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8 Challenges For Startups With A Neighborhood Focus

Startup Professionals Musings

Foursquare is good example of a modern hyperlocal site, which describes itself as “50% friend-finder, 30% social city guide, 20% nightlife game.” Word-of-mouth and cheap viral marketing won’t build critical masses of users, curated content, and direct sales forces. It also shows how such a website can scale by adding new cities.

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If You Want To Start a Business Start Here

Up and Running

I have been able to curate a list of free online courses, videos, webinars, and other useful resources that should give you the confidence boost to get out there and get started. The American Fact Finder site. See Also: Business Startup Tools: A Curated List of Our Favorite Tools and Resources to Build Your Company. Break it up.

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Hyperlocal Has Great Potential And Real Challenges

Startup Professionals Musings

Foursquare is good example of a modern hyperlocal site, which describes itself as “50% friend-finder, 30% social city guide, 20% nightlife game.” Word-of-mouth and cheap viral marketing won’t build critical masses of users, curated content, and direct sales forces. It also shows how such a website can scale by adding new cities.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

in the domain finder. Solutions were imagined in the form of creatively curated energy-moving, mojo-building gift kits with all the right stuff contained inside to bring on lots of good vibes, laughter, and comfort, while clearing out negative and stagnant energy. To my luck I did manage to find many of them available.

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The ‘have you seen’ society

Start Up Blog

A community of finders, fans and agents. While curating the cool stuff has a value, and we all do it, there is a simple thing we should remember - Without creation than can be no curation. And curation is always subservient to what is being created. A society where people want to be first to know and first to show.

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“Your Site Has a Cadence:” The Best Blog Post from 2012 You Never Read

Hunter Walker

We essentially saw the web curating daily YouTube playlists. ” Coming back multiple times a day while the algorithm is playing recent needle finder in the giant YouTube haystack? Instead do something like this – preserve state and say “Hunter, since the last time you visited YouTube 67,000 videos have been uploaded.

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5 South-Asian Children’s Books on Family Love

Brandanew

We have more books curated for kids in our April Maker Box. Our student reporter, Taesung Tao shares his pick of South-Asian children’s books on family love and multigenerational relationships. Along with the book recommendations, Maker Box members can attend a FREE StoryTime. This April, we have a story time celebrating families.

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