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A Night Of #Hackfest With BetterWorks

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I dropped in to check out the contest a few times during the competition and the environment was uplifting and exciting. Sparqlight – parts prebuilt before competition. Quick Web App Builder (QWAB) – parts prebuilt before competition. Welcome to the accelerated version of Startup Weekend. Teams: CoderTie.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

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So eventually you have your company funded but only 2 of the 5 people who started the company are still around. Your contractor wrote a great V1 of the product and it helped you get angel funding. I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you?

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GumGum Makes Images Profitable for Publishers

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Early on GumGum began to experiment with overlaying rich media ads through Flash with photos until technology progressed and they moved over to Javascript. million dollars from some of the biggest funds (First Round Capital, NEA and GRP), is precisely because they solved such a huge problem. Much bigger.

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CHNL – Social Network For All | Interview With John Wander, Co-founder & CEO

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It’s built on Ruby with HTML5/javascript using Isotope. Any Funding Yet? Yes – angel funded by Rod Perth (former CBS, CEO of NAPTE), Henrik Vanderlip of Viking Capital Partners, Gary Jacobs (former EVP and General Counsel of MGM/ Resorts) and several other angels. How cool is that? We love Web 3.0. 1 1/2 years.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

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Within 2 years I was getting 400,000 views / month and had been voted the 2nd most respected VC in the country by an independent survey of entrepreneurs, The Funded and sentiment analysis. GRP Partners last fund is the single best performing VC fund in the US (prequin data) for its vintage year). accessibility. authenticity.

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