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How Start-up Businesses Can Get PR with a Minimal Budget      (Editor: We are pleased to share an article on some practical tips for bootstrapped startups on PR from invited contributor Cristy Brusoe of Brusoe Communication. Enjoy.) By  Cristy Brusoe, Brusoe Communications By Small businesses don’t always have the budget to include public relations, yet it is a crucial aspect of success for any business. Even with a budget, oftentimes these start-ups aren’t sure where to turn for PR support. Aligning your business with the right partners is essential in taking the next step and growing the business. Included below is a few helpful tips for those small businesses owners who are searching for a way to increase their brand exposure and bring publicity to their product/service.             Tip 1: Avoid Corporate PR . With a smaller budget, avoid large corporate PR firms that often ask you to w...

Irene Ryabaya discusses how to find a co-founder that is perfect for your startup and you!  Image courtesy of  Startups.co By Irene Ryabaya on April 11, 2017. Originally published on   Startups.co - the world's largest startup platform, helping over 1 million startup companies. More from Startups. A great startup idea is nothing without a great co-founder. Finding the right partner is instrumental to your success: “teams with more than one founder outperformed solo founders by a whopping 163%” says the  First Round Capital Ten Year Project report . However, you can’t just take the first person who likes your idea and call her your partner. Being co-founders is like being married. HOW TO FIND THE RIGHT CO-FOUNDER My co-founder Diana and I realized we’d make perfect co-founders after going on an adventure of a lifetime in South East Asia. A few years ago I became obsessed with doing the Pinnacles hike on Borneo, Malaysia. Diana, who a...

SF MusicTech Summit Announces Their Annual Startup Competition Listen up music technology startups! This week, SF MusicTech Summit announced their annual Startup Competition in conjunction with this year's SF MusicTech Summit on October 17, 2017 in SF's Japantown. This purpose of the  SF MusicTech Summit    Startup Competition  is to spot & promote great music tech companies early, and to make sure everyone in music technology community is tapped in! Enter now for priority consideration! Check out the rules below. Enter the Startup Competition Here

SCORE says almost half of small businesses are creating over 3 jobs Closing out National Small Business Week, we found that,  SCORE , the nation’s largest network of volunteer, expert business mentors, has published its inaugural “ Megaphone of Main Street: Report on America’s Small Businesses .”  Originally collected data and focusing on small businesses, the survey data was collected from 18,000 respondents in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., representing small businesses of varied sizes in a broad coverage of industries. SCORE has collected this data annually for eight years through its annual Client Engagement survey, conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers. However, this is the first time that selected statistics (showcasing small business owners’ experiences and sentiments in fiscal year 2016) will be shared with the general public. Check out the infographic below.

FoodBytes! By Rabobank is Heading to Boulder Showcasing Innovative Startups in Food and Ag Tech Food and Ag Tech (photo courtesy of Pablo by Buffer) Rabobank,   a premier bank to the global food and agribusiness industry, has announced that   FoodBytes !  is coming to  Boulder, Colorado  this fall. FoodBytes! Boulder will be held at the  University of Colorado Boulder  at Folsom Fields’  Byron R. White Club  on Wednesday, October 26 and will bring together food, tech and agriculture startups alongside agribusiness executives and industry influencers. FoodBytes! Boulder invites startups interested in presenting their ideas to apply  here  by Monday, September 12 11:59 PM MT . Ten companies will be announced as the FoodBytes! Boulder finalists and will give a five-minute pitch, while 10 runners-up companies will give 60-second pitches.

Albuquerque Startup Looking to Build Socially Responsible Products  Social Responsibility (photo c/o Pablo by Buffer) Most people start with a product concept. Not many start with a social construct first. Enter DermaTec LLC. Don't let the name fool you. It's not a skin and beauty startup but the beauty is in using technical solutions merged with social responsibility. DermaTec closed a seed round just last week and we are excited to speak with Ahn Le of DermaTec LLC who is looking to change the world with their first product - a skin patch to monitor alcohol levels in the body to encourage socially responsible driving. In this early stage startup, you will get a view of what it is like to take a concept to reality. Ahn also shares his view of the Albuquerque startup culture and ecosystem.

