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6 Keys To Selecting The Right Business Future For You

Startup Professionals Musings

In my view, no amount of academic education can prepare you for the challenges of running a business, but real experience will quickly open your eyes to some of the challenges, and let you know how much you enjoy responding to these on a day-to-day basis. Remember that investors tend to fund entrepreneurs, not ideas.

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Taylor Freeman of UploadVR on Building a Passionate Culture for Good

Tech.Co

I saw so many different applications for virtual reality in education, entertainment, mental health and communication,” he said. We started traveling to Sundance and SXSW and these shows with awesome companies, but no one was writing about it,” Taylor said. Education became a large facet within the space and focus for Taylor.

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Venture capitalists ‘like and subscribe’ to influencers

TechCrunch LA

Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. People say we’re crazy, but we know creators are legit businesses,” Karat writes on its website — the company didn’t respond to a request to chat about what they’re working on.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

We had to write a CRM to keep track of them all. How I Think About Seed Investing As A VC - Feld Thoughts , August 2, 2010 Last week saw an explosion of discussion around seed investing, including plenty of negative comments around VCs as seed investors. The expanding pool of angel, seed, and super seed funds is another.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

That’s @MeganBerry to you, blogger and social media expert, marketing manager of Klout.com. It’s not that seed investors are smarter – it’s that entrepreneurs are - Chris Dixon , July 5, 2010 Paul Kedrosky recently speculated that there might be seed fund “crash&# looming. Customer Care Today.

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