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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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Berkeley Boalt Law School and runs their entrepreneurship program. Bending over: How to sell to large companies - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 24, 2010 This is a guest post by Steve Hanov , who blogs about programming and startups. But founders need to know how to ask for their advice and when to ignore it.

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

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In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 It’s interesting that the question is pitch deck’s being obsolete versus business plans being obsolete. So very few investors want Business Plans any more. Is that when it became big?

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. We have also been very busy with our next release, which is due out by December 11th (but I’ll save that for a different post). I look forward to the next phase of our business. I had kept a personal blog for more than a year and was new at keeping a professional blog.

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Stealth Mode Startup

www.frozennorth.org

Friday - May 27, 2005 at 09:21 AM in. This last point is intriguing since, as my VP of Development puts it, "Perl is the duct tape of programming languages." In fact, Perl seems like a downright odd choice for a company planning to build a big service bureau, where scalability and maintainability are critical. Categories.

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How to Attract Talent to Your Start-up

www.inc.com

That was the thought behind Meebos decision to offer a $5,000 reward to anyone who referred qualified potential employees to the company that launched in 2005. They have outreach programs, and the people who are involved are the people who will find you interns and people who will be graduating soon." 500|5000 The 2010 Inc.

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Weekend Favs May Fourteen :: Small Business Marketing Blog from.

Duct Tape Marketing

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Gives you the ability to initiate help and sales chats while visitors are on your site.

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Monday Guest Stars :: Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape.

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SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! His latest book is The Plan-As-You-Go-Business-Plan.