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5 Featured Startups: Service Providers
It can be harder than you think to find the most suitable service provider no matter what type of service you are looking for. It may seem like there are too many to choose from and who has time to weed through to figure out which one is the best and most reliable? Part of Startup America is connecting startups with startups. With this in mind here are five of our registered startups that can provide various services to your company.House & Hoffman Consultants is a consulting firm that specializes in social media marketing and advertising analysis. H&H Consultants can help you with everything from twitter, local campaigning, Facebook, branding, and general marketing.Property Rocket makes...
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Featured Startup: When the New York Times and Glamour Collide
What do you get when you mix the New York Times and Glamour? The Daily Muse! The Daily Muse is a New York City based startup that was launched on September 6, 2011 that targets women ranging from 20-35 years old. The Daily Muse is an online, female focused community offering women articles ranging from career advice to wardrobe advice. It offers authoritative content, a thriving network, and job opportunities that are targeted towards the educated and ambitious women of our generation. At The Daily Muse you can find daily content on how to effectively write a resume, how to manage your money, wardrobe tips and tricks, and travel advice. There is also an entire section of the website devoted to...
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Content Managed Websites from Accrisoft
Creating a website for your business can be a daunting and challenging task for many. Where do you begin? What makes the most sense in terms of layout and design? With Accrisoft your website worries are over.Accrisoft creates complete, hosted software products that include everything your company needs to take control of your business. The consistent and intuitive interface makes it easy for users to add and update content even if you aren’t very technical. Accrisoft allows users to grow and succeed on the web. Startup America and Accrisoft have partnered to bring 1,000 registered Startup America Firms one full year of Accrisoft to build and manage their website.To access this offer, sign into your...
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Featured Startup America Firm: greeNewit, where collaboration meets innovation
Jason Jannati, CCO of greeNEWit, talks about how he got greeNEWit off the ground.Sustainability is a matter of common sense vs. waste. At greeNEWit, we realize we have the power to make rational choices that help us stay healthy and protect our environment. We work to educate and inspire our society on how to be more careful about energy usage and resource consumption.greeNEWit’s goal from the beginning has always been to transform the energy landscape into an emerging, vibrant marketplace. We believe that everyone deserves an energy efficient home. We are determined, to not only improve the efficiency of homes across America, but to facilitate and streamline the entire energy improvement industry.With widespread energy retrofits, we...
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Explore the Mindset of Successful Entrepreneurs
Have you ever wanted to see the world through the eyes of real-world entrepreneurs? Cisco’s Entrepreneurial Mindset Workshop will allow you do just that. This course is designed to explore the mindset of successful entrepreneurs. Instead of focusing on business plans you will examine the world through real-world entrepreneurs. Through their stories you will get a chance to see what it really takes to start and grow a successful new business.This course is a ten hour, self-paced workshop. It is designed for entrepreneurs who are considering starting a business or for those who have already started one and would like to take their business to the next level.If you’re ready to transform an opportunity...
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Got Startup Experience? Help Enhance the Pathways for Immigrant Entrepreneurs
This post was written by Aneesh Chopra and Doug Rand and it orignally appeared on the White House Blog.It’s no secret that immigrant entrepreneurs make a major contribution to American economic growth and job creation. It’s also no secret that we can do more to attract and retain the best and brightest seeking to come here and start new companies. That’s why President Obama supports legislation to create a visa designed for startup founders, as part of a 21st century immigration system.But we don’t have to wait for Congress to improve our immigration system and boost job growth. Over the past several months, as part of the White House Startup America initiative, the Administration has taken several executive actions...
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Master Challenge—Are YOU Ready?!
Our mission is simple: help tens of thousands of America’s young companies grow to create jobs. Since our launch this past January, we’ve been working hard to bring together hundreds of partners and leaders across the United States that focus on delivering knowledge, services, talent, and customer relationships to registered Startup America Firms.We are excited to announce the Startup America Master Challenge! This is a campaign to engage the most influential leaders in the startup world to help us recruit young companies across the United States to join Startup America. Becoming a Startup America firm enables you to get access to your very own Growth Kit. This includes over $1.2 billion in resources from our partners like...
