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8 Reasons To Initiate A Startup While Career Probing

Startup Professionals Musings

With simple software available today, find a domain name and implement your own website. Use social networking and blogging to get your message out. Also, in most geographies, there are organizations springing up, and university workshops, to mentor people out of work and contemplating a startup. You don’t even need an investor.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

socalTECH

It's like WordPress, but instead of blogging, it provides an online community, which is self-hosted. Alex Benzer: We're building SocialEngine in parallel, and working on a new, software-as-service version. How did you and Charlotte get into software? SocialEngine is a white-label, community platform. We scaled that to almost $1.4

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Bending over: How to sell to large companies - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 24, 2010 This is a guest post by Steve Hanov , who blogs about programming and startups.

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8 Reasons To Initiate A Startup While Job Searching

Startup Professionals Musings

With simple software available today, find a domain name and implement your own website. Use social networking and blogging to get your message out. Also, in most geographies, there are organizations springing up, and university workshops, to mentor people out of work and contemplating a startup. You don’t even need an investor.

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8 Ways That Creating A New Business Helps Your Career

Startup Professionals Musings

With simple software available today, find a domain name and implement your own website. Use social networking and blogging to get your message out. Also, in most geographies, there are organizations springing up, and university workshops, to mentor people out of work and contemplating a startup. You don’t even need an investor.

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Be An Entrepreneur While Seeking That Ideal Job

Startup Professionals Musings

With simple software available today, pick a domain name and implement your own website. Use social networking and blogging to get your message out. Also, in most geographies, there are organizations springing up, and university workshops, to mentor people out of work and contemplating a startup. Get business cards made.

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Xconomy Guide to Best Sessions at Startup Week San Diego

Xconomy

Startup Week San Diego is intended to showcase local startups that are focused on innovation in such areas as Software as a Service (SaaS), consumer Internet, mobile technology, hardware, and defense technology. The event will feature live music, networking, food, and drinks. Keynote Talk by Upfront Ventures Partner Mark Suster.