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10 Tips For A New Venture To Survive The Early Years

Startup Professionals Musings

This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies. Join a startup incubator. Bartering technically means exchanging goods or services as a substitute for money. Apply for contests and business grants.

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8 Tips for Making Real VC Connections

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This is sort of a repeat of my last tip, but such an important one that it bears calling out on its own. You should also check out TheFunded , but beware of the bias that can be built in to these reviews. Consider Incubators. But for new entrepreneurs, a good incubator program can be a great option. Target Connectors.

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

It is often the fortuitous mixture of new technologies, customer awareness and then acceptance of the technology and then the slow adoption into our daily lives that leads to markets exploding. This is the so-called “tipping point.&# It is at this point that your startup needs to consider “ going fat.&#

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REACH Connected Future | Cleantech Recap

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It’s almost been a work week since Techzulu and Gadget Review’s REACH | The Connected Future and we’re still reeling with excitement. Today, the conversation on Cleantech with a panel of entreprenurs, doing work as local VC’s, university, incubators, and startups. Technology Drives Carbon Reduction.

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This Philanthropist Is Winning Skirmishes With Poverty By Tapping Into An Inner City’s Entrepreneurial Spirit

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It performs "due diligence" before it makes "investments" and it measures results as a "return on its investment.". ABC has even created an incubator-style program in which startup non-profits compete for $100,000 in seed funding. ABC is applying entrepreneurial principles to the art of charity.

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Source13 Gathers the Biggest Names in Mobile

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John Busher, Harry Balls – a humorous site offering reviews and information about mobile apps, primarily indie games. Watch the video to hear Busher’s tips on how to effectively reach out to bloggers and get publicity for your apps using release distribution services, developer diaries, visual assets, teaser trailers and more.

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