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Social Music Streaming With Frenzapp Music

YoungUpstarts

He was also previously CTO of Vivendi Mobile Entertainment, which operates a subscription based PC/Mobile/TV service for music and movies in France and Germany. Bitsmedia currently develops iPhone applications for Universal Music in Europe and Australia.

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[Singapore] 80% Of Students In Country Interested In Entrepreneurship

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percent of Singapore students were “Intentional Founders”, or having given repeated serious thoughts to founding their own business – interestingly, this number is higher than the OECD average of 36.3-percent. for OECD average), for those who aspire to be a founder or successor 5 years after studies. In addition, 37.5-percent

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French Tax Law for Start-ups: Ringing the Alarm Bell

Cracking the Code

While France has been a fertile ground for innovative start-ups, the new fiscal law threatens to disrupt an ecosystem that has slowly emerged over the past 12 years. While our investment focus covers all of Europe, we consider France to be a very important market for our business and we are actively seeking new investment opportunities.

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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

Both Sides of the Table

My Story: The public coming out for my first company, BuildOnline, was in early 2000. Jacques Chirac , the president of France was the keynote speaker. I sat next to Irwin Jacobs (founder of Qualcomm) on a bus ride. Fame and adoration corrupts first timers. million … yes that was seed in 1999!) Idei-san.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images. Stock Quotes. more in Tech. Find New $LINKTEXTFIND$ » smaller. Google Inc.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

Invidi is based in New York and founded in 2000. 5mm in Series A – Investors: GRP (Mark Suster)(lead), Greycroft Partners (Dana Settle), and Matt Coffin (founder of LowerMyBills) – Read more: TechCrunch , SoCalTech. Swipely – Blippy competitor founded by TellMe founder, Angus Davis, in Fall 2009.

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