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Twitter Link Roundup #89 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

It’s not easy being lean – [link]. 10 New Creative Guerrilla Marketing Examples – [link]. Important for bloggers: New Jersey supreme court denies blogger protection under press shield law – [link]. The Billion-Dollar Startup Club: Then and Now – [link]. You don’t know the basics.

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: SignNow.com

crowdSPRING Blog

Our first week of launching NotaryNow, we received multiple threats via message boards, forums, and I even got a call from a notary threatening to “Wring my F*ing neck&# and to “Stay the F*ck out of New Jersey&# if we did business in there. This is how we found crowdSPRING to do some logo and website design work for us.

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Why You Need Business Development w/ Hunter Boyle of AWeber

ConversionXL

Take for example, New Jersey chocolate makers Chocomize. ” His answer, “I’m a big fan of the lean startup methodology[.] Conversely, too many “good” partnerships too fast could lead to growth the company’s not prepared for.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 32: Evangelos Simoudis and Ashok Srivastava

Steve Blank

— Ashok has taken a Lean approach to innovation at Verizon: Within a couple of weeks of joining Verizon, they said, “Before you learn a lot about the company, write down what you think we should do.” If you can’t hear the clip, click here. ” So I wrote a 9-page charter of what I thought we should do.

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Innovation and Venture Capital in New Jersey

Feld Thoughts

If you are a fan of Startup Communities , there’s a lot going on around new initiatives on this front. Ian Hathaway and I are hard at work on a book called The Startup Community Way, which is modeled after Eric Ries’ evolution of The Lean Startup to his recent book The Startup Way.

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Building The Machine Podcast Episode 5: Dan Kimerling Deciens Capital

Eric Friedman

Eric, as you know, I grew up in suburban New Jersey and in suburban New Jersey, we ate a lot of Benihana growing up and I love the Americanized version of this deeply traditional Japanese meal. On Deciens’ Lean Operation. I think that in the world of sushi, there’s a role for Jiro, Nobu, and Benihana.

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Avoid These Big Mistakes When Hiring Your Next Keynote Speaker

YoungUpstarts

No matter which way you lean politically, the 2012 Republican National Convention featured some disastrous public speaking. Keynote speaker Chris Christie, the governor of New Jersey, didn’t mention the nominee, Mitt Romney, until about two-thirds of the way through his speech.

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