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The Role of Alternative Funding in Startups

StartupNation

Angel Investors An angel investor invests in a business using their own money. They may also provide guidance and mentorship, while taking the firm’s equity in return for the investment. Someone with a large social media following or email list has a significant edge.

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The 10 best VoIP providers to move your business phone to the cloud in 2025

The Zapier Blog

VoIP is a technology that allows you to make voice calls using an internet connection instead of a regular landline or cellular network. Joel Wolfe, president and founder of HiredSupport , told me that he appreciates how in-transit web requests and network communications are encrypted via TLS. and Canada.

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How VCs, Accelerators, and Coworking Spaces Put Communities in Buildings vs. Buildings in Communities

This is going to be BIG.

Sun's space was for it's customer assistance unit and Cornell just had a demo space patched into a supercomputer back on campus. VCs and fulltime angels bring a lot more than just money to the communities they invest in. On top of that, they tend to be the locus of innovation networks.

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The 9 best CRM software for real estate agents in 2025

The Zapier Blog

I looked into dozens of options, read approximately a million reviews, watched demos narrated by people way too cheerful for 9 a.m., Your CRM should seamlessly integrate with the tools you already use, such as your email, calendar, social media, and direct MLS/IDX feeds for up-to-date listing data.

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Strategic Casting: How to Fish For Your Ideal Clients and Employees

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Lay the groundwork before the event and apply to become a speaker or invest in a tradeshow booth. Smaller businesses may be attracted to blogs, social media posts, and email marketing. I suggest they may be found at higher-level industry conferences and trade shows. If this is the right fishing hole for you, don’t just show up.

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How Generative AI is Going to Change Your Life and Mess Everything Up in the Process

This is going to be BIG.

As it is, we know that curated social networks like Instagram can have negative affects on self image. As it is, I’m a paid Canva user and you definitely wouldn’t have counted me in that target demo as narrowly defined by Adobe’s core audience ten years ago. Let’s not make the same mistakes we made with social media.

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The bar is higher

This is going to be BIG.

More recently, Jim and Vinny the founders of Yipit taught themselves how to code to get their service up and running, after working in investment banking. New York will feature five this summer alone--Techstars, DreamIt, Startl and the NYC Seed/EDC Media and Finance incubators. Don't want to learn code? That's right--Indiana.