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Do your kids Google Poo?

Eric Greenspan

I guess just knowing we were doing the seminar was enough as she went home and checked her son’s Google search history. At first, she thought she was safe because she had found that he had Googled the word “poo.&# Anyhow, long story short, I responded with, “lol, he Googled poo…he was poogling?&#

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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

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In one year of Airbnb Tracy netted more than $28,000. She’s now the leading marketplace for women’s used wedding dresses and accessories and ranks 2nd in Google for the term “Used Wedding Dress.” She did the math and realized that she could bring in more money through Airbnb than she could by having a roommate.

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This Week in VC with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone

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Clearstone currently invests out of a $200 million fund based in LA with offices in Menlo Park and in India. Palm is a maker of mobile computing devices, including the Pixi and Pixi Plus; HP: “Our intent is to double down on WebOS”; helps HP compete in mobile computing with Apple, RIM, Google, and MSFT. Investors: Google Ventures.

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A Founder’s First Key Decision Is The Business Name

Startup Professionals Musings

Some startup founders try unusual word spellings to make their business stand out, but this can be trouble when customers ‘Google’ your business to find you, or try to refer you to others. These days, it even helps if the name can easily be turned into a verb, like Google me. Easy to pronounce and remember. Make some sense.

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Interview with David Aronchick, Hark

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One of those he mentioned was Hark (www.hark.com), an online site which allows users to find and share sound bites and audio clips from movies and elsewhere. So, we spun up the site, and got it up and going in the middle of 2008, and it just took off, particularly right after the elections. How is the company funded and backed?

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). Google’s AdSense) or some other form of ad. Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation. Image courtesy of Bernhardt Haussner.

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10 Criteria for a Memorable Name for Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Some startup founders try unusual word spellings to make their business stand out, but this can be trouble when customers ‘Google’ your business to find you, or try to refer you to others. These days, it even helps if the name can easily be turned into a verb, like Google me. Easy to pronounce and remember. Make some sense.

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