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We Believe In Tech, Startups, Design & You The Nerd Stalker Weekend Edition Tiny 3D-printed medical camera could be deployed from inside a syringe IDEO’s secret recipe for an innovative design team A free bot service, DoNotPay, has helped successfully challenge 160K+ traffic tickets # AI beats expert pilot in air combat dogfight JAM – Online Courses for Kids The Weekend Review - What the 2016 Cannes Judges Think is Innovation Wearable Artificial Kidney Completes First Clinical Trial, Could Free People From Dialysis Why emerging technologies are the next great frontier for # UX Nice Hack: Pre-Paid QR Temp Tattoos

FoodBytes! Announces Judges Choice, People's Choice and Highly Commended Awards FoodBytes Award Winners (Photo by SF New Tech) Rabobank, a premier global food and agribusiness bank, has announced that  Seamore ,  Imperfect Produce  and  Foodfully  took home the top awards during  FoodBytes! San Francisco , a pitch competition meets networking event that brings food, agribusiness and tech startups together with investors, executives and industry leaders. The finalist demo companies that presented during FoodBytes! San Francisco included Salty Girl Seafood, HarvestPort, Soliculture,  Chapul , New Wave Foods, Olakai, Byte, Imperfect Produce, The Salad Bar and Seamore. The event also featured 60-second pitches from nine companies – a group that was hand-selected from 200 applications to open FoodBytes! San Francisco. These companies included MeWe, Six Foods, Willow Cup, Foodfully, ShopWell, Hazel Analytics, Charborn, genuine grub, ...

Startup Blog Writer Taffy Williams Shares Insights into Failure for Entrepreneurs Today is Entrepreneurs' day and we would like to offer encouragement to entrepreneurs who maybe a little down and dealing with failures large and small. We take a deep dive with Taffy Williams , serial entrepreneur, author and writer about his article " 6 Facts entrepreneurs must know about failure ." Taffy shares his years of wisdom with some fun stories about failure and how to deal with it. Check it out!

Founders Space and its partners bring some great tech events to the SF Tech and Silicon Valley Areas Hey Nerds! We have got some great events at Founders Space . Use our Nerd Stalker Discount 25OFF at checkout to get your 25% discount (c/o Captain Hoff above). Full disclosure, I am a volunteer mentor at Founders Space. Check out their events below:

Picture courtesy of Founders Space Founders Space 's Steve Hoffman , aka Capt. Hoff" share his startup tips on "Mentors." In this segment he explains what you should look for in a mentor and his thoughts on characteristics of a good mentor. Check out what Steve has to say.

The Startup Episode 1: Welcome to LA - watch more funny videos You might get a laugh out of this new Comedy web series called the Startup. It's based on our real experience of working at the biggest venture-funded startup failure in US history. For every fantastic startup that makes it big, there's a million of these, and sometimes people should be reminded of that. Anyone who is interested in Startups will probably get a good laugh watching this. It stars Parvesh Cheena from Outsourced, Peter Shinkoda from Falling Skies / Daredevil and James Kyson from Heroes. They even got their own Victoria's Secret Angel in it. Manish starts his new job at Pump'd- LA's hottest new media startup. Within his first few minutes on the job, he sees his dream job becoming a nightmare. Starring Parvesh Cheena, Peter Shinkoda, Sonal Shah, James Kyson, Aurelia Scheppers, Linc Hand, K.Harrison Sweeney, Zabeth Russell, Bryan Coffee, James Giordano, Julia Carpenter, Chris...

