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30 Compelling Reasons to Start a Business

Up and Running

As an entrepreneur, you’ll learn what kind of work you enjoy and start to understand how you can make a difference in your community,” he says. Reason #7: Fill a void in the community. The community and the public response have been phenomenal.” Connect on Twitter: @sfboehner @MyLikes. Reason #3: Make more money.

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12 Questions: Meet Maximilian (USA)

crowdSPRING Blog

In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly – activities that make crowdSPRING a better community. Alright, so B.) I thought so. Muu ha ha haaaar!

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An Extensive Guide To Web Form Usability

uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

As Luke Wroblewski states in his book Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks , every form exists for one of three main reasons: commerce, community or productivity. Louis Community College. It can be found in the description for the St.Louis Community College screenshot. Just imagine pressing the “Reset Form” button by accident.

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How To Become A Real Estate Agent

YoungUpstarts

New York state, for example, has reciprocity with several states, including Massachusetts, Georgia, Arkansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Mississippi, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Courses can be taken online, at community colleges or at a brick-and-mortar real estate school.

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Small Business Spotlight Of the Week

crowdSPRING Blog

A project posted by Mark Wray of Digital Beckley (www.digitalbeckley.com) caught my eye initially because it was a small website design for the Austism Recovery Resource Center in West Virginia. Tags: Awesomeness Interviews community crowdsourcing small business smallbiz.

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Travel industry should learn how to listen to social media

Austin Startup

Later on, I joined with other bloggers to write for the Perceptive Travel blog, plus I covered NHRA drag racing on Fast Machines for awhile and then started my own personal blog and co-founded a learning community (Tourism Currents, [link] teaching social media for tourism. Q: I noted your military experience in the Navy.

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The Coming Bits and Atoms Disruption

Andrew Payne

Growing up in West Virginia, my technology sources were Popular Electronics and Digi-Key mail-order. Now, the tools & techniques pioneered by the software community are spilling into the mechanical world: ”open source” designs, version control and configuration management, and collaborative projects.