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Startup Tips From College Dropouts: Zuckerberg, Jobs, Gates, Dell, Ellison, Branson and Disney

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Although it may be comfortable to start a company with your friends, it is a mistake, unless your friend(s) happens to be ideally suited to their role in your venture. One could broadly recast Gates’ quote by saying, “the best way to prepare to become an entrepreneur is to start a business and study how great startups succeed.”.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. How did you start blogging? “My In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I was starting. Brad on blogging.

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Entrepreneurs Should Forget ROI And Focus On Return On Life – The New Measure Of Wealth

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How did an American software engineer come to own an adventure travel company cited by National Geographic as, "one of the best adventure travel companies on earth?". According to Tige, it all started when he fell in love with a woman from Fiji. According to Tige, it all started when he fell in love with a woman from Fiji.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs.

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Quickly Enable Social Logins with JanRain Engage

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Also, as any changes to each login will be handled by JanRain, you wont have to keep updating your authentication code if changes are made by the login provider. Creating Your Application Start by going to JanRain Engage and signing in. Then click "Get Started" and you can start deploying the widget.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

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10 New York City startups we’re crazy about. Apple event rumor round-up: iPad Mini, iPad 3.5, Investors are no longer compelled to stick to their own backyard, and Southern California is changing the startup landscape, consistently ranking in the top three along with Silicon Valley and the Boston area. Newsletters.

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

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asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace. It was: up-market, exclusive, urban, elite, aesthetically pleasing, ad-free and users were verified. In most instances news is now breaking on Twitter and then being picked up by news organizations.