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Visit to Case Foundation and Startup America

David Teten

Michael Smith, leader of the Social Innovation team at the Case Foundation , introduced the Foundation as a non-profit started in 1997 by Steve Case (AOL co-founder) and his wife, Jean Case. Case Foundation didn’t have a website until 2005, although founded 1997. We’re not just focused on NY/Boston/Silicon Valley.

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The Communication Secrets Of The World’s Greatest Salesman

Duct Tape Marketing

I analyzed all the, all of the letters, put them through software tools. If you look at readability statistics or readability software, it's measured by grade level. Flat, you've flywheel, you know, in every startup, you know, Silicon Valley, you know, entrepreneur is using, you know that as Exactly.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Back in 1997, when I was a high school junior and my brother Evan was a freshman, we launched a local moving service called Meathead Movers. Previously, I had worked in creating shrink-wrapped software products for 10 years and then headed a dotcom venture which failed. It also made me Silicon Valley’s longest serving CEO. .

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Startups and small biz at SXSW: ideas on how to spend your time at the conference!

crowdSPRING Blog

Ross and I will be speaking at South by Southwest again this year and hope that you’ll join us there for our talk titled “ Third Coast: How to Be a Startup Outside of Silicon Valley.&# A social translation program is one way you can make your website more accessible to a global audience for less. 03:30 PM: Moon 2.0:

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The Future of Television & The Digital Living Room

Both Sides of the Table

If you’re an OEM who wants to move more hardware but you don’t have the muscle to create an entire media ecosystem then you’re best off finding a partner who can build a software OS, app platform and search capabilities. Not because they are bad companies – but because software is not a core competency.

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Design for Startups: The Aesthetics of Web Apps in 6 Questions

www.readwriteweb.com

Although a large portion of audiences still use Internet Explorer, especially in corporate environments, designers arent afraid to provide Safari, Firefox, and Opera users an enhanced design through the usage of CSS-based rounded corners, shadowed text, CSS gradients, box shadows, etc. Lesson learned KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE. Bonus round!

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A dumb American’s perspective on investing in Southeast Asia

Hippoland

We recently announced at Hustle Fund that we will start investing in Southeast Asian software startups, and my new business partner Shiyan Koh, who just moved back home to Singapore, will be leading the charge on that. This really resembles the era when in Silicon Valley we had Yahoo, EBay, and Craigslist.

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