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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

Both Sides of the Table

I often talk with entrepreneurs who are kicking around their next idea. Sometimes they’re working full time at a company or sometimes they’ve already left their employer and they’re bouncing around ideas with friends. Even if you keep it dormant for 2 years while you work on your idea. Not worth it.

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

" In this case, he had a pretty compelling idea, had very little money, and didn't have the capacity himself to build it. Have a rough idea of what you are looking for in terms of talent. Ask around for ideas on where they hang out. Show you also want their input on the idea. Is this a Wordpress hack? Is it big data?

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Exploring A Brave New World Of Domain Names, With Rightside

socalTECH

The idea is that a domain is an extension of your brand, and it''s an extension of your name. I don''t think the HTML browser is going to change. Do you think there''s some challenge to the domain industry today due to mobile? Steve Banfield: That''s a great question, and something I''ve been thinking about a lot.

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Mark Suster’s Advice To Emerging Entrepreneurs – “Do Not Do, As I Have Done”

InfoChachkie

There is nothing wrong with researching an idea yourself, getting it started yourself, validating the idea yourself and then asking people to join you.” We just knew that we were onto an idea that no one had thought of and we had better be in the press first because, of course, there is a first-mover advantage. Learn HTML.

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

" In this case, he had a pretty compelling idea, had very little money, and didn't have the capacity himself to build it. Have a rough idea of what you are looking for in terms of talent. Ask around for ideas on where they hang out. Show you also want their input on the idea. Is this a Wordpress hack? Is it big data?

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. When Time Warner & AOL merged it was widely feared that this would be a monopoly that would control the Internet. Social Networking in Web 1.0. Social Networking goes Real Time.

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A Chat with Chris Tragos of Jetpack

socalTECH

I think, when you are a bootstrapped company, you don't have all the resources you'd like in the world to go after any idea. But, you still have lots of ideas. That said, we're working on two great ideas right now. So, maybe it just takes you longer to get there. We're looking to bring high impact into the world of programmatic.

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