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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

Kapor is the original designer of Lotus 1-2-3 and former CEO of Lotus Development. In 2006, Kapor founded Foxmarks, a popular Firefox Firefox add-on later renamed Xmarks Xmarks. Founders can make in-person connections, however, with Qualcomm Ventures at various demo events, conferences and trade shows.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Thus had to spend hard cash building a half way completed demo outsourced to India. Now, I know that I need to build all the demo of my product A.L.O.N.E. I would add that having a business such as a web development contract service would bring in cash-flow allowing the main founders to keep alive and grow the vision and initial beta.

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

blog.expensify.com

I was at a startup AND I developed an evented I/O server with pluggable protocol handlers AND it was capable of handling the c10k problem AND I did this back in 2006 with C# on.NET 2.0 I gather you assume that everyone’s a web developer? If I were at a startup… no wait. March 25, 2011 at 11:57 pm. So clueless.

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