day I get to see how my company helps so many small businesses get the appreciation they deserve from online reviews from their own hard-earned happy customers. Thanks to Chas Cooper, Rising Star Reviews ! #9-

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Pros and Cons of Being Your Own Boss

Up and Running

And I built a software company because I believed the product was needed. Don’t stay in Cleveland if you prefer Klamath Falls. We need to get the software done, tested, and published. In my case, being my own boss, or not, was never really the point. The own boss factor was something that came along with it. Up to you.

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An Extensive Guide To Web Form Usability

uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

Restrict validation to confirming key points (such as the availability of a user name), ensuring realistic answers (such as not allowing ages above 130) and suggesting responses where the range of possible data is finite but too long to include in a drop-down menu (such as a country-code prefix). Learn more on Coding: JavaScript & jQuery.

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