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Karmacoin Takes On Virtual Currency Tipping Via Twitter

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Los Angeles-based Karmacoin has rolled out a new, virtual currency, and a service to let users "tip" and reward other users using Twitter. karmacoin bitcoin virtual currency rewards tipping' Currently, users can only buy Karmacoin by exchanging their existing Bitcoins into the currency through a Bitcoin exchange. READ MORE>>.

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10 Tips To Ensure That Your New Venture Is Investable

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Here are some pragmatic tips on how to make your startup more scalable and investable: If you need investors, start with a scalable idea. Most consulting services, like marketing, are not scalable, since they must be delivered by experts, and cloning experts is slow and expensive. Investors don’t invest in services startups.

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Insights: Five Essential Crowdfunding Success Tips

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For today's Insights and Opinions article, we have Melinda Moore , author of How to Raise Money: The Ultimate Guide to Crowdfunding , who gives us some tips on crowdfunding. Here are 5 key tips on crowdfunding. Read the rest of Melinda's five tips: Five Essential Crowdfunding Success Tips. Continued.). READ MORE>>.

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7 Tips For Surviving Your Tough Business Challenges

Startup Professionals Musings

I saw some practical tips for business leaders under pressure a while back in the book “ The Outside the Box Executive ,” by Richard Lindenmuth, a seasoned interim CEO, who has stepped in and revitalized more than his share of struggling companies.

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10 Tips For Entering The Startup Community This Year

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Here are some tips from both his perspective and mine to stave off the coming summer “brain drain” and focus on the next step of employment, or starting a whole new career as an entrepreneur: Create and control your Internet image.

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Insights and Opinions: 13 Tips For Tech Startup Founders

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For our Insights and Opinions section today, Sean Callahan--who co-founded Plixi, and is now working on SlimSurveys --gives thirteen tips for tech startup founders. Sean is also author of Startup Field Guide, Mistakes To Avoid, Tips to Get Ahead , documenting what he's learned over his time in the startup world. READ MORE>>.

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6 Tips For Combining Passion And Purpose To Stand Out

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I recommend his tips for creating and maintaining that sweet spot: Define a personal declaration of purpose. So the question is how do you find a personal purpose and a business purpose that are in sync, to be the driver of business success, as well as your own happiness? Deciphering one’s personal purpose should be priority one.

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