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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core - Chris Dixon , May 22, 2010 Google is fighting battles on almost every front: social networking, mobile operating systems, web browsers, office apps, and so on. it’s about measuring online influence and I’m big on metrics as a key element of business planning; 2.)

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4 Founders & Harvard MBAs on Finding Startup Traction & MBAs-as-Entrepreneurs

View from Seed

Matt Prince , Co-Founder and CEO, CloudFlare (Web performance and security to protect and accelerate websites; $72.1 million raised, per CrunchBase): It was January of second semester of my second year, and Michelle [Zatlyn, Matt’s co-founder] and I were brainstorming different ideas to enter into the business plan competition.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. 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). Folksonomy.

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ProfessorVC: Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"?

Professor VC

Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Got around to seeing The Social Network this past weekend. I did a little searching around the web to try and find a truth vs. fiction comparison, but the closest I found was "The 10 Most Glaring Lies In The Social Network" on the Business Insider.

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6 Important Startup Trends that Defined 2011

mashable.com

We’re increasingly comfortable overlapping our online and real lives, and web services that figure out how to make our real lives easier will do well. Meanwhile, some of the web’s best-known companies increased their presence in New York City — likely bringing investor money and capable engineers with them.

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Why Free Plans Don't Work

Software By Rob

Pluggio is a Freemium Twitter web app created by Justin Vincent. He has a great stats page that shows everything from monthly revenue to the breakdown of users by plan type. Maybe we should just skip that free plan and focus on making money instead. at 1:59 pm i do believe it depends on your business model.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. I was just looking at your web site. has nothing to do with.NET, it’s just web stuff. They’ve tried everything. Everything, that is, but.NET. March 25, 2011 at 2:51 pm.

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