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5 Startup Funding Models That Depend On The Consumer

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These sites often sponsor pitch contests with small cash prizes for funding, as well as other valuable services to support entrepreneurs. Other popular sites for startups, including StartupNation and Startups.co Other popular sites for startups, including StartupNation and Startups.co

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Ciena Solutions Acquired By NetSol Technologies

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Los Angeles-based Ciena Solutions LLC, a provider of SAP integration management services, has been acquired by NetSol Technologies. NetSol, which provides business outsourcing and enterprise application development, did not disclose financial terms of the buy.

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5 Crowdfunding Approaches To Tempt Every Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

These sites often sponsor pitch contests with small cash prizes for funding, as well as other valuable services to support entrepreneurs. Other popular sites for startups, including StartupNation and Startups.co Other popular sites for startups, including StartupNation and Startups.co

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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. Jim Franklin: Sendgrid is a cloud-based email service.

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Will Crowdfunding Replace Angel And VC Investors?

Startup Professionals Musings

Beyond these models, the crowdfunding term is often used interchangeably or confused with crowdsourcing sites, such as IdeaBounty , to get your ideas off the shelf and give you the wisdom of the crowds, or IdeaScale to facilitate the outsourcing of application development in an open source call to others on the Internet.

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Don’t Be Fooled By All The Hype For Crowd Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

This is basically the Open Source concept, where sites like IdeaScale facilitate the outsourcing of application development to the Internet community in the form of an open call. Often they do sponsor pitch contests with small cash prizes for funding, as well as other valuable services to support entrepreneurs.

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Will the Real Crowd Funding Model Please Stand Up?

Startup Professionals Musings

This is basically the Open Source concept, where sites like IdeaScale facilitate the outsourcing of application development to the Internet community in the form of an open call. Often they do sponsor pitch contests with small cash prizes for funding, as well as other valuable services to support entrepreneurs.

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