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Is there a peak age for Entrepreneurs?

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This is an amazing read that was on TechCrunch.  I am a firm believer in numbers not lying.  Read below: Editor’s note: Adeo Ressi, is the founder of The Founder Institute and TheFunded.com In this guest post he argues against ageism when it comes to entreprenuers. Ressi is 39.

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8 Reasons To Fear Freelancing

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Many freelancers love the lifestyle once they get into it, despite the difficulties. Freedom to make our own schedule, do the type of work we want to do, work with whom we want to work with and more are all among the benefits. There’s nothing like waking up in the morning and not taking a [...]

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Translation Advertising: Where Shop Meets Hip-Hop

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By Stacy Perman Steve Stoute, the marketing force behind boutique advertising shop Translation, has made a living by pretty much ignoring the barriers Madison Avenue has traditionally drawn around demographics and ethnicity. Ten years ago, Stoute left the music business — just before it tanked — and jumped into advertising and marketing. He saw an [...]

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5 Good Ways to Close a Client Deal

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Do you have trouble closing client deals? Do you find yourself really close to getting a new client, only to find that the deal (and the new client) never materializes? It’s happened to me in my freelancing business, and it’s probably also happened to you. It’s really frustrating, I know. It doesn’t have to be [...]

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How to Get New Clients For Your Web Design Business

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By Darren You know how important getting new clients is for your business. Getting a constant new stream of clients is often the #1 challenge for most freelancers. Unfortunately, most of the advice provided online on this topic is often filled with ambiguity and doesn’t give you clear tips and instructions you  can use to [...]

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How a 16-yo Kid Made His First Million Dollars Following His Hero, Steve Jobs

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His name: Christian Owens. His age: 16. He made his first million dollars in two years inspired by Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs. This is how he did it. This British boy—who lives in Corby, Northantshire—got his first computer age seven. Three years later he got a Mac and taught himself web design. Four years later—at [...]

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Foursquare’s Business Chief on Revenue Plans, Google AdWords, and Why Marketers Shouldn’t Delay on Geo-location

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Despite research showing location based services are little-used and largely unknown, Foursquare’s head of development sees big growth and innovation on the horizon. “We could imagine something akin to a Google AdWords-like model, where merchants can have featured placement based on latitude and longitude, time of the day, or day of the week,” says Tristan [...]

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Exotic Business People

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I have always been intrigued by exotic dancers. Funny right? The majority of my intrigue does not come from the athletic pole dancers, the plastic surgery enhanced bodies, or the beautiful faces that often grace (if you want to call it grace) the stages across the world. I am intrigued by the business. These dancers [...]

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An Entrepreneur Who Took a Chance on Herself

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SIX years ago, fresh out of Stanford with a degree in economics, I had what many would consider the perfect job. I was a management consultant at a prestigious firm, with an office overlooking the San Francisco Bay and a shiny new ThinkPad to boot. My co-workers were intelligent, ambitious and fun, and I interacted [...]

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moBistro Takes Your Business Mobile

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moBistro is an easy-to-use, web based application businesses of all sizes can utilize to create and completely customize mobile websites. This powerful, user-friendly tool enables business owners to extend their marketing reach to the mobile sector while maintaining the consistency of their brand. Features such as traffic tracking, social media links and the creation of [...]

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Move Over Friends & Family Discounts

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With the emergence of several websites dedicated to providing customers with bargains they thought they could only get with a “Friends And Family” discount, this may be the new way for businesses to generate brand recognition with the possibility of establishing brand loyalty; Daily Deal Recommendations. For any success in offering great deals, the product [...]

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How Dana White Built a UFC Empire with Social Media

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When the media refused to cover the Ultimate Fighting Championship, the league cultivated its own massive following through grassroots social media rapport. Now the     UFC is the fastest growing sport in the world, and its firebrand CEO, Dana White, still spends almost every day reaching out to fans on the Internet.

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Video: iPhone OS 4.0 Unveiled

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The new Apple iPhone 0S 4.0 was finally unveiled by Steve Jobs today. Covering HD video, Front Facing Chat, new apps and more. Check out the video.

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Trouble Getting It Up? How to pitch to a Venture Capitalist

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If you’re having trouble getting your business up, you may just need a little bit of viagara to get you up and going. There are venture capitalist out there who are ready to grab the next big thing. Not like that, what I meant to say is………lets just get on with the slideshow!

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Amare Stoudemire Scalping on Facebook? Not so much!

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Phoenix Sun’s power forward Amar’e Stoudemire has teamed with AtCost.com and Razorgator Tickets to turn his Facebook Page into a group buying hub where fans can purchase discounted playoff tickets. Stoudemire’s group buying store () employs a methodology that’s remarkably similar to the ideology that Groupon made popular. The store rewards Stoudemire fans with much [...]

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