I just read the Q1 2011 report from CB Insights, which shows venture capital is back. Overall, investors put $7.5 billion to work across 738 financing deals with U.S. startups. That represents a $1.5 billion jump in funding over the same quarter of 2010 with a similar number of deals, so it clearly
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Startups With Real Revenue Can Get Venture Capital
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4759 days ago
Business Objectives for Business Plan
Posted by bigmoneyweb under StartupsFrom http://investengine.com 4759 days ago
Obviously setting business goals is a significant building block in strategic planning. But in this article we’ll remain specific and will focus on business objectives as the part of the business plan.
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5 Winning Ideas to Help You Set Up a Customized Service Business
Posted by marz25 under StartupsFrom http://theoneofakindpreneur.com 4759 days ago
Would you like to set up a business that has more to do with people and less to do with products? Do you like creating bespoke experiences that cannot be quantified in units nor expressed in terms of money?
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A.W.E. Spotlight – Social Media Strategist
Posted by DrShannonReece under StartupsFrom http://blog.drshannonreece.com 4760 days ago
In an effort to always bring you the latest and greatest information, I am happy to present another installment of our Advisory of Women Entrepreneurs Spotlight interview series.
We continue this series with a spunky Social Media Strategist — Founder of SM Cubed Consulting, Lauren MacEwen.
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We continue this series with a spunky Social Media Strategist — Founder of SM Cubed Consulting, Lauren MacEwen.
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Social Entrepreneurs Don’t Need Profit For Success
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4760 days ago
A term I’m hearing more and more these days is “social entrepreneur.” In the simplest of terms, these are people who seek to generate “social value”, rather than profits, and use traditional business principles to create and manage a venture to make social change.
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Starting a Business - Are You Sure There is a Market?
Posted by alastair under StartupsFrom http://www.managementdirect.com 4761 days ago
There is a lot that goes into starting a new business. Lots of big decisions, important planning and product development. In all of this important and time consuming work, one very important issue often gets missed. Have you seriously considered whether there is a market?
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How to Market Your Startup to People Not Like You
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4761 days ago
Face reality. As an entrepreneur, you should assume none of your customers is like you, yet I find that most entrepreneurs assume just the opposite. Customers don’t have your technical base, the passion, and interest in your solution. In fact, even if they did, they couldn’t find you in the clutter
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From Selling Baked Goods In Her Dorm Room To Cute Baby Products – with Jessica Kim of BabbaCo
Posted by timjahn under StartupsFrom http://www.beyondthepedway.com 4761 days ago
An interview with Jessica Kim, founder of BabbaCo, sharing insight on creating a product based business and the importance of branding.
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TeamEXtension Case Study: Amazon Web Services
Posted by maritzazmz under StartupsFrom http://aws.amazon.com 4761 days ago
TeamEXtension Case Stusy at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon Web Services (AWS) delivers a set of services that together form a reliable, scalable, and inexpensive computing platform 'in the cloud'.
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Technology Attacks the Venerable Business Card
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4762 days ago
In a second, with Google, I can find a phone number that was assigned to you ten years ago, but it takes me an hour to find your phone number on that business card you gave me last week. That’s just wrong. We need instant access to the most important of all resources, current contact info.
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