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10 Ways for Startups to Expand Their Reach in 2012

Startup Professionals Musings

The competition never stands still, and new opportunities are evolving, based on culture changes in your customers, new technologies, and new problems in the world which need to be solved. I’ve netted out his and others to create the following basic strategy for entrepreneurial growth: Apply your core competency to related markets.

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Will Your Startup Get Venture Capital or IPO in 2013?

Startup Professionals Musings

Based on the final report for 2012 from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), it may appear that IPOs are back as a viable startup exit strategy. For the full year 2012, venture-backed initial public offerings raised $21.5 Don’t try to talk your way to a deal before you have the documentation.

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LawKick: A Modern Way To Find Legal Help

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It took a while to do market research, but we ended up starting an app for law. We''re talking about an industry which is very competitive, first, and two, one that people overwhelmingly try to avoid. That''s why people turn to Legalzoom and Docstoc, and use those free documents because they just don''t want to deal with lawyers.

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UCLA DEV Contest Proves Grand Ideas & Teamwork are Essential to LA Tech

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Obviously these folks were serious about winning this competition, and had no time to worry about who the guy taking pictures with his iPhone. When I asked one of the competing developers, Phillip Givens, what facilitated his interest in this specific competition, he quickly responded with “The sponsors.

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We Have Only Scratched the Surface of the True Value of Twitter. Here’s What You’re Missing

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DropBox could send out Tweets to users when new documents have been added to a folder they are following if they have subscribed to updates. Movie studios are evaluating audience reactions to films and adjusting marketing spend based on early customer reactions to films. Corporations are monitoring service outages based on user Tweets.

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