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May Business Angels Spread Their Wings Over Kenya?

Transformify

The founding of M-Pesa in 2007 inspired many young people to undertake entrepreneurial risks. Kenya has many advantages, including experienced software engineers, healthy early-stage startup community, with good incubator and accelerator support, and enthusiastic and motivated young entrepreneurs.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Now, for very early stage companies, you may be thinking, “I don’t have any cash, so outsourcing isn’t an option.&# To that I say baloney.

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After Raising $6.7M For Startups And Winning SEC Approval, AngelList Opens Up Investment Platform To More Companies

techcrunch.com

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. In December, AngelList , a service that matches early-stage startups with investors, debuted the ability to allow accredited investors to actually invest in startups on the platform with as little as $1,000.

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Meet Manu Kumar, Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures

K9 Ventures

What everyone can agree on, though, is that there are definitely more seed and early stage funds now than ever before, and more people willing to give money to young companies looking to make it big. There has been a big debate over the last few years over whether the Series A crunch is real or not. That’s what K9 does.

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Mentoring the mentors: Advice and inspiration for startup mentors

siliconflorist.com

13) Portland startups at an “Early Stage”: Start-Ups: Silicon Valley, it ain’t (and that’s awesome) (0). Senior Systems Engineer. Front-End Engineer. Distributed Systems Software Engineer. Platform Software Developer. Software Cloud Engineer III. Email Address.

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5 Infrastructure Tips for Startups

blog.adaptiveblue.com

Click Allow Click Install Now After downloading, Restart Firefox 5 Infrastructure Tips for Startups by Alex on December 18, 2007 · 13 comments Even 5 years ago an approach to infrastructure in a startup would have been different. December 27, 2007 at 3:03 pm Great Tips for Web 2.0 AdaptiveBlue Blog Installing is easy!

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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. Ressi estimates that the debt note now accounts for over 50% of all angel and early stage deals. Leena Rao currently works as a writer for TechCrunch. → Learn More. Crunchboard.

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