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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

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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. - First Principles.

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

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In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. There are now signs the VC market has gathered pace meaning it’s a great time to be fund raising.

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Should You Bother Targeting the Tech Blogs for Your PR Campaigns?

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” If your company was featured there (in the early days of what people called Web 2.0) After that a meme developed amongst many startups (and the advisors that coached them) that, “TechCrunch didn’t matter. It’s also important for recruiting, fund raising, business development and even company morale.

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

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Chris Dixon , September 12, 2010 My most useful career experience was about eight years ago when I was trying to break into the world of VC-backed startups. I applied to hundreds of jobs: low-level VC roles, startups jobs, even to big tech companies. I got rejected from every single one. Some have made the model work. It’s simple.

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Angel Investing Skill 2 – Domain Knowledge

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And before that Bryce Roberts who working alongside Tim O’Reilly (famed publisher and originator of Web 2.0 The founders of Quora were respected technologists at Facebook and knew a thing or two about bacn and toast before setting up their highly sought after venture. Who ultimately invested in FourSquare? Access to Deal Flow.

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Most Startups Should be Deer Hunters

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It soaked up all of our development resources and didn’t allow us to focus on what we felt our company strategy was. note: my internal friends at Salesforce tell me that they’ve really fixed this now and internal dev teams are much more focused on bigger, more strategic development). We had to do intense training sessions.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

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Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 April 20, 2007 8:32 PM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning.

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