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What The Heck Does “Traction” Really Mean To A VC?

InfoChachkie

Five broad sources of independent, third-party validation are: Customers, Partners, Distributors, Industry Experts and other Stakeholders. For instance, validation that directly supports your company's underlying value proposition is more valuable than corroboration that indirectly suggests customers might ultimately adopt your solution.

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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

InfoChachkie

The company posted a Show HN entry entitled, " We built a better solution for customer analysis and support.". You definitely have a nice start. In a few instances, developers spent their weekends and evenings writing inferior versions of Microline's tools that they then released as free, open source alternatives.

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

Both Sides of the Table

By definition, you read blogs. But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about. I’ll bet your customers, business partners or suppliers would love similar. accessibility.

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Samsung Galaxy S Review

Tech Zulu Event

The Samsung Galaxy S definitely deserves a double take at the least. RSS reader. Swype, Write & Go. Allowing you to open a new tab, Add RSS feeds (if any), switch tabs, refresh the page, go forward, and open bookmarks. A bright and beautiful screen thanks to the Super AMOLED display. MID/AC3/IMY/FLAC/XMF.

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Why You Should Write. Why You Should Write.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

SoCal Delicious

301 URI messed up by Google", TRUE, 301); header("Location: $canonicalUri"); exit; } } By definition, heuristic checks barely scratch the surface. Use possible input ($errSrc, $errMsg, …) from the caller to customize the error page. It was fun to write, so go get the best out of it. uriParts["fragment"]; } header("HTTP/1.1

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The Entrepreneur Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

That by definition means you were hot. I know that people prefer to use Twitter as their RSS feed these days but wanted to remind anybody else that you can still get the traditional feed. I’m not just writing that “I love entrepreneurs&# to curry favor with startup CEO’s. That by definition means you were hot.