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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

Both Sides of the Table

She actually IS the prototypical entrepreneur. This was the first in her string of web properties. But Tracy did what entrepreneurs do. Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs. More on that later. That may soon change. She found non-traditional financing.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

One of the most common questions that entrepreneurs who meet me for the first time like to ask is, “Do you miss being an entrepreneur? I thought I’d talk a bit about the differences I’ve experienced between being an entrepreneur & a VC – you know, from “both sides of the table.&#. On Being an Entrepreneur.

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Web 3.0 Brings a New Wave of Startup Opportunities

Startup Professionals Musings

This is the current dream of Tim Berners-Lee , the man who invented the (first) World Wide Web. He calls his dream ‘Web 3.0’ or the ‘Semantic Web,’ meaning it understands user context. He and many other experts believe that the Web 3.0 As you search the Web, the browser records your interests in your local storage.

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Interview with Tom Grasty, Stroome

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We got lots of traction on the web, and the story was picked up in many places. We've taken the video editing process from a silo event, where someone uploads content, edits it on their computer, by themselves--to something we've exploded across the social web, which allows people to collaborate and work together on content.

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Should You Bother Targeting the Tech Blogs for Your PR Campaigns?

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” If your company was featured there (in the early days of what people called Web 2.0) I mostly like to have coverage in the tech press where most of my customers (entrepreneurs) and business partners (other VCs) are. Remember that while the tech blogs exist to report companies at their infancy, the broader journals do not.

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Internet Business Lingo Quiz for Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Many of the investors and entrepreneurs I know still don’t realize that they need to use and understand the Internet, even if their business is not e-commerce. Believe me, the business implications are already critical to your success or failure as an entrepreneur: Blog. Tags: entrepreneur marketing internet lingo business.

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Interview with Marc Friedmann, SciVee

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However, it's a very large market--we peg it at around $11 billion a year, and some estimate it to be as big as $20 billion a year, including scientific journals, academic journals, scientific societies, and conferences. They got an NSF grant, and basically started up the original web site, as a video web site.

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