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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Will you validate new members’ email addresses and/or phone numbers? Do they generate emails or push notifications? Email / SMS Does your application send out transactional emails or SMS messages? Graphic design? UI/UX design? If so, will you also have your own account system? For customer service?

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Equity Investment Platform Preparation Best Practices

Startup Professionals Musings

I recommend an easier way – using an investment platform like Gust, EquityNet or SeedInvest. Another advantage of online investor and equity crowdfunding platforms is that they will force you to pull together your story and documentation in a more consistent and complete fashion than you might otherwise bother.

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7 Grants For Black-Owned Businesses to Apply For in 2024

Tech.Co

In spite of these roadblocks, there are a growing number of Black-owned business grants available, designed to help close the gap and make the business landscape more diverse. Department of Commerce MBDA is a Federal grants program designed to support the growth of minority-owned businesses across the US.

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20 Best Free and Paid Tools for Startups in 2023

Tech.Co

Business tools — from customer relationship management ( CRM ) platforms to accounting software — help to save startups time and money by automating key processes and maximizing efficiency. The video conferencing platform welcomes over 300 million daily users, and enjoys some of the best name recognition in the industry — and for good reason.

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3 Sales Tips for Startups – Creating a Burning Platform

Both Sides of the Table

They generated an enormous amount of inbound leads through PR, email blasts and heavy efforts with analysts such as Gartner Group, IDC, Aberdeen Group, etc. If you’re not ready to buy then you go into an email database. In products designed to sell directly on the web the process is no different.

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App development shop V/One is giving away 50,000 free mobile app builds to budding LA mobile businesses

TechCrunch LA

The Los Angeles-based app development shop, V/One , is giving away 50,000 free mobile app builds through the rest of April as the company officially launches its platform for would-be, LA-based mobile app moguls. Essentially speaking, if you can design it it can be made a functional app in our builder,” Redman wrote in an email.

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GM exits car-sharing business and shuts down Maven

TechCrunch LA

The company sent an email to customers Tuesday that after examining the business, the car-sharing industry and COVID-19, it decided to shutter the service permanently. Below is a screenshot of the email sent Tuesday morning to Maven customers. Image Credits: Screenshot/Maven email. The Verge was the first to report the story.