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Sales Kids With Grit – Web 2.0 Paper Routes

InfoChachkie

For children with a proclivity toward business, a newspaper route provided an invaluable opportunity to develop the following entrepreneurial skills: Punctuality – Newspapers had to be delivered on time, irrespective of the weather, the fact that Sunday papers can weigh several pounds each or the requirement to wake up at the crack of dawn.

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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

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I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 There were tons of young entrepreneurs showing their latest Web 2.0 Unfortunately this was reinforced by the many conferences that rushed to espouse the benefits of Web 2.0 Cisco and others went out to fill out their Web 2.0

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

First Principles. Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. -

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. But let’s be honest – they’re mostly the same old shit as Web 1.0, And importantly Web 2.0

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Angel Investing Skill 2 – Domain Knowledge

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lots of brand names piling on) can lead to group think and price creep. And before that Bryce Roberts who working alongside Tim O’Reilly (famed publisher and originator of Web 2.0 AngelList – as great and innovative as it is – does not guarantee success for investors. Obviously. Want to do a Q&A website?

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Most Startups Should be Deer Hunters

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It soaked up all of our development resources and didn’t allow us to focus on what we felt our company strategy was. note: my internal friends at Salesforce tell me that they’ve really fixed this now and internal dev teams are much more focused on bigger, more strategic development). We had to do intense training sessions.

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Why The Growth Of The Internet Is Driving EdgeCast's Revenues

socalTECH

I think that's what is the main foundational element of a Web 2.0 The development community and web developers, who tend to be our customers, like that flexibility, and the quick time to market. You have to be able to be disruptive to existing products and services.

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