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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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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. Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend. You could just outspend. Disruptive.

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Invested.in Launches Social Fundraising Site

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announced today that it is launching today at the DEMO Spring 2010 conference in Palm Desert. The firm, which is self funded, says that it allows individuals, businesses, and nonprofits to raise money for any project, using social media. Los Angeles-based Invested.in The company is headed by Alon Goren. READ MORE>>.

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Social Media Accounts are Intellectual Property

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You need all these before you start looking for funding. Social media accounts. Immediately go to relevant social media sites and grab the same name, even if you never plan to use the accounts. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents.

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SocialAnnex Backed By Who's Who Of SoCal Angels

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Los Angeles-based SocialAnnex , a startup helping online retailers to use social media to spur sales, has scored a round of funding from a who's who of Southern California technology angels, the firm said Tuesday. As part of the funding, the firm said that Pourzanjani has joined the company's advisory board.

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Interview with Jeremy Gocke, Fliptu

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With the proliferation of social media, how do you--as a brand--manage all of those various websites, content, and media? Los Angeles-based Fliptu (www.fliptu.com), headed by Jeremy Gocke , thinks it has this figured out, by providing a central place to access a brand's content, across social networks.

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Interview with Rob Reed, MomentFeed

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Los Angeles-based MomentFeed (www.momentfeed.com) is looking to sort through that data to help marketers better tap into location based, social networking. Rob Reed: I was doing social media strategy consulting from 2007 until 2009, what I would really characterize as Social Media 1.0.

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Interview with Scot Richardson, Laughstub

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Scot Richardson: We started our product in the middle of 2009, and the product has been basically available since January of 2010. The problem with one of those is, as a venue, you can build a beautiful website, and click to buy tickets--and you're on a completely different, branded site. So, how long has the company been around?