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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. The “Three C’s” of the Internet … The infrastructure and web services phases of the Internet are built. Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. But what is it we actually DO on the Internet?

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

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It’s tempting to want to stay in your offices and fund raise via email or web conferencing. One of the best sales coaches I ever worked with used to talk to me about “testing prospects.” It’s ideal for people who have VCs all chasing them. For everybody else I would encourage you to meet early and often.

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