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5 Startup Funding Models That Depend On The Consumer

Startup Professionals Musings

With this model, a startup pre-sells their product early, at a cheaper price, in exchange for a pledge. Concurrently, I am seeing an upswing in the number of entrepreneurs and startups, with the cost of entry at an all-time low, and the new focus on entrepreneurship in every university and every community development organization.

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5 Crowdfunding Approaches To Tempt Every Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

With this model, a startup pre-sells their product early, at a cheaper price, in exchange for a pledge. Concurrently, I am seeing an upswing in the number of entrepreneurs and startups, with the cost of entry at an all-time low, and the new focus on entrepreneurship in every university and every community development organization.

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How Sendgrid Makes Sure Those App Emails Go Through, With Jim Franklin

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If you're an application developer, sending emails through your application can be a chore. Sendgrid (www.sendgrid.com) has stepped into that void, providing application programming interfaces (APIs) and all the infrastructure required to handle that email delivery. How do you offload all those headaches?

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Will Crowdfunding Replace Angel And VC Investors?

Startup Professionals Musings

With this model, a startup pre-sells their product early, at a cheaper price, in exchange for a pledge. Concurrently, I am seeing an upswing in the number of entrepreneurs and startups, with the cost of entry at an all-time low, and the new focus on entrepreneurship in every university and every community development organization.

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How Nils Forsblom Is Reinventing Himself In Mobile With TenFarms

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Nils Forsblom: TenFarms is a mobile app developer. We build mobile products, not just mobile applications, but products around them. PhotoPoll is our first app to push live, and now we're working on our second app, AdTile, which is a mobile advertising solution for applications and mobile software. I was basically powerless.

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