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8 Marketing Multipliers To Boost Your Business Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

Amazingly, I still find that many small businesses still don’t use any social media, much less appear on a range of platforms. I recommend some presence on two or three platforms. Seek mentoring from established industry leaders. In some cases, the best mentor is one of your best customers. Stay current.

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5 Factors That Set Your Best Startup Funding Strategy

Startup Professionals Musings

With the advent and popularity of crowdfunding platforms, including Kickstarter and IndieGoGo , as a winning alternative for funding your new venture, I find that many aspiring entrepreneurs are confused about the need to ever seek a professional angel investor. They don’t get excited by early stage research, development, or marketing hype.

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13 Ecosystem Builders That Are Boosting Startup Growth

Tech.Co

BlackTech Week was created in 2014, and in four short years, they’ve gained over 2700 participants, 150 speakers, and 3 pitch competitions. Founded in 2013, digitalundivided leads high potential Black and Latino women founders through the startup pipeline with a focus on knowledge, research and community.

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Interview with Jonathan Simkin, SwoopThat

socalTECH

You've got to find each one, and research them online. They've got a program called Springboard, which helps really young companies get set up with mentors, and guides you through the startup process. They act as mentors and help companies grow. Jonathan Simkin: Certainly, it is extremely competitive.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

Both Sides of the Table

I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. MyTime aims to be the first industry-wide platform to help create consistency across the SKUs in services businesses. The company was called Red Beacon. Nice sweep!

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Paving The Way For Future Women Entrepreneurs | Technovation LA Pitch Night

Tech Zulu Event

The ambitiously competitive teams were as follows: The Brownies, with Epic Tunes, an app aimed at live concert goers, to provide information, show reviews, and access to ticket purchases. Entrepreneurship : Through working with their mentors, each team acted as a startup, conducting market research for their pitch presentations.

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How TenOneTen Ventures Is Investing In LA's Technology Future

socalTECH

We also did a company in Northern California, Weoutta, which is a consumer app for making future plans, which is built on top of a pretty robust data platform. There''s a lot of great research and people coming out of those institutions, and creating new companies here. There''s Caltech, the Claremont Colleges, Harvey Mudd, UCLA.

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