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PromoJam's New Social Promotion Tool Surfaces Esri Startup Effort

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Among the new features of the social promotion tool released by Los Angeles-based PromoJam earlier this week: a new link to demographic data from Esri in it analytics.

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10 Ways To Get The Capital You Need For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Apply to local angel investor groups. Most metropolitan areas have groups of local high-net-worth individuals interested in supporting startups, and willing to syndicate amounts up to a million dollars for qualified startups. They typically look for big opportunities, needing a couple of million dollars or more, with a proven team.

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USC: $380M Raised In Last 3 Years By USC Spinouts

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The study found that about 70 percent of the startups spun of USC are still in business, and about roughly half of those startups have been located in Los Angeles County. READ MORE>>.

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10 Alternative Funding Sources For Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Apply to local angel investor groups. Most metropolitan areas have groups of local high-net-worth individuals interested in supporting startups, and willing to syndicate amounts up to a million dollars for qualified startups. They typically look for big opportunities, needing a couple of million dollars or more, with a proven team.

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Why Acceptance of Failure is Critical to Startup Success

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In my discussions with Korean friends they tell me that there is big pressure in Korea to work for large companies like Samsung over startups (this is similar to what I experienced in Japan) and that the more educated and hard working ones family was the more pressure to join a prestigious firm rather than starting a company or joining a startup.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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Friedman said, [we have] “immigration policies that have our colleges educating the world’s best scientists and engineers and then, when these foreigners graduate, instead of stapling green cards to their diplomas, we order them to go home and start companies to compete against ours.&#. Crazy, huh? That is about 40 million jobs.

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10 Ways Entrepreneurs Find Money To Start A Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Apply to local angel investor groups. Most metropolitan areas have groups of local high-net-worth individuals interested in supporting startups, and willing to syndicate amounts up to a million dollars for qualified startups. They typically look for big opportunities, needing a couple of million dollars or more, with a proven team.