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Top Four Survival Tips for Small Business Owners

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Health care laboratories innovate, collaborate and share findings like never before. Lean on industry peers for creative ways to support your staff and stay informed about the latest laws and resources in your area. • Nobody said entrepreneurship was easy, but certainly nobody predicted this devastating turn of events.

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Stop guessing your KPIs; Varos shows e-commerce, SaaS companies how you compare to peers

TechCrunch

Varos , based in San Francisco and Tel Aviv, is shedding some light on how companies compare to their peers in terms of key performance indicators, like customer acquisition costs. When one public company in a certain sector communicates a difficult quarter, the other companies in the sector tend to see a dip in share price.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

Both Sides of the Table

Peer-to-peer lending is back! In addition to the P2P deals covered below, on the show we also talked about some of my favorite financing startups ( Wonga in the UK run by Errol Damelin , who is a superstar) and Affordit.com run by serial (and I mean serial!) Thank you to anybody who sent Jason a note on Twitter on my behalf.

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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

I've seen about a dozen companies in the last year trying to help me figure out what to do with my time and how to collaborate with my friends around events. One of the best things any investor can do is to pull back from the day to day of getting pitches and think about high level trends. What areas are going to change? Reader beware.).

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3 Reasons to embark on the EO Path of Leadership

Entrepreneurs' Organization

The travel, perks, and fun have been amazing, but there are three main benefits I’ve gained from being a member leader in EO: collaboration, raising the bar and experience sharing. . Collaboration. It comes down to exposure, collaboration and accountability. Raising the Bar.

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

This is the case when the requirements of these events don’t actually include building a real business or product. Not only that, there’s a hugely disproportionate amount of time spent on pitching for money for these paper ideas. ” It’s true. It’s as if the plan for creating a startup is: Step #1: Come up with an idea.

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Is @AngelList Syndicates Really Such a Big Deal?

Both Sides of the Table

That means if we collaborated on a project we can do an A-Round after a brief conference call.” If you track the venture capital industry it would be hard to miss the conversation going on this week over AngelList “Syndicates.” So there you have it. Many of the good and great of our industry are talking about AngelList.

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