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How Catalog Is Helping SMBs Compete Against Big Brands

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in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Moonshots Capital, and also included Techstars and Luma Launch. We caught up with Catalog's co-founder and CEO Patrick Ip , along with co-founder Jacobo Lumbreras , to learn more about the startup. Patrick Ip: I was in San Francisco for the last five years at Google.

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

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My company had raised venture capital in April 2001 but we were told that there may never be any more coming. I sent numerous emails for another for a job opportunity and he is now a senior exec at a very prominent startup. They seed funded my second company and even let me buy some IP in exchange for debt to get started.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

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First Principles. Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. -

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Get Inside the Mind of an Angel Investor

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At Sony, he didn’t feel like he could “steer the ship” and get his ideas heard so he left and started GUBA, GUBA had no seed funding. Today, innovation is happening at an increasingly faster rate and , that being true, Thomas thought it was more efficient to match capital to ideas than execute the ideas himself.

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