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BatchBlue at DEMO

BatchBlue is trying to make it easier for small businesses. more...
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Startup profiled by Columbia Business Journal

Each year, the Columbia Business Journal highlights one startup business that has been in operation for less than a year. In order to be considered, the startup has to send details to the Journal. Many more...
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Overcoming Burnout - A Business Owner Talks Candidly about Entrepreneurial Exhaustion

An entrepreneur explains how she learned to live with her all-consuming addiction -- company building. more...
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Rhode Island Business Plan Competition

All those of you who have the next greatest business plan and sincerely believe you can do it, should head to Rhode Island for this competition. This year's prize winners will get more than $150,000 in more...
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Cisco offers $10m prize to new business idea

If you have a winning business idea or technology that solves a problem, go to Cisco. They are funding a competition. Categories include: green tech, consumer electronics, data centre technologies, mobility more...
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MerchantCircle raises more money - $10 Million Series B

Merchant Circle, a business directory provider with focus on connecting local business has raised $10 million of series B funding. more...
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Delivering Content for FREE is complicated

Tim Orielly reflects on the Free business model. What may work for one content publisher may not work for others, means one size does not fit all. A must read to startups offering free services. more...
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Entrepreneur and his skateboard business

45-year-old entrepreneur, Frank Davern an Orange County native, stumbled onto the unmet need for a girls' skateboard by accident. Now, his website at www.coolgirlskateboards.com, was not meant to be his more...
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Meebo + Platform + VideoEgg Ads Makes Business Sense

Marshall Kirkpatrick examines this new business case: Meebo is the leading web IM service, claiming a total of 6.5 million unique users logging in monthly. Videoegg has been around and if the two of them more...
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What will make Twitter a billion-dollar business in 12-24 months.

Imagine if every 10th, 20th, or 100th tweet was an advertisement. Would that be so horrible? No, not at all. "your free Twitter account is brought to you by Apple's iPhone" would be perfectly acceptable more...
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