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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

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Divshot's Founders conceived of their innovative web development solution, which automatically generates professional-grade code during the wire framing process, during a Startup Weekend event in Kansas City. Note: Rincon Venture Partners is an investor in Launchpad LA, but otherwise has no affiliation with Divshot.).

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

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Thus, he naturally viewed Twilio's toolsets as rudimentary and easy to copy - easy for him and his world-class team of VoIP engineers, but not so easy for the average developer. The difference is that VoiceXML does not leverage customers' knowledge of web development. John Greathouse <john *@ *.com>

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CreatorUp Links You With Top Filmakers & YouTube Creators To Make Awesome Web Series

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CreatorUp is the online web series school teaching the next generation of web series creators how to make and market their own new video projects on the web. Any competition in LA? Our competitive edge includes our high quality team of expert teachers with robust media backgrounds and specific areas of expertise.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Elements of Sustainable Companies

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Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. I guess this is how a world-class firm like Sequoia Capital finds and invests in world-class companies such as Google, Yahoo!, Outwit the competition. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy. ReaXions, Inc.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 3.0: Internet advertising is good. No, it’s bad. Oh wait… it IS good!

Frank Addante

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Every person on my team was A-class. (Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy. ReaXions, Inc.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

Frank Addante

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. In Silicon Valley, people are much more competitive, have more focus/experience in software backgrounds and often focus more attention on the methods first, then the results. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy.

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