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What is The Best Way to Explain Your Startup?

Both Sides of the Table

We simply can’t escape our history as hunters & gatherers sitting around a fire and explaining the world to our community. In 30-90 seconds you can use visuals, story-telling, music, stats and humor to get across your message. They were cute videos that often had animation and humor mixed with tech speak.

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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. We're entering another election year, and recent history has given us unprecedented access to information and interaction with our elected representatives. Reader beware.). Open Government.

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A Sign of the Times: Why Saving the Kentile Sign is Important #savekentile

This is going to be BIG.

Not only does it give people a sense of familiarity and comfort in a constantly changing city, but it serves as an important reminder of Brooklyn''s history as an industrial community--a place where things got made. Makerbot has a factory in Industry City. It''s all yours.

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Why You Should Embrace the Power of Creativity as You Build Your Empire

Smart Hustle Magazine

Creative is not a word I typically use to describe myself. In my mind, “creativity” was always reserved for artists and designers, both of which I am not. It wasn’t until I launched my small business, Kono’s Kitchen, in July 2020 that I realized creativity is everything an entrepreneur embodies. Creative Beginnings.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

When my friend and the father of LA’s tech startup community Bill Gross first demonstrated his company GoTo.com (renamed Overture) on stage at a TED conference he was actually booed (True story. Intuitively most people know that LA isn’t just the entrepreneurial capital of the US but it is also the creative capital.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

Both Sides of the Table

I had been reading Brad Feld’s blog & Fred Wilson’s blog for a couple of years and found them very helpful to my thinking so I honestly just thought I was giving back to the community. So you developed a product for the mommy community? Blog to your community. I use WordPress. Blog on that topic.

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How a Fashion Brand in Honduras Is Preserving the Country’s Traditional Culture

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

The Malengu name, an amalgamation of Maya, Lenca and Garífuna, harkens back to some of the country’s largest indigenous communities. I wanted to provide her with the tools and resources she needed to express her creativity and to provide for her family.”. Detail of the handbag Rafael designed using Lenca patterns. “It

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