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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

November 2005 Venture funding works like gears. I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison. Some angel investors join together in syndicates. Want to start a startup? Many are underfunded.

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How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

mashable.com

It also means that developers that choose to create HTML5 web apps for the desktop — like for the Google Chrome Web Store — can often use the same code when crafting an app for the iPad or for other tablets. Using and testing such a jumble of inter dependant code / css/ hardware / browser is death by 1000 cuts.

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HOW TO: Sign Up Users Even Before You Launch Your Startup

mashable.com

Another way is get behind the power blogs such as mashable, techcrunch and get them to write a review or do an interview for your solution. Can we put our demo video on the launchrock page? But what you CAN do is put in the notification bar at the top with a link to your demo video.

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7 Common Mistakes Startups Make on Accelerator Program Applications

mashable.com

I’ve reviewed hundreds of startup pitches and I can tell you that everyone makes the same types of errors. Ignoring Your Faults You might have all sorts of shortcomings — it’s your first startup, you’re inexperienced, ignorant about how “sales&# works, you have buggy software, etc. It’s OK.