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Nashville Offers More Than Just Country Music: Startup Scene Shines At Southland
BY: Caryn Tomer
It’s easy to overlook a city like Nashville, Tennessee. On the surface, it’s all country music and southern hospitality, and even though country music is gaining mainstream appeal these days, there’s more going on in this great city than first meets the eye. For example, $1.4 billion of venture capital has been raised by 215 [...]
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The Psychology Of Design: John Roa Shares A Look Inside AKTA
BY: Sonali Basak
“The cruel truth is that I’m not even a designer today,” said John Roa, founder of AKTA design studio. But if he was never a designer, then what made AKTA one of Chicago’s most sought-after design studios, and Roa one of Chicago’s most influential entrepreneurs? Roa’s journey was riddled with successes, failures and a carefully [...]
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Chicago startup, MentorMob, accelerates to Kaplan TechStars New York
BY: Sonali Basak
MentorMob, a Chicago-based startup, has moved to New York to begin its tenure with TechStars. Team members are seeking mentorship opportunities and influence in a new city. MentorMob is a crowd sourced learning platform whose community creates “learning playlists” out of the best of the web. “We want to make it easy to connect [...]
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St. Louis City, County Join Forces To Support Entrepreneurs
BY: Mark Sutherland
An ambitious five-year plan, announced last week by entrepreneurial, civic and business leaders is calling for broad, public/private support of entrepreneurship in St. Louis through a $100 million fund. Its purpose is to fund new ventures and direct money to established venture capital and angel investment groups. The fund also will advance startup support systems [...]
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8 Tricks For Incorporating Responsive Web Design
BY: The Young Entrepreneur Council
What one tip do you have for building more responsive web designs for your online products? The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, the YEC recently launched #StartupLab, a free virtual mentorship program that helps millions [...]
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Hot Shot Email: Use your Domain Name
BY: Kriti Vichare
What does your company email address say about you? Nothing screams “newbie” as a free domain email address. And nothing dates you as much as a Hotmail or Yahoo! email address, especially if you are a technology-focused startup company. This is an #entrepreneurfail that can easily be avoided. It is important that as you launch [...]
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America’s Best Kept Tech Secret Revealed
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By Anthony Pompliano In January 2012, I moved back to Raleigh, NC after college and military service. The quaint community I had left was gone and was replaced by a region bursting at the seams and ready to explode. This blessing in disguise helped me uncover one of the best-kept secrets in America. The Triangle [...]
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Chicago-based startup, Kumbuya, accelerates to Los Angeles with Warner Bros.
BY: Sonali Basak
When a media giant and a social commerce startup get together, what you get is innovation. Two companies are looking to evolve the media landscape to make it far more interactive. Warner Bros. “Media Camp” is a 12-week accelerator program that pairs media executives with startups. Chicago-based startup Kumbuya, based in Chicago incubator 1871, has [...]
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When Men Disrupt The Wedding Industry
BY: Danyelle Michelini
The Problem When you think about wedding planning, you normally envision a soon to be bride, with her mother and bridesmaids in tow, going from flower shop, to bakery, to dress shop, to reception venue in order to piece together the perfect wedding. However, it isn’t always as simple as it looks in the movies. [...]
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6 Must-Have Tools for Analyzing Your Marketing Efforts
BY: The Young Entrepreneur Council
What is your favorite platform, tool or plugin for analyzing the results of your content marketing efforts, and why? The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, the YEC recently launched #StartupLab, a free virtual mentorship program [...]
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Food Genius: A “Nate Silver” approach to the food industry
BY: Sonali Basak
Industries are craving better data aggregation to help companies rise above competition. Food Genius does this to help the food and restaurant industry provide quality, creative menu items to customers. “I think it’s a question of ‘How do you craft really fantastic food products, and then bring those products to people?’” said Justin Massa, Food [...]
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The Grass is Always Brown: Job Satisfaction – [COMIC]
BY: Kriti Vichare
Whenever I speak to entrepreneurs who have left the corporate rat race to pursue their own ventures, their experiences always echo my own. Sure, new small business owners expect additional flexibility, less bureaucracy and longer hours. However, those who leave the corporate world in search of greener pastures in a startup will realize that the [...]
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Find The Perfect Father’s Day Gift With Help From StyleSeek [INFOGRAPHIC]
BY: Caryn Tomer
Father’s Day is right around the corner, and it’s time to start shopping for that perfect gift to show him how much you appreciate him. But what do you get dear old dad? Of course, you can go with an age-old staple like a ‘World’s Best Dad’ mug, but how many of those [...]
