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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

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This directory was created by New York-based digital agency Kettle , “because it’s easier for Indiana Jones to recover the Sankara Stones than for someone with an idea for an app to find a decent app developer,&# according to the site’s creators. You also need to be sure you’re offering fair benefits and salary.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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"When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart.