Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

As an entrepreneur, joining organizations or networking groups can allow you to connect with like-minded people who can provide you with information and support, and refer customers to you. One of the best ways to promote your business and increase its name recognition is by joining business organizations and/or communities or associations.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

Influencer marketing will be less pay-to-play and more like earned media, on the obvious Youtube and Instagram but also on other community-driven platforms whether visual, audio, or written. Second, European fintech companies are taking over North America thanks to the Open Banking regulatory initiatives and PSD2.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 5, 2021

Its community has over 15,000 paid members and over half a million subscribers. Ryan is also the founder and host of the Traffic & Conversion Summit, the largest digital marketing conversion conference in North America. Its community has over 15,000 paid members and over half a million subscribers. Check it out here.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

This three day conference has become the “must-attend” event for anyone who is active or new to the startup-community. GigaOM Structure aims tackle the challenge of understanding how to architect data centers, networks and applications along with the big questions emerging in computing and IT. GigaOM Structure. Computing is everywhere!

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Instead of countless usernames and passwords, you have one identity to use for a variety of activities you want guaranteed security: online shopping, social networking, online dating, and online financials. miiCard supports the UK, North America, Western Europe, India, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 17, 2018

It’s an exciting time to be launching a new fund as our focus on network effects and broad geography are driving opportunities in both existing and emerging markets. We invest in companies and platforms that leverage network effects. We invest across North America. About Fund III.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

In the beginning it is essential to establish a trusted network, leverage research partnerships and bring on experienced individuals with industry know-how. We have found Singapore to be a great choice to plant our roots as it balances an excellent venture capital environment and legal system with a small but growing biotech community.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

This is a guest post by Alignable CMO Dan Slagen about the missed opportunity the company has identified in social networking, and why they’ve chosen to build the business on the East Coast. And most notably absent is building a network. One that provides everything that a big, valuable, growing network should.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 25, 2011

In fact, the city's mayor recently touted Vancouver as having the highest number of entrepreneurs per capita in North America. The Vancouver Startup Ecosystem. The Provincial Government also offers tax credits and cash-back incentives to investors, as well as investment and support from the regional colleges and universities.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2016

My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Howard Behar, former President of Starbucks Coffee Company North America and Starbucks Coffee International. Alignable is the network exclusively for business owners to network with each other, generate referrals and co-promotions together.

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VC Adventure

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Community is one of the driving forces at Foundry Group. We want our programming to be impactful, relevant, and able to serve our community in a way that promotes growth, development, collaboration and ultimately successful company and fund outcomes. We know we’re just scratching the surface for how powerful this network can be.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels. This one claims to be the world’s largest single angel investor network, with 3000 accredited investor members throughout 52 chapters on 3 continents. USA Angel Investment Network.

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2013

It is important to get involved with different startup networks, conferences, and competitions. Here is a short list of conferences, competitions, and networks to check out for upcoming events. Another option is to go straight to a network designed specifically for angel investors. Startup Funding'

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Edward’s University, Texas State University, Texas Tech University, Trinity University, The University of Houston System, and The University of North Texas System. Our community colleges are excellent as well, including the Alamo Colleges, Austin Community College, the Dallas College and the Lone Star Community College.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. In addition to a fund, the overall Capacity organization provides direct mentorship, consulting and connects founders to a broad network of talent, diverse forms of capital, and existing resources focused on the post-startup stage of growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2019

AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels. This one claims to be the world’s largest single angel investor network, with 3000 accredited investor members throughout 53 chapters on 3 continents. USA Angel Investment Network.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Our fundamental thesis is that people of color, women, communities of concentrated poverty, have immense talent to contribute to the technology industry," Jake explained to me. "In In addition, those humans, collectively, are the majority of America and they reside disproportionately in non-primary markets.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

It's brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals. You know, your network. And here, you know, when you are starting a business, if you know how to raise money quickly and you have a network, that's an unfair advantage. Status is another one. Much harder to do.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2020

