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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. You could just outspend. You could use brute force to get the word out. Enjoyed this post? The Holy Grail of.

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Four SoCal Startups That Thrived Despite--or Because Of--Economic Downturns

socalTECH

However, if history is any lesson, downturns actually have created some of Southern California's most successful technology companies, whether through forcing those companies to swizzle their business models, by removing competition from the market, or even spurring customers to more readily adopt their products to save money.

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Interview with Jonathan Simkin, SwoopThat

socalTECH

In 2008, the Federal government passed an act which said that school have to show the course and required books for those courses. The act only came into effect in 2010, at which point we built a system to try to find out that information for as many schools as possible. I graduated in May of 2010.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

Both Sides of the Table

Founded in January 2010 by Stephen Hood (ex-Delicious head of product), Dave Baggeroer (Stanford’s Institute of Design), and Josh Whiting (ex-senior engineer at Delicious and Craigslist). Brought in new CEO, Russ Reeder in 2008. Competition: Pingg, MyPunchbowl, TinyPrints , PaperlessPost. Founded in 1999 in Austin, Texas.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

Founded in November 2008 by Jack Moffitt and Patrick Mahoney; CEO is Gerry Campbell (ex-AOL, ex-Reuters/OpenCalais). Founded in April/May 2010 by Diego Berdakin (Ex-Slingshot Labs) and Josh Berman (Ex-Slingshot Labs, MySpace Co-founder) in Santa Monica, CA. first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Competition: McAfee , Symantec. Founded in 2007. Employees: 27.

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Why Startups Are Attracted to Revitalized Lisbon

Tech.Co

Portugal was hit hard by the global financial crash of 2008. Speaking about the move, he said: “What it really reminded me of, without sounding very old, was 2010 when I started the Tech City initiative – for the same reason. Its economy struggled to remain afloat during the crisis and it’s capital, Lisbon, suffered greatly.

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