Happy New Year everyone. We wrap a great year of  Startup Blog  Insights for 2014 with the Top 10 articles of the Startup Blog with Taffy Williams -- Examiner.com writer and entrepreneur. We do a deep dive on the top 10 blogs of 2014 with Taffy's insights into what he feels made them one of the top hits for 2014. Let's start off 2015 right, g ive it a listen or view!

Merry Christmas startups and tech nerds! Our friends at RevMob  have put together a great infographic for Mobile App startups to take notice. If you are in mobile app marketing or just a mobile app entrepreneur, you may want to dust off a mobile ad campaign ASAP. Imagine all those new devices being opened today and tomorrow around the world. The number of app installs, vital mobile Ad metrics such as eCPMs  (effective cost per thousand impressions), CVRs (Conversion Rate) and CTRs  (Click Through Rate) all see a drastic boost in the November- January timeframe each year and peaking now. Check out the infographic! - SocialGreg

Picks of the Week: Where We’re Going Next | Adaptive Path http://bit.ly/1o5ghmF Google hit by more than 144,000 'right to be forgotten' requests http://bit.ly/1stJnfG (Lance Whitney / CNET) Coin vs Plastc vs Final: New credit card concept focuses on security | BGR http://bit.ly/1vWXyJ9 Stalking Greatness: This Cryptocurrency May Save America http://bit.ly/1qmhNew RoomAlive transforms your living room into an interactive video game http://bit.ly/1o5hEBN Google Ordered To Remove 122 Search Results Possibly Damaging Complainer’s Reputations http://bit.ly/1smVa0d (Akky Akimoto / Asiajin) Speed Round: Two Engineers Have Created the Doll Every Young Girl Should Be Playing With - Mic http://bit.ly/1vWVOPZ What to expect at Salesforce.com's Dreamforce pcworld.com/article/282517 … via @pcworld (Chris Kanaracus / PC World) What Everyone's Getting Wrong About Home Automation http://bit.ly/1o5hJp5 49ers Quarterback Colin Kaepernick Flouts Beats Ban, Ge...

The startup heart of the UK is Belfast, Northern Ireland? Well, that seems to be what Aaron Taylor thinks who has organized an event called  Friday Night Mashup into a TEDx meets Shark Tank meets SxSW in Northern Ireland. Aaron sits in a place where the   knowledge economy growing three times faster than the rest of the  UK . We talk with Aaron who discusses not only why the Friday Night Mashup is truly quirky as well as the desire to get Bono to his event someday. Check it out!

What's BD? BD or Business development is often confused with marketing or sales. It is really a combination of those and a lot of different other skills with the ability to connect your startup with a new base of users, technology and long-term revenue sources. The Nerd Stalker crew were pleased to talk with Nathan Beckord , CEO and co-founder of Foundersuite , who produces the Startup Business Development event. Find out what makes this event special.

Picks of the Week: Mantything https://manything.com/manything/ "Breaking: Art Student Makes Synthetic Leaf, Solves Everything" ( Kat Bauman / core77) bit.ly/1zF4ZXD Let people control the music http://www.tracktl.com/ Google Glass Alert: Potential health risks from wireless radiation bit.ly/1u1MA7g    (Dr. Joel Moskowitz / UC Berkeley) Pinterest Messaging http://about.pinterest.com/en/messages Wikimedia Won't Take Down This Photo Because a Monkey Took It via @Gizmodo feedly.com/e/UOscL8eX ( Ashley Feinberg /Gizmodo) Speed Round: Shazam for mac https://itunes.apple.com/US/app/id897118787?mt=12 The Russian 'hack of the century' doesn't add up (russel Brandon / TheVerge)  bit.ly/1shIEv2 Devices.css http://marvelapp.github.io/devices.css/ Old Frenemies Google and Barnes & Noble Unite to Fight Amazon feedly.com/e/ZYqvzybL ( Issie Lapowsky / Wired)  via @WIRED Dropcam breakdown by AV insider http://is.gd/koYumi ...