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8 Myths Technologists Believe That Sink Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

That’s why I recommend that they find a co-founder who loves business challenges, including marketing and finance. I usually envision a 50-50 ownership split for their efforts, but every engineer believes the technology side deserves the majority share. Fabulous solutions require great technology.

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The investment that didn’t happen

K9 Ventures

As a two person team Arlo and AJ built out the whole site and the back-end technology — and built it to scale — at one point they did a A/B test on Zappos and were easily able to handle all the traffic coming to the Zappos test site while being able to show results from the enormous Zappos inventory.

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Why you should pay attention to these 8 emerging tech hubs

The Next Web

Today, with the decentralising nature of the Internet, distributed cloud technology and a growing sentiment toward entrepreneurship, the global startup ecosystem has never been so dispersed. Perhaps it’s a complex algorithm of all of the above? What’s the magic formula that helps a city to incubate innovation? Pune, India?.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

His quote on the subject, "no amount of finance will cure mismanagement". If it is obvious and easy to do (A), then I would conclude that there was no technological advantage, no technological barrier to entry, and would would have to look for a special reason to try. We have a start-up in the works.

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28 Entrepreneurs Discuss Why they Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Prior to crowdSPRING, I was producer and production manager in the film and television industry and Ross was an attorney in private practice specializing in intellectual property. However, after 18 months of doing that it all came crashing down one day when Google changed their algorithm. 10 – Get Back Up and Move Forward.

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5 Things Startups Can Learn from Angel Investors

Up and Running

I have to admit, I’ve seen some judges of graduate-level business plan competitions care about IRR, but never an actual angel investor during actual due diligence. And it gets worse—a lot of angels, in a lot of tech business markets, prefer high growth and deficit spending to profits. You’re out of school now.