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Realtime Raises $100M, Opens Office In Santa Monica

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The firm, which was previously known as Internet Business Technologies, said that it has developed a language, xRTML, that helps convert existing, static HTML into real-time, live web applications. The new funding came from BRTech Holding, a Sao Paulo-based technology investment firm.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

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How are you funding this? What level of funding do you currently have? Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? Are there specific metrics needed for future funding rounds or for operations? Tell me about the business. What are the big milestones you have as a business? What about reporting and moderation?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

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How are you funding this? What level of funding do you currently have? Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? Are there specific metrics needed for future funding rounds or for operations? Tell me about the business. What are the big milestones you have as a business? What about reporting and moderation?

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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

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Assuming normal valuations at fund raising rounds you’ll be down to 6-12% after you’ve created a stock-option pool and raised capital. Putting your thoughts into spreadsheets, PowerPoint, HTML, etc. If you start a company with 4 people you’ve just given away 75% of the value of the company. Get customer input.

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HTML5 Games Company Goko Launches and Raises $8M in Series A Funding

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Goko is backed by Redpoint Ventures and Aslop Louie Partners from whom it raised raised $8m in Series A funding. Goko wants to work with developers to across the world to reinvent the popular HTML board and card games. The post HTML5 Games Company Goko Launches and Raises $8M in Series A Funding appeared first on TechZulu.

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Interview with Rahul Sonnad, Geodelic

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We caught Rahul in a more serious conversation, and spoke to him about his venture funded, location-based information startup and what it's up to, as well as got the story behind the firm's incubation at Clearstone Ventures. You're funded, correct? First, for folks who haven't heard of Geodelic, what do you do?

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

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It needs to be funded to be successful. There's a cutoff point once you reach roughly 3 person months of development time. At that point, you can't really just try to find someone to build it on the side, do equity only, etc. The grind is too much and too long if it gets beyond that size. What do you do if you don't know the size?