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5 Crowdfunding Approaches To Tempt Every Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

Even if you ignore all the hype around crowdfunding, there can be no doubt that it is a real alternative for entrepreneurs to achieve visibility and funding today. In Europe, other investors can buy equity, with platforms such as Seedrs. Other popular sites for startups, including StartupNation and Startups.co

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5 Startup Funding Models That Depend On The Consumer

Startup Professionals Musings

Even if you ignore all the hype around crowdfunding, there can be no doubt that it is a real alternative for entrepreneurs to achieve visibility and funding today. In Europe, other investors can buy equity, with platforms such as Seedrs. Other popular sites for startups, including StartupNation and Startups.co

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Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

Both Sides of the Table

Actually, the latter could be a reasonable strategy for super technical entrepreneurs who can sustain themselves without big financing needs (see: Atebits, owner of Tweetie). Specifically we encouraged vertical applications like financial services and healthcare. We didn’t have the resources to do it all.

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Entrepreneurs Should be Respected, Not Loved

Both Sides of the Table

I wrote several of the characteristics when I did the Top 10 (11) Attributes of an Entrepreneur. Back in 2006 Facebook made a conscious decision to encourage the platform ecosystem even if it meant creating large businesses like Zynga (Slide & RockYou were the initial big players) that could make a lot of money off of Facebook.

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Why Hopscotch Is Behind Your Favorite Mobile Sports App, with Laurence Sotsky

socalTECH

Previous to this, I ran a custom, mobile application development shop. Combining that with my previous experience, which was in the platform and SaaS market, and sports, was really a home run. What's the biggest lesson you've learned here so far as an entrepreneur? That's one of th reasons why people are coming our way.

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Dreamhammer's Dream Of Interoperable Drones

socalTECH

In the world of drone aircraft and robots, right now everyone develops their own, on-board operating systems software to run those autonomous systems. Nelson Paez : For the past four years, Dreamhammer has been developing a software product called BALLISTA, which is what we refer to as a drone operating system. What''s Dreamhammer?

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Signal Sciences: Protecting Web Apps In The Era Of DevOps, with Andrew Peterson

socalTECH

In today's world of web application development, speed is everything. Developers are now turning out code and releasing it live to the world in near real time--what is called DevOps and Agile development. With the rise of the cloud and Agile, it's really changed how developer are coding their websites.

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