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How Do I Start Your Own Business?

Strategy Driven

If your uptime is close to zero, you need to consider how to use social media effectively. For example, using social media to promote a cruise line targeting people over the age of 55 is virtually pointless. Otherwise, schedule a conference call. For example, if your ad spends cap is reasonable, you can consider running your ad.

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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

Once anointed as Unamano Entrepreneurs, or UEs, they would receive abundant free advice from experienced local advisers, be introduced to local and global mentors and service providers, and attend conferences and meet-ups. A local media mogul had already offered $3 million to get an Unamano affiliate going. Miami certainly qualified.

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Working Out Your New Business on a Shoestring Budget

Strategy Driven

There are entrepreneur outreach programs and incubators that offer physical office spaces, conference rooms and other business amenities at the fraction of the price of the main real estate market. Make the Most of Social Media. In such cases, the need for physical office spaces becomes inevitable.

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The SOBCon Manifesto

Terry Starbucker

I’ve written elsewhere on the history of this annual Chicago conference , and how Liz has been a marvelous catalyst for the magic that has occurred there for the last 3 years running, but today I’d like to write about where SOBCon is going, and why. My partner is Liz Strauss, author of Successful Blog.

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Working Out Your New Business on a Shoestring Budget

Strategy Driven

There are entrepreneur outreach programs and incubators that offer physical office spaces, conference rooms and other business amenities at the fraction of the price of the main real estate market. Make the Most of Social Media. In such cases, the need for physical office spaces becomes inevitable.

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The Benefits of Taking a Slower Approach to Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Having managed a department at Univision’s Fusion Media Group meant to champion such approaches — which showed promise but failed to have the staying power necessary to have true organizational impact — we want to share some lessons we learned along the way. This work needs not be expensive on its own. Start small.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

As a result, top founders prefer independent, noncorporate accelerators, and, to date, no corporate accelerator has truly accomplished incubating world-class startups. He also launched a new website and social presence on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube next to the social media presence of the core BMW brand.