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Kickstarted Launches Site For Successfully Crowdsourced Projects

socalTECH

The Los Angeles area startup is hoping to make it easier for crowdfunded projects to find additional customers for their projects, by streamlining request for samples, communication via email, Facbeook, Twitter, SMS, and more. The site was founded by Candice Georgiadis, a jewelry designer based in Malibu.

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5 Ways To Safely Sample The Entrepreneur Lifestyle

Startup Professionals Musings

Use LinkedIn to check for a fit, and craft personal resume emails and letters to make your case. There are a wealth of sources today for startups, including Gust , VentureLoop , AngelList , and KickStarter. Typically you can browse them by region or technology to find founders. Kick your networking up a notch.

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Interview with Adam Bernhard, HauteLook

socalTECH

To understand why investors are finding the firm so interesting, and why the company raised such a large round, we spoke with Adam Bernhard , CEO of the firm, about the company and funding, how email has allowed the firm to get past the "Google trap" of marketing on the web, and where the firm is going. Adam, thanks for the time.

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Hire a consultant; ignore the advice.

Berkonomics

Consultants are good in that you can sample their work with short projects, change to other consultants quickly, and stop using them when a project is completed. At one time or another, most all businesses use consultants to fill the gaps in knowledge or to provide guidance for management.

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Celebrities With The Most (Allegedly) Fake Twitter Followers

InfoChachkie

StatusPeople notes on their site that their results are inexact, as their algorithm samples a portion of a Tweeter's followers and then extrapolates relative percentages across the entire data sample. In addition, pioneer Tweeters with longstanding Twitter accounts are more apt to have a higher percentage of inactive users.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

Vivek Wadwha - Campus Entrepreneurship , November 19, 2010 Best Practices for Introduction Emails - Israel Venture Capital 2.0 , March 25, 2010 Weekend Reading - The Mogul Mom , October 1, 2010 Make informal advisors part of the team. Berkonomics , November 29, 2010 Rice Alliance IT/Web 2.0

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In Defense of Uber: An Unbiased Opinion

Both Sides of the Table

My sample is over years. Increasingly startups want access to our emails. Or Google employees have access to your email? But when pressed they equally complain about their existing service also. Yes, I’ve taken many UberX’s also. I get a mixed bag of feedback on Uber but generally it has been pretty positive.

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