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8 Keys To Starting A Venture With Minimal Equity Loss

Startup Professionals Musings

With one of the many new tools , and a dose of sweat equity, you can create a website for almost nothing -- and you are on your way to success with ecommerce, your latest invention or personal services. Use your networking to get advice, but all jobs can be do-it-yourself. Use your equity for key executives and business partners.

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Solve, the startup creating an interactive “Law & Order” for social media, raises $20 million

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Mining that same well of a demand for whodunnits, a roughly one-year-old Los Angeles-based startup called Solve has raised $20 million in financing to update the genre for a new generation of media consumers. Solve began as a series developed within the mobile-focused entertainment studio, Vertical Networks.

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MarketCast Buys Fizziology

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Fizziology's software uses social media sites (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Sina Weibo, etc.) and converts it into data and insights used by motion pictures studios, television networks, production companies, and more. MarketCast is owned by private equity investor Kohlberg & Company. READ MORE>>.

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8 Ways To Get Your Business Going Without Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

With one of the many new tools , and a dose of sweat equity, you can create a website for almost nothing -- and you are on your way to success with ecommerce, your latest invention or personal services. Use your networking to get advice, but all jobs can be do-it-yourself. Use your equity for key executives and business partners.

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5 Steps To Finding The Best Investor For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Taking on equity investors to fund your company is much like getting married – it is a long-term relationship that has to work at all levels. Through networking with other entrepreneurs, you should find one or more to visit that have relationships with this investor. Do research on investor visibility via Google and social media.

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10 Sharing Principles Propel Many Current Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

They may not have noticed the wave of “open businesses,” spawned by the Internet and social media. Offer equity in future projects to people outside your business. Shared clients and objectives (networked organization). Set an example by being visibly connected to the people and information you need through social media.

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Interview with Sam Rogoway, Near Networks

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Well, Los Angeles based Near Networks (www.nearnetworks.com) is looking to both reach customers online, and avoid the tacky, lousy production of typical small business ads, with a new service. What is Near Networks? There's been a huge push to engage local businesses, to get them involve din social media, but video has yet to catch up.