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5 Startup Funding Models That Depend On The Consumer

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Concurrently, I am seeing an upswing in the number of entrepreneurs and startups, with the cost of entry at an all-time low, and the new focus on entrepreneurship in every university and every community development organization. Other popular sites for startups, including StartupNation and Startups.co Marty Zwilling.

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Murano Software Takes On Google Android

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Agoura Hills-based Murano Software, a provider of outsourced software development, is branching out into Google Android application development. According to the firm, it has created G1MobileSoft, an offshore development company devoted solely to creating mobhile applications.

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Ciena Solutions Acquired By NetSol Technologies

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NetSol, which provides business outsourcing and enterprise application development, did not disclose financial terms of the buy. Los Angeles-based Ciena Solutions LLC, a provider of SAP integration management services, has been acquired by NetSol Technologies.

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5 Crowdfunding Approaches To Tempt Every Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

Concurrently, I am seeing an upswing in the number of entrepreneurs and startups, with the cost of entry at an all-time low, and the new focus on entrepreneurship in every university and every community development organization. Other popular sites for startups, including StartupNation and Startups.co Marty Zwilling.

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Will Crowdfunding Replace Angel And VC Investors?

Startup Professionals Musings

Beyond these models, the crowdfunding term is often used interchangeably or confused with crowdsourcing sites, such as IdeaBounty , to get your ideas off the shelf and give you the wisdom of the crowds, or IdeaScale to facilitate the outsourcing of application development in an open source call to others on the Internet.

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How Nils Forsblom Is Reinventing Himself In Mobile With TenFarms

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Nils Forsblom: TenFarms is a mobile app developer. We build mobile products, not just mobile applications, but products around them. PhotoPoll is our first app to push live, and now we're working on our second app, AdTile, which is a mobile advertising solution for applications and mobile software. I was basically powerless.

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Don’t Be Fooled By All The Hype For Crowd Funding

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This is basically the Open Source concept, where sites like IdeaScale facilitate the outsourcing of application development to the Internet community in the form of an open call. Of course, this might also lead to investors, partners, and licensing opportunities. Software crowd sourcing.

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