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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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I like to use the example of a company I backed called MakeSpace because it’s such an easy an obvious market to understand. For example, if you’re going to build a travel planning website (as many, many startup entrepreneurs do) your basic research would be: How much do people spend on travel books / guides today?

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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For example Twitter , where gazillions of bots [type A] follow other equally superfluous but nevertheless very busy bots [type B] that automatically generate 27% valuable content (links to penis enlargement tools) and 73% not exactly exciting girly chatter (breeding demand for cheap viagra). compatible; …&#. googlebot.com&#.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

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For example, you can transform your longish and ugly dynamic URIs into short (but keyword rich) URIs, and more. For example when you operate a WordPress blog, you could code nearly everthing below in your 404 page (consider alternatives ). For example Yahoo truncates the trailing slash.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

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One obvious example is the OSI model in which we have seven layers ranging from the physical layer at the bottom of the stack (e.g. For every layer if I mention companies please don’t assume that I’m suggesting there aren’t other players in that category. Especially to a company that sells books!

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