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Is Your Startup Credit Worthy?
Every startup needs money at some point. Whether you're bootstrapping through credit card and loans or actively seeking VC financing, you need to make sure your startup is credit-worthy. Many startup founders use their personal savings, credit cards and friends/family loans to grow their businesses but don't take the time to establish their business credit and business credibility. But where to start? Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. provides services that help businesses establish, build and manage their business credit and credibility including providing access to its team of hundreds of certified business credit advisors for one-to-one consultations to help Startup America firms with their D&B credit...
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Hire quality contractors right from your desk
Outsourcing provides startups with talent that may not be available locally, or may be hard to find. Employing contractors to help with various aspects of business management and development gives the founders more time to focus on product development.However, this can be a daunting task because it is not only time consuming, but most people don’t know where to begin.Outsourcing has been made easy with oDesk. oDesk is an online service that creates a marketplace for potential employers and freelance workers. oDesk allows people to work anywhere at anytime. Employers can post jobs for free and contractors can create profiles and “bid” on jobs for free. oDesk enables employers to select...
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Email marketing for business of all sizes
Email marketing is a great tool for customer engagement and retention.Email blasts can help you connect with your customers and spotlight news and announcements.But beware, email marketing without the correct tools can end up being time wasted.Now Startup America and Emma have partnered together to bring registered startups the best of email marketing for free for 6 months plus a discount rate after the 6 months!With Emma's tools your startup can:1. Create and send promotions, invitations, welcome trigger emails and more.2. Organize your contacts and tailor each message to the right audience3. Connect with your customers using free surveys and forms4. See who opens, clicks and shares your campaigns on social networks5. Showcase your...
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Did you say a Free Legal Plan?
Let's face it, every startup needs legal documents. And when you're building your business, sometimes you forget just how important contracts and business agreements can be (plus you don't want to spend the money). Well our new partner, Rocket Lawyer has a solution!Rocket Lawyer legal plans enable startups to avoid the most common legal mistakes small companies often make such as: not getting agreements in writing, picking an inappropriate business form, lack of planning, and not protecting themselves. Finally. Easy and affordable legal help. They have put together an amazing package exclusively for Startup America that includes:a legal checkup5 essential business documents quarterlya corporate compliance...
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Startup Iowa Launches!
Today we are pleased to announce StartupIowa, part of the Startup America Partnership.StartupIowa is not a program or function of StartupCity Des Moines, or any other specific organization within the state. It is actually an initiative across the multitude of great organizations across Iowa, from K-12 entrepreneurial instruction through the amazing John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Centers at the Universities throughout the State. It includes professional organizations like the excellent Technology Association of Iowa, to accelerators like the BIZ. We have so much great stuff going on in our small state that it took nearly 100 people and 60 pages to provide a cursory overview of it in our Regional...
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Recent News:
10/19/12 - Startup Communities Across the Country, Huffington Post (Startup America Partnership)
10/19/12 - Bonfyre partners with Powder Keg Conference 2012, St. Louis Business Journal (Startup MO & Startup IA)
10/17/12 - Food Waste In, Renewable Energy Out: Startup Re-Nuble Is Crowdfunding the Local Green Economy, Huffington Post (Startup DC)
