She said she would help me to buy materials and the sewing machine I needed (to) create a small platform for myself, which made me so grateful.
Transparency being the buzzword of the decade, John Armato, Sacramento, CA- based senior partner of Fleishman-Hillard agreed to tell us about how branding techniques used by much larger companies can be applied to the small business platform as well.
In Round 1 of the PIF program, the RFP-EZ team opened the door to small businesses by building a platform for small, creative businesses to more effectively sell to the Federal Government.
The programme is a joint initiative of two UNESCO sectors (Education, through the Associated Schools Project network, and Natural Sciences, through the Small Islands and Indigenous Knowledge Section) in the framework of the Intersectoral Platform for Small Island Developing States, and in cooperation with the UNESCO Offices in Apia, Dar-es-Salaam, Kingston and other regions.
More importantly, its goal is to help drive sales for small merchants on its platform.
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Being an entrepreneur who co-founded RockThePost, the crowdfunding platform for small businesses and entrepreneurs, I am deeply embedded in the tech scene.
They are now hanging off the platform on small portable ledges, out of reach of its workers, reports the BBC's Daniel Sandford in Moscow.
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Flash remained a niche part of the industry until around June 2006, when a small stock-trading platform, Direct Edge, owned by Knight Capital Group Inc.
For SoMoLend, this means providing the platform for small businesses to connect to financial institutions, accredited angel investors (i.e. wealthy individuals), friends, family, business associates, and even government funders.
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One of the group's 25 business units, Alibaba.com, an e-commerce platform for small businesses, went public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2007, before Mr. Ma took it private again last year. (The rest of the group's units, including Taobao, Tmall and Alipay, have never gone public.) The financial crisis hurt Alibaba.com, he says, and it needed major changes.
Implementing a universal platform is no small task, but SAS and Lepus tend to gloss over the problem.
Is there a disconnect between the business reality of the small business owners and the platform of the candidates seeking the Presidency?
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The AMD Embedded G-Series APU provides a small, open and flexible platform where system designers can be creative yet still meet strict requirements around development cost.
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With more liquidity on the platform, this small handful of popular portals will be able to help companies get funded faster and with more experienced investors, which will in turn lead to more quality deal flow.
While Belaid was a well-known figure, his party is small and has no real political platform other than opposition to Ennahda, she said.
What Bolstr does is reduce the cost of raising capital and simplify the fundraising process by providing a platform for investors, small business owners and legal teams to interact and track progress.
With the new Luminate platform, images have a small icon in the lower left hand corner.
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In October, MySpace launched two new ad initiatives: MySpace MyAdds, a platform that allows individuals and small businesses to create display ads on the site, and MySpace Music, which sells advertising against music streams on the site.
Six years ago I co-founded Mashery to build a platform that allows large and small businesses to create APIs to extend the distribution of whatever product or service they sell to new customers, and to allow any of their customers to interact with them wherever they want to.
It's no small thing that Mr. Romney's platform calls for a gold commission and an audit of the Fed.
The platform also creates action lists that small businesses can follow to quickly do the marketing that they need to.
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Expertise in developing apps and software for mobiles is gaining momentum, and, moreover, smartphones tend to loosen the hold of network operators on phones, allowing small entrepreneurs to create products on the mobile platform.
Foursquare and the mobile marketing revolution that it has pioneered has leveled the playing field, especially for small businesses who can use the same free platform and, in many cases, far more creatively than the big boys.
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Although many consumer game devices eventually turn a profit, they often hit the market as a loss leader, herding gamers into a closed ecosystem and securing a revenue stream for the manufacturer -- every Nintendo, Xbox or PlayStation game made funnels a small licensing fee to the owner of the platform.
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The platform was developed with the idea that small businesses should have an equal opportunity to access capital.
Today we finally have the platform in place through the Women-Owned Small Business Federal Contract Program for women to compete and succeed in the federal contracting space.
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He likens the situation to the early days of iOS, when smart developers recognized that it was a platform worth building for despite the then-small user base.
One small example of this is that the newest version of the platform is iOS 4.x.
"NVIDIA's ION platform has opened up a new realm of possibility for small form factor PCs" said Wallace Santos, Founder and CEO of MAINGEAR.
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In fact, this is something that the company can leverage to monetize its mobile platform where there is a real estate constraint due to small screen.
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