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A Good Answer in a Business Plan Contest

Up and Running

All three of the others were strong business plans, with good product-market possibilities, strong technologies, and strong management. Tags: business pitch business plan contests pitch presentation Mosaic Genetics NanoMark Therapeutics New Venture Championship NVC University of Louisville University of Oregon. This is a true story.

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Twitter Link Roundup #159 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

What Job Are Your Customers Hiring Your Products To Perform? What Job Are Your Customers Hiring Your Products To Perform? I’m Not The Product, But I Play One On The Internet - [link]. Fantastic post by Ernie Miller on why he loves bing a programmer in Louisville - [link]. crowdSPRING Blog - [link]. Quora - [link].

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In Cloud We Trust: First Round invests in Backupify

This is going to be BIG.

He's been in Louisville, Kentucky over the last few years and he's been talking about moving to a more robust innovation community for as long as I know him. With this round, Backupify is going to be able to sharpen its product and business focus, and make some much needed engineering hires.

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PressIt, An Easy Way To Convert Original Content Into Merchandise

YoungUpstarts

Louisville, Kentucky-based online retailer of stock and user-customized on demand products CafePress has launched PressIt , a simple and effective way for bloggers or small businesses to monetize their original images and other content, by making it simple to put them on products like t-shirts, mugs and tote bags.

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Lean Startup Implementation Lessons

Startup Lessons Learned

Check out his talk for the specifics of how Ash tests a metric: On the subject of experimentation, few have learned more than Matt Brezina, whose company Sincerely launched nine products in its first year to form a group of apps that are the world’s largest gifting network. offering ten ways founders can get out of their offices.

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Cultivating A Culture Of Excellence From The Ground Up

YoungUpstarts

What’s missing for these employees, whether they’re sitting at a desk, standing on a production line or pulling weeds, is an understanding of how their ideas and investment of time, energy and skill matter. Polls show that less than one-third of employees in our country are enthusiastic about their work. Broaden horizons.

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Bringing the Lean Startup approach to healthcare

The Next Web

We had to come up with Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) to see which concepts might work. I outline the specifics of how we made minimal viable products, tested hypotheses and either persevered or pivoted. Lean Startup was critical in creating our program. I am delighted to say that we’re off to a great start.

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