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Please vote for freebirthdaystuff https://www.missionsmallbusiness.com/

Mission: Small Business℠ Chase and LivingSocial are awarding $250,000 Grants. Vote for your favorite small business at www.missionsmallbusiness.com.

http://www.inc.com/erik-sherman/meeker-report-3-tech-trends-for-entrepreneurs.html

Meeker Report: 3 Big Takeaways for Entrepreneurs When former analyst-turned-VC Mary Meeker delivers her annual take on tech trends, the industry listens. Here's what her latest report means for start-up founders.

http://www.businessinsider.com/what-it-feels-like-to-run-a-startup-2012-5?utm_source=alerts

A Founder's Brutally Honest Description Of What It Feels Like To Run A Startup "It's very tough to sleep most nights. Weekends don't mean anything to you anymore. And closing a round of financing is not a relief."

http://www.businessinsider.com/killer-startup-perks-2012-5?utm_source=twbutton&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sai

15 Incredible Employee Perks That Will Make You Wish You Worked At A Startup Weekly massages, free iPads, and $1,000 for vacations.

http://professional.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304065704577422131523831456.html?mod=small_business_newsreel&mg=reno64-wsj

Start-Ups Crowd 'Accelerators' - WSJ.com Applications to some of the roughly 200-plus business accelerators world-wide have more than doubled in the past two years, as growing numbers of entrepreneurs seek them out for seed capital and advice.

http://www.pitchbook.com/library.html

Private Equity and Venture Capital online platform PitchBook Data, Inc. is an independent research firm providing superior intelligence on the private equity and venture capital industry. As a specialty-focused resource, PitchBook's core strength is its ability to meticulously collect, organize and analyze hard to find private deal data. PitchBook's...

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/05/15/half-americans-call-facebook-fad/

Half of Americans call Facebook a fad Half of Americans think Facebook is a passing fad, according to the results of a new Associated Press-CNBC poll.

Reminder for tomorrow's event http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=6sxakreab&oeidk=a07e5r4s7e4a52086e0

The Green Natties: First Annual Sustainable Business Award Ceremony For the past year, 60 diverse companies in the Greater New Orleans Region have received a full sustainability audit, set goals, and worked hard to improve their overall social and environmental impact in our community.

been reading a lot lately about "buying" followers “ and that is why I am doing the real research of the FB's and twitters by not promoting at all and see where that gets you. who can you trust now a days?

http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/08/the-anti-groupon-edo-launches-real-time-local-offers-platform-tied-to-your-bank-card-for-instant-credits/

TechCrunch | The Anti-Groupon? Edo Launches Real-Time Local Offers Platform, Tied To Your Bank Card. Today at the Finovate conference in San Francisco, a company called edo announced the introduction of what it describes as "geocommerce" offers, which, as the name implies, are offers and deals from merchants that are tied to a location. But there's more to the edo platform than that. The company al...