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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. Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend. You could just outspend. Enjoyed this post?

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Baroda In Fab.com's New $105M Funding

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Los Angeles investor Baroda Ventures , the venture capital arm of David Bohnett, has re-upped on online fashion and e-commerce site Fab.com , in a big, $105M third round of funding for that site. Baroda has been an investor in Fab since its seed funding back in June of 2010. Bohnett is the founder of Geocities.com.

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5 Flocks Of Investors Looking For An Enticing Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. It was founded back in 2010 by Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi of Venture Hacks , which is also a great place to visit for startup advice. In addition, they serve as a jobs available site for 24,000 startups. Keiretsu Forum.

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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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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

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How did they end up with such an irreverent site and what was their objective? Competition: Chegg (has raised $144 in debt and equity)—estimated by Steven Carpenter ( TechCrunch ) to be 10x more unique visitors than BookRenter (during peak book renting seasons) with nearly $140mm in revenues for 2010. Total raised: $16.0mm.

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What are the Technical Performance Requirements for your Startup?

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It’s well documented that response time has significant business impact: An ecommerce site that makes $100,000 per day could lose up to $2.5 million in sales every year for just a 1-second page delay. Google told us back in 2010 that site speed was important for SEO. For example, let’s assume this is a content site.

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Finding The Right Angel Investor For Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. It was founded back in 2010 by Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi of Venture Hacks , which is also a great place to visit for startup advice. In addition, they serve as a jobs available site for 24,000 startups. Keiretsu Forum.

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