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Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup

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Infiltrate the social networks (Facebook and Twitter) and then try to connect face-to-face. Practice your business development skills; you’ll have to be the socially skilled person because many technologists are shy and introverted. Post flyers around the CS labs. Go off-campus to other universities.

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What Kind of Workspace Is Best For Your Startup?

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August 20, 2011 by Lauren Drell 1 Share on Tumblr email share Share on Tumblr email share This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Startup life is all about bootstrapping, but you need a place to work, right?

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MindKube: A Story of Hard Work and Entrepreneurial Determination

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Natasha Crosby decided to pursue the career of her dreams the day she sold her Ford Mustang to buy the first computer for her company, MindKube Creative & Marketing. In this age of the digital, social network, more and more people telecommute to work, and it has become more acceptable not to have interpersonal contact.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M Partners With Indian Angel Network

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I presented my usual 1M/1M perspective on bootstrapping. Even if there were fleeting thoughts of being bailed out by investors, they have now been banished and we are focusing on bootstrapping and making the model work with customer money." Food ka Mood. Then Sameer Patil discussed TravDe.com , which offers steep discounts on hotels.

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270+ Tools for Running a Business Online

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Since there are hundreds of new apps coming on the market every year, we figured it was time for an update. Bootstrap – Online bookkeeping software that lets you track sales and expenses, organize your records for tax time, and more. NetBooks – Marketing, sales, inventory and financial control in one place.

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ProfessorVC: Are DEMO's days numbered?

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Bump.com is a social network based on license plate numbers as the identifier. However, liked the team, and Dennis Mink, FootFeeds CEO, convinced me of the value in check-ins as a white label service for brands to market to their customers. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"?

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ProfessorVC: How Much Diligence is Due.

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I strongly believe (at least for very early stage technology ventures) that you will get diminishing returns and arguably negative returns once you get past an initial threshold of team, product, market and financial diligence. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Bootstrapping 101.