10/17/12 - Powder Keg aims to blast Indy startups onto national scene, Indianapolis Business Journal (Startup IN & Startup MO)
10/17/12 - Featured Startup Pitch: Founded by a group of teachers with tech backgrounds, ActiveGrade seeks to fundamentally change the way grading is done in schools, Startup Beat (Startup IA)
10/03/12 - How Tory Burch Created A $2 Billion Empire In Less Than A Decade, Business Insider (Startup America Partnership)
10/01/12 - Voices of the Tech Community: What do Ecosystem Need? The Miami Herald (Startup FL)
9/20/12 - Entrepreneurs make pitches as Startup Maryland and its studio bus rolls into UMBC, The Republic (Startup MD)
9/20/12 - USF-led partnership awarded $1 million to launch new companies, Tampa Bay Business Journal (Startup FL)
9/19/12 - Startup Bus tours Maryland, stops in Baltimore area to promote entrepreneurship, Baltimore Sun (Startup MD)
Startup America at DEMO Fall 2012:
10/11/12 - Startup Connection: Nourishment for mind, body and soul, St. Louis Business Journal (Startup MO)
10/05/12 - The 14 Most Interesting Startups To Emerge From DEMO, TechCrunch (Startup CA & OR)
10/04/12 - St. Louis startups look to cash in on DEMO showing, St. Louis Business Journal (Startup MO)
10/04/12 - St. Louis’ Click With Me Now, Evtron Pitch At DEMO 2012, Techli (Startup MO)
10/03/12 - DEMO Gods: Birds, brains, and the best products of the season, VentureBeat (Startup CA)
10/03/12 - BRIEF: Stamford's eBrevia Wins Scholarship for Tech Conference in Silicon Valley [The Hartford Courant], Bloomberg Businessweek (Startup CT)
10/03/12 - LifeStyleFeed brings the Seventh Art to restaurant selection, VentureBeat (Startup DC)
10/03/12 - Playing recruiter: This startup pays you to find your friends jobs, VentureBeat (Startup DC)
10/03/12 - Don’t like checking your mail? MailGapp may have your solution, VentureBeat (Startup HI)
10/03/12 - Itography hopes to lure advertisers to location-based virtual collection game, VentureBeat (Startup TX)
10/03/12 - Weekend warriors: Track your fitness with Novusport’s social mobile sports game, VentureBeat (Startup TX)
10/03/12 - Today, birdwatching. Tomorrow, saving the entire planet!, VentureBeat (Startup CA)
10/03/12 - Demo Fall 2012: Creating More Focused Social Networks, PC Mag (Startup OR, DC, IA, VA)
10/03/12 - Demo Fall 2012: Business and Commerce Applications, PC Mag (Startup MO & Startup CT)
10/03/12 - Stamford's eBrevia Wins Scholarship for Tech Conference in Silicon Valley, The Hartford Courant (Startup CT)
10/03/12 - RecBob takes the work out of after-work sports, VentureBeat (Startup IA)
10/03/12 - Watch RecBob’s DEMO presentation at noon (Live stream), Silicon Prairie News (Startup IA)
10/02/12 - Meet The 8 Startup Winners From Startup America’s DEMO Contest, Nibletz (Startup TN, OR, IL, DC, CA, IA, CT, MO)
10/02/12 - Cut through the legal fog with computer-generated summaries, Global Reporter (Startup CT)
10/02/12 - Cut through the legal fog with computer-generated summaries, VentureBeat (Startup CT)
10/02/12 - Birdeez app flies toward birdwatchers' iPhones, TechHive (Startup CA)
10/02/12 - Bonfyre Takes on Private Mobile Sharing with New App Focused on Real Life, Not Newsfeeds, Herald Online (Startup MO)
10/02/12 - Three St. Louis startups launch products at California conference, St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Startup MO)
10/02/12 - This Barrel Is Ready to Roll! Launching Our Tech Startup, HuffingtonPost (Startup DC)
10/02/12 - For big-ticket items, social shopping needs more screen-sharing, VentureBeat (Startup MO)
10/02/12 - Flite’s new Touch Ad Studio lets top publishers actually make money on mobile, VentureBeat (Startup CA)
10/02/12 - Bonfyre launches mobile app to combine private with social sharing, St. Louis Business Journal (Startup MO)
10/01/12 - CoPatient Launches Online Platform to Audit & Appeal Medical Bills on Behalf of Patients, Sacramento Bee (Startup OR)
10/01/12 - D.C. job-search start-up launching at DEMO in Silicon Valley, The Washington Post (Startup DC)
10/01/12 - D.C. at Demo: High School CEO debuts Hallway, The Washington Post (Startup DC)
09/30/12 - Hills Bank and Trust promotes four, The Gazette (Startup IA)
09/29/12 - RecBob wins Startup America contest, will pitch next week at DEMO, Silicon Prairie News (Startup IA)
09/13/12 - Click With Me Now wins a trip to DEMO, St. Louis Business Journal (Startup MO)
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