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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 75th Session Spotlights The Midwest

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First up, Priyanshu Harshavat, from Evanston, Illinois, presented Socioclean , a service for cleaning up your reputation on social networks. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. My assessment is that this is a good company that should be able to raise money at this point.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. When I was graduated from university in 1991 it was only the really committed who eschewed the corporate world for creating tech startup businesses. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. September 11, 2008 2:06 PM Editor said. September 15, 2008 9:19 PM James said. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

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Ted Serbinski: Angel investor Ted Serbinski sold his startup MothersClick to Lifetime in 2008 and joined the cable network as CTO of the ParentsClick Network. Roberts talks of social networks as mediums that may very well help your product or name attract VC attention.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Guerrilla P.R. & SEO Most Profitable Customer Acquisition Strategies

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Nifty idea, but the business model is predicated upon selling merchandise that is curated from affiliate networks like Commission Junction. My question was around the size of the catalog that can be pulled together that will render affiliate commissions and will meet quality standards of this business.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: How Do You Bootstrap Freemium Ventures?

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Also, Irit Dabby from Tel-Aviv, Israel, discussed GoodyTag , a neat concept about tagging photos of products differently than you would tag or 'like' a regular link or photo on social media. Irit, however, needs to think through some of the details of the business model, pricing model, and positioning.

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ProfessorVC: Why I Hate Convertible Debt.Let Me Count the Ways

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My partner in Menlo Incubator , Gary Kremen , and I had a recent debate on which one of us hates convertible debt more. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? ► 2008. (14). ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Thursday, April 7, 2011. ► January. (1).