At Foundry Group, we are hiring a Head of Network. Following is a repost of the overview of the role and why we are adding a Head of Network to our team. We’re looking for a leader to create a more robust, dynamic, and connected network program at Foundry Group. We invest in companies and funds across North America.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Although relatively new, AngelList already has featured over 42,000 businesses and provided over 28,000 introductions to potential investors in a format that''s, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and Angels. New England Investment Network. Keiretsu Forum. Angel Capital Association (ACA). Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

Although relatively new, they announced early last year that their community had already grown to more than 500 startups, and 2,500 investors. The format is more social networking in nature, and they also will soon provide a recruiting portal for crowdfunding with unaccredited investors, now that the US JOBS Act has been passed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2017

AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels. This one claims to be the world’s largest single angel investor network, with 2500 accredited investor members throughout 52 chapters on 3 continents. USA Angel Investment Network.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Status is another one, your network. And here, when you are starting a business, if you know how to raise money quickly and you have a network, that's an unfair advantage. And if you need to go out to the market to raise money from ground zero and have nobody, no network, it's much harder to do, much harder to do.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

It’s about building relationships and networking, not selling, although that does come as a result. People have always gathered to talk about business, life and community events. Create an interactive, regularly updated site or blog , or by build informative yet informal profiles on social networking sites like Facebook or Twitter.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Outbound Squad, hosted by Jason Bay and brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network. Oscar Trimboli (18:45): Well again, think you give me much more credit than my community. I struggle with silence.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 30, 2023

It's brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network. And it helps build community and relationships. powered by This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network. The audio destination for business professionals creative elements goes behind the scenes with today's top creators.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

A fortnight ago, Boris interviewed Reed Hastings on his business lessons and experience, but now I’m shaking it up with a look at a 26-year-old founder who is disrupting the mobile and social networking spaces: Kik CEO and founder Ted Livingston. That something the Kik CEO found to be “personally devastating”. The deal that saved Kik.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 18, 2010

I was intrigued to find a well-established website for a city like Las Vegas up for a logo re-design on crowdSPRING so I emailed Sue Heilbronner, the CMO of Swiftrank Global and President of Swiftrank North America, the buyer for the project. Swiftrank manages more than 12,000 optimized travel websites across the globe.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 14, 2014

Here are some tips for hanging your shingle as an event planner, and building and maintaining a successful event planning business: Build your network. Networking” means more than going out and building a roster of clients. Thinking Aloud business advice event management event planning Glenn Orloff Metropolitan Shuttle'

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Attire follows suit, literally, though the norm is a bit more formal than in Western Europe or North America. While Hong Kong is a truly international city, it behooves new arrivals partner with service providers that have been on the ground here for years and boast deep, well-developed networks of local contacts.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 15, 2019

And when I find really interesting about this, John, is that our collective expectation as business people, and I’ve seen this in in North America, I’ve seen it around the world, our expectation is that people see that love has no place at work. Steve Farber: Yet. You could tell the difference.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 8, 2019

Being unwilling to listen to that is foolish, because it’s good information—and it’s networking 101. but in the end you should know exactly who your best few hundred (or more) potential networking leads are, and follow them. Can you imagine them talking about it later at a networking event? Running a logistics startup?

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Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2015

8) Give Back to my Community. My business model is different because I give back to my community by manufacturing my product in my home town. Also, a third of the profits of each ZippedMe sold is given back to women in my community. StorageMart is unique among Self-Storage companies in North America because of three things.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 15, 2016

According to a 2014 State of SaaS report from Compass , SaaS is a $10B industry in North America. Inbound.org is self-described as “the internet’s smartest marketing community” Everything Inbound marketing is discussed there. via Inbound.org). Inbound.org. So, the channel selection (vs.

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

I’m the Community Manager for Bplans.com. She has a growing list of collectors across North America and Europe. Ann: With your existing network and opportunities that you are having back in your head commit them to writing. To learn more about Ann, visit her website: ArtistsWhoThrive.com. This is going to be fun.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Channel relationships are very hard for any small company to establish even when interests are directly aligned, but this challenge is proving even more difficult for most SaaS companies given the restricted value proposition to the SI and ISV community. Stay local - Prove your business in North America first. Philippe Botteri.

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