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A Good Answer in a Business Plan Contest

Up and Running

One of the judges (me) challenges the entrepreneurs that their numbers — particularly the margins, meaning gross margin (sales less costs of sales) and profit before taxes (gross margin less operating expenses) are way too high. First, because they came out ahead of Green Valley Solar. Very interesting business.

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Microsoft’s Bing Fund will give online startups cash, advice, and discounts

venturebeat.com

Venture capital. Developers. Entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs. Infographics. Management. Electric cars. Hybrid cars. Renewable energy. Streaming media. Streaming video. Smartphones. Windows Phone. Mobile Jetpac pulls in $2.4M Mobile Jetpac pulls in $2.4M Digital Cameras. Game Consoles. GPS Navigation. Headphones. More Products. Smartphones.

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What You Can Do To Make Customer Care Your Most Effective Marketing Strategy

YoungUpstarts

What if improving your customer service was all it took to generate more sales and grow your business? Staying focused on a marketing strategy built around customer service is a long-game move that can be easy to get distracted from when you are pressured to make more sales now. Would you do it? Of course you would.

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SXSW Startups: UbiGro

Austin Startup

I truly believe this is the year where quantum dots make a name for themselves in agriculture, and so its about marketing, sales, manufacturing, and generally about traction in the market. We can make green, yellow, orange, red, and everything in between, simply by changing the size of these particles.

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17 Entrepreneurs Share their Favorite Quotes

Hearpreneur

Whether you’re entering a new sales meeting, court room, doctor’s office or a cage fight, you will find yourself repeating it more and more often. ” This was a statement told to me years ago by a former client of mine, Chuck Kaady, owner of Kaady Car Washes, located in Oregon. 13 – Life is a Dance.

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Starting a Nonprofit: Chapter 1 of The ‘RIDE Eugene’ Story

Up and Running

In Oregon, nearly 30 percent of all traffic fatalities are related to drunk driving. And even if the intoxicated customer decides to call their own taxi for a ride home, where do they leave their car overnight, and how do they return to claim their car the next day? Right now, prevention is a hassle. But it doesn’t have to be.

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What Is a Benefit Corporation?

Up and Running

Now, you can create a benefit corporation in: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington D.C., with many more states in the pending legislation phase.