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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

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Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. Blue Coin Last up, Sunil Sharma from Walnut Creek, California, presented Blue Coin, a loyalty program management platform and service catering to small to medium size businesses. Thursday, June 30, 2011: Register Here.

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Free Startup Docs: How Much Equity Should Advisors Get?

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Thursday, September 22nd, 2011. San Francisco, California. 2011 Holiday. Your guide for the best gadget gifts of 2011. Project Manager Dice Holdings Software Engineer, Python, YouTube Google/YouTube Web Developer Yelp Inc. Disrupt SF. Startup Battlefield. Rip Empson. View Staff Page. Follow me on twitter.

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Startup Act 3.0: A New Hope For Immigrant Entrepreneurs?

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One of the company’s four employees, its software engineer, is not an American citizen. That version failed to gain traction, as did a 2011 proposal that didn’t get far either. To remain competitive, we need more engineers and scientists. The story of pivoting direction is common in the U.S. start-up world.

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Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt?

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Yokum Taku, Corporate and Securities Partner at the Palo Alto, California Office of Wilson Sonsini agrees, “I can’t think of a good reason not to shift early stage seed financings toward convertible equity away from convertible debt.”. San Francisco, California. 2011 Holiday. Your guide for the best gadget gifts of 2011.

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Bright Unveils A Data-Driven Approach To The Job Search, Raises $6M

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Previously, he was a staff technology writer at Adweek, worked as a senior editor at the tech blog VentureBeat, and was also a reporter at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. Launch Date: February 20, 2011. San Francisco, California.

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