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Hear how the Lean Startup began — and helped one company find success: Episode 2 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Eric Ries and Jon Sebastiani

Steve Blank

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Eric Ries , entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Startup. Eric Ries co-founded Catalyst Recruiting while attending Yale, and continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com.

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Sponsored Poolfunding: A New Way To Think About Maximizing Advertising Dollars

YoungUpstarts

Google continues to evolve and refine its search algorithms over time, leading more businesses to turn to paid advertising models to get the exposure they seek in the multi-channel, multi-device world. Every vendor ranked benefits from the traffic, audience, and leads produced through top search engine rankings at zero additional cost.

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Start Your Marketplace Engines

Genuine VC

Communities like those of uTest (software QA testers), as well as NextView portfolio companies GrabCAD (mechanical engineers) and thredUP (parents), which resulted in marketplaces had origins in this approach. Attract would-be buyers with research/learning about purchasing … suppliers will follow. Brute force a mini-market and expand.

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6 Medical Professionals Who Are Killing It On Social Media

YoungUpstarts

She is not only a popular blogger and author, but she’s active across many other social media channels, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. KevinMD – KevinMD is a website founded in 2004 by physician Kevin Pho. Did you know that the world’s second-largest search engine is actually YouTube?

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We Don’t Talk Enough About Money In Silicon Valley, Revisited

Hunter Walker

In a Slack channel for former employees called Giraffe Money — an apparent reference to wealth that can support casual giraffe ownership — many anticipated their windfalls by sharing links, mostly in jest, to absurdly expensive home listings and boats, one former employee said. 18 was “giraffe money” day.

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

There's a thriving geek culture in Paris, and no lack of software development expertise, thanks to superior universities that produce superior engineers. so it shouldn't be long till they hop across the Channel. The JEI program was created in 2004 and is managed by the Ministry of Research. Want to start up in France?

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Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt?

techcrunch.com

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. Director, Cloud Infrastructure & Operations Turn Security Solutions Architect Turn Software Engineer, Data Turn Web Developer HelloFax Princ Mobile Software Engineer Advertising.com. Crunchboard.

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