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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Top 10 Tech Trends To Watch

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The trends include Cloud computing, outsourcing, social Web, vertical and local Web, smartphones and tablets, online advertising, online video, online gaming, e-books, and bootstrapped entrepreneurship. The company is profitable and has so far raised only $400,000 in friends and family and angel financing.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Crowd Sourced Funding Exchanges - An Emerging Trend

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Earlier, of course, we covered AngelList at length , also a crowd sourcing venture in the angel financing space, and this week, we have covered SecondMarket , which is powering Facebook's private market capital raising. When two out of four pitches in a session are from the same category, it most certainly makes me take notice.

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Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt?

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” Ressi also says that the percentage of companies with convertible debt that successfully raise Series A funding is shrinking, due to an explosion in new angel financings and just moderate growth in venture funding. Crunch Daily. Top News Delivered To You. 2011 Holiday. Gift Guide. Your guide for the best gadget gifts of 2011.

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