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8 Reasons To Initiate A Startup While Career Probing

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With simple software available today, find a domain name and implement your own website. Also, in most geographies, there are organizations springing up, and university workshops, to mentor people out of work and contemplating a startup. It shows everyone you are serious, and limits your liability on any mistakes.

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Interview with Michele Ruiz and Dan Gould, BiasSync

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Most are not event addressing it, and even in the instances they are, the typical format is to have a specialist come in for a workshop, to train just small percentage of an organization. Michele Ruiz: Robin Richards and I formed the company, after he approached me, after having been a business mentor for me for fifteen years.

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Spooky thought: Where would we be without our supporters?

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Interview with Amir Banifatemi and Kai Tao, K5Launch

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K5Launch (www.k5launch.com) is modeled after the successful Y-Combinator and TechStars acceleration programs, and invests equity, provides mentors, and runs a three month program to get very early stage startups off the ground. All of our mentors are investors as well. What kinds of things are you doing to work on that issue?

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

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Alex Benzer: We're building SocialEngine in parallel, and working on a new, software-as-service version. We have some great mentors now. Thanks to TechStars, we've got an awesome mentor who's co-habitating with us now, and we're learning something daily from him. How did you and Charlotte get into software?

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8 Reasons To Initiate A Startup While Job Searching

Startup Professionals Musings

With simple software available today, find a domain name and implement your own website. Also, in most geographies, there are organizations springing up, and university workshops, to mentor people out of work and contemplating a startup. It shows everyone you are serious, and limits your liability on any mistakes.

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