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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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Africa’s Largest and Fastest Growing Social Network | Interview with LAGbook’s Chidi Nwaogu

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LAGbook was founded in 2010 by two twin brothers Chika and Chidi Nwaogu when they were just 19 years old and freshmen at University. Today they say its Africa’s largest and fastest growing social networking utility with over 4,000 daily new sign-ups. 2010 and launched on 25 Apr. What is LAGbook? Why the name?

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

Both Sides of the Table

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. Studying for the SAT, LSAT, GMAT, TOEFL, MCAT and other standardized tests in the US is a massive market that has been dominated for years by Kaplan and Princeton Review. LendingClub. Enter Xobni.

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Carpooling Wants You To Share Your Car, Meet New Friends & Get Paid For It!

Tech Zulu Event

The service can be accessed by computer, mobile phone ( iPhone , Android ) or social network ( Facebook ). While studying at university, one of the founders had a girlfriend who lived in another city. We had instant success in every country where we launched in 2010: Italy, Poland, France, the UK, Spain and Greece.

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Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April

SoCal CTO

Some great posts from April 2010 that talk to me in terms of being a CTO at a Startup. Ben Casnocha: The Blog , April 15, 2010 Everyone I spoke with loved the idea. Redeye VC , April 13, 2010 Startup Development - SoCal CTO , April 23, 2010 Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

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Your Next Startup Will Likely Be Run By a Boomer

Startup Professionals Musings

In fact, according to a study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, these Boomers are actually driving a new entrepreneurship boom. Here is a summary of indicative facts from the earlier study referenced, an update published last year, and others. These trends seem likely to persist.

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The Startup Guide To SXSW Panel Picking

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The buzz words of SXSW Interactive 2010: cloud computing, social, on-demand, sharing, collaboration, Entrepreneurism / Monetization Cloud Computing, monetization, Startup. . The PepsiCo10 program in 2010 saw the company team up with Mashable and Highland Capital Partners to. Startup Survival Guide: Beating the 800lb Gorillas.

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