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PromoJam's New Social Promotion Tool Surfaces Esri Startup Effort

socalTECH

The tool, which lets users analyzing the web traffic from their promotions, lets users click into a map of where users are interacting with their promotions, and get detailed demographics data--household income, education, net worth, neighborhood data, and more--at the street level.

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10 Ways To Get The Capital You Need For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

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. These are government funds allocated to support new technologies and important causes, like education, medicine, and social needs.

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5 Unique Elements Make A Winning Selling Proposition

Startup Professionals Musings

Educated customers ready and able to pay for the solution. Truly disruptive technology solutions are suspect, since many fear change and are not motivated to move away from current approaches. Investors know that extra time and money are required to educate the market to whole new things, like the move from horses to automobiles.

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10 Alternative Funding Sources For Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

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. These are government funds allocated to support new technologies and important causes, like education, medicine, and social needs.

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Why Acceptance of Failure is Critical to Startup Success

Both Sides of the Table

But even more important than personal lessons of failure, I believe acceptance of failure at a societal level is one of the key ingredients that allows the technology startup industry in the US to flourish. I say this as somebody who has lived in 6 countries and worked in 9 — having lived abroad for 11 years of my work life.

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Blackboard Acquires Elluminate and Wimba

Tech Zulu Event

Elluminate and Wimba offer advanced virtual classroom technology that allows education institutions to hold synchronous live courses over the Web, including audio, video, white board and social learning capabilities. It will be a standalone platform in the company's education solutions. Blackboard Inc. and Wimba Inc.

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Inventor Or Innovator – Which Are You?

InfoChachkie

Philo Farnsworth created a technology which underlies one of the 20 th Century’s most ubiquitous products, yet he died a man of modest means and is relatively unknown today. He was primarily motivated by the educational potential of his invention, not the wealth it might generate. Philo was an inventor, not an innovator.

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