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5 Startup Funding Models That Depend On The Consumer

Startup Professionals Musings

With this model, a startup pre-sells their product early, at a cheaper price, in exchange for a pledge. This model facilitates donations to charities and creative projects, and has been around for a long time via sites such as GoFundMe. Other popular sites for startups, including StartupNation and Startups.co In the U.S.,

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NetDNA Connects CDN To Web Apps, Services

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Los Angeles-based content delivery network (CDN) provider NetDNA is making it easier for web application developers to use its CDN services, saying Monday that it has launched a new service to embed web acceleration capabilities into their web services and applications. READ MORE>>.

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5 Crowdfunding Approaches To Tempt Every Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

With this model, a startup pre-sells their product early, at a cheaper price, in exchange for a pledge. This model facilitates donations to charities and creative projects, and has been around for a long time via sites such as GoFundMe. Other popular sites for startups, including StartupNation and Startups.co In the U.S.,

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Will Crowdfunding Replace Angel And VC Investors?

Startup Professionals Musings

With this model, a startup pre-sells their product early, at a cheaper price, in exchange for a pledge. This model facilitates donations to charities and creative projects, and has been around for a long time via sites such as Rockethub. Other popular funding assistance sites for startups, including StartupAmerica and Startups.co

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Interview with Bruce Nash, OpusData

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Last month, Beverly Hills-based Nash Information Services , the firm behind The Numbers --one of the most extensive database of financial information about movies--announced a new service which allows third party software applications and websites to pull information from the firm's database, via OpusData (www.opusdata.com). a month.

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How Sendgrid Makes Sure Those App Emails Go Through, With Jim Franklin

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If you're an application developer, sending emails through your application can be a chore. Sendgrid (www.sendgrid.com) has stepped into that void, providing application programming interfaces (APIs) and all the infrastructure required to handle that email delivery. How do you offload all those headaches?

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Interview with Hamilton Chan, PaperLinks

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You could get the price, learn more about that furniture, and figure out the retail outlets and stores that carry that chair. As part of that, we launched a web site to allow people to order printing online, and we also saw the ability to use QR codes to augment that printing. So, 10 years ago and left to run Charlie Chan Printing.

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