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Startup Tips From College Dropouts: Zuckerberg, Jobs, Gates, Dell, Ellison, Branson and Disney

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HIGHEST DEGREE OBTAINED BY AMERICA'S 400 RICHEST PEOPLE Source: Forbes Magazine, Jan 2012. Bill Gates – “The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. No one ever accused Mr. Gates of being a master programmer.

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Interview with Jimmy Hendricks, Deal Current

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We actually built that about a year and a half ago, and are bringing that back due to overwhelming demand. In the meantime, Groupon came along, and our media customers started to lose advertising. We learned that Groupon was taking their advertisers. We had our contest software, ArtisticHub, driving some revenue.

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Interview with Sunil Rajaraman, Scripped

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to the business of script writing, and is looking to combine a free online tool for writing scripts with matching those scripts with content producers. Sunil Rajaraman: We provide free, web-based screenwriting software to aspiring writers and professionals in the community. What's Scripped? That is the way to attract writers.

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I Just Invested in @Burstly, a Mobile Ad Management Company

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As I naturally get asked all the time why we invested in Company A or Company B, I thought I’d just put forth my thesis in writing. It broke the hegemony that the carriers had over software on mobile phones and the industry will forever be changed (for the better) for this. I’ll explain in detail below. What does it do?

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TZ Startup Hot Seat | Joey Flores CEO of Earbits

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In this interview, we catch up with an amazing TechZulu Spotlight alumnus, Joey Flores, CEO of Earbits , a hand-curated music discovery engine that allows its bands and artists to advertise and promote their own material, events, announcements, contests, whatever. What was the original inspiration behind Earbits? But sell them to who?

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. It was mostly timing.