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New Startup Breather Launches Today; Closes $1.5 Million Seed Round
BY: Caryn Tomer
Do you ever just need to take a breath? Find a quiet space, especially when you’re traveling, to just relax, get some work done, or take a breather? That’s what Julien Smith, founder, CEO and best-selling author is looking to provide for you with his new startup launching today at Le Web London. It’s called [...]
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Game Developers: Intellectual Property Is All You’ve Got, So Make Sure You Get It
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A video game is not a conventional product. If you are a video game developer, you aren’t selling manufactured goods. Increasingly, you aren’t even selling physical media. What we “own” in our products is almost entirely intellectual property, and what we “sell” are licenses to use it. However, there is a peculiar conundrum in the [...]
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Ender’s Startup? Building Greatness In Entrepreneur Communities
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In Ender’s Game with the survival of humanity on the line, the human race has decided to raise super soldiers from birth in the pursuit of nurturing the perfect leader. The author goes to extremes to show how much could be done to intentionally cultivate human greatness to the likes of Leonardo Da Vinci or [...]
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Flags4Vets Honors Veterans This Memorial Day Weekend – VIDEO
BY: Caryn Tomer
This Memorial Day weekend, a non-profit out of Louisville, Kentucky, honored Veterans with a remembrance field.Thousands of flags were placed by volunteers, and additional funds were raised to purchase more flags. This non-profit raises money all year long at various events to place flags on graves for Veterans Day. They work with local organizations and [...]
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How To Start Your Virtual Internship Program
BY: Guest Post
It happens to every startup. You’re beginning to gain traction, understand the right marketing and sales tactics for your business, and getting to the point where you can’t do it all yourself. All this good news means it’s time to expand your team. However, you’re worried about making any costly hiring decisions while you’re still [...]
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Checks And Imbalances In The Entrepreneurial Mind – COMIC
BY: Kriti Vichare
The entrepreneurial mind often skews to idealism. Pull out those rose-colored glasses. Optimism signals confidence, abilities, perseverance and positive outcomes. These are clearly the traits startup founders need to get their first customers, funding or boost employee morale. Also, in some situations, confidence even trumps accuracy. Sounds great doesn’t it? I can almost hear the [...]
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SURGE Day 2013: Energy, Innovation And Houston
BY: Michelle Lenzen
HOUSTON, TEXAS—On May 22nd, over 500 people packed the House of Blues to finally see the 12 graduating teams from the SURGE Accelerator Program. With SURGE being the only early stage seed accelerator in the world for entrepreneurs focused on energy software, the intrigue of investors is easy to understand. But the key component that really [...]
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Meet Healthfundr: Equity-Based Crowdfunding For Health Startups
BY: Caryn Tomer
When Marshall McLuhan said that the medium is the message in the 1960s, it’s amazing to think about how much that idea still applies in present culture. What he meant is that new forms of media (technology) transform our experience and is ultimately more important than the content that is shared. In other words, technology [...]
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Is St. Louis The Next Big Game Development City?
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Like most industries, gaming has a few cities that are known as centers of the productivity and output. Austin, Texas. San Francisco, California. Seattle, Washington. Saint Louis is poised to become the next major game development city, and there are signs that it’s already starting to happen. The Global Game Jam is a hackathon for [...]
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International Spotlight: The Tech Startup Scene In Perth, Australia
BY: Carlo Pandian
The startup scene is thriving in Perth, Australia, thanks to a bounty of techie startup groups. Throw in the perfect financial landscape against which would-be entrepreneurs can try their luck, and it’s no small wonder that Perth plays home to a huge number of startups and SMEs. Below is a list of some of the [...]
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Monitoring Legislation Goes Mobile: TrakBill Launches New iOS App
BY: Caryn Tomer
TrakBill, a St. Louis startup that is building an online legislative monitoring platform, unveiled its brand new iOS app yesterday. This launch comes on the heels of winning an Arch Grant just last week and presenting at Capital Innovators Demo Day the week before that. To say that it’s been a whirlwind of activity for [...]
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City Of Houston’s Open Innovation Hackathon
BY: Michelle Lenzen
HOUSTON, TEXAS — Something revolutionary happened this weekend: the City of Houston stopped complaining about their problems. From traffic, parking and bike transportation issues to regulations and confusing online databases, city officials and citizens came together to do more than just talk. At the City’s first ever Open Innovation Hackathon, they came to build. Organized [...]
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