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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. You could just outspend. You could use brute force to get the word out. Enjoyed this post? The Holy Grail of.

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Study: Users Not Willing To Pay To Use Twitter, Other Online Services

socalTECH

A study released Friday by the Center for the Digital Future, at the USC Annenberg School of Communications, finds that zero percent of Twitter users polled in the study would pay for Twitter. The findings came as part of the Center's 2010 Digital Future Project, a long term study of Internet users and non-users.

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What Does a Startup Have To Do To Get Noticed?

Startup Professionals Musings

According to a recent study done by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, there were 565,000 new businesses created per month in 2010 in the US alone, which is a 15-year high. Engage your customers through blog comments, product reviews, and personal customer service. Building your home base with personal and product traction.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

Both Sides of the Table

Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. Peer-to-peer lending service; started on FaceBook; claim to own 79% of the US peer lending market in March 2010 with a whopping $8,664,750. Knewton, Grockit and others are creating new ways for students to study for these tests in a more cost effective way. LendingClub.

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Future of The Cloud is Bright | Just Ask the Market

Tech Zulu Event

Hulme, blogging at Cloud Commons , believes that the cloud will spur a jobs explosion, though the jobs descriptions will differ. In 2010, businesses trimmed management roles, lowering the ratio to the current 11 percent, Longwell said. The job market, too, will feel a significant impact from cloud computing technology.

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MEI Pharma Partners with Helsinn on Drug with Potential $464M Payoff

Xconomy

Under terms of their agreement announced today, Helsinn will pay MEI $15 million upfront, with another $5 million due after a pending Phase III study of the drug, pracinostat, begins for certain older patients who are diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). months in previously untreated elderly patients who received the drug.

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

Both Sides of the Table

But I’ll judge the angel class of 2009/2010 on a 7-10 year time horizon. Most of my MBA classes were a waste (since I had studied economics as an undergrad) but one totally changed my thinking. I was very active in 2009 / early 2010. We’ll re-compare notes then. Investors are conformists by nature.

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