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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #17: On failure and resilience

Austin Startup

Who says Austin can’t do B2C now ? Cotter bucks the flavor-of-the-day entrepreneurial stereotype: the college dropout popularized by both our own Michael Dell and recently Mark Zuckerberg and the great movie The Social Network. billion, or $100 billion more than Exxon Mobil, making it the most valuable company in the world.

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The Ultimate Guide to Choosing a Pricing Strategy for Your SaaS Startup

Up and Running

Just think of the resources that attaining 1 billion users might require—the time and effort of your team to support all these users, the cloud space to keep their data. This type of freemium is quite popular with computer games as well as mobile apps we come across daily. It’s mostly popular with B2C markets. Youtube ads. $1

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Four Building Blocks for the New “Second Industrial Revolution”

Rob Go

There is a dark cloud over the internet sector due to the weak performance of the Facebook IPO. 5 Years ago, the mobile web meant email on the blackberry or really lame on-deck applications on feature phones. This creates implied social graphs, driven by actual behavior outside of social networks, based on data from emails, sms, etc.

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The one barrier to entry startups should focus on

Version One Ventures

In today’s B2B and B2C web markets, barrier to entry boils down to one thing: demand-side benefits of scale. Lower capital requirements: The cloud lowers the upfront R&D costs for a software start-up. Second, in some industries, users want to be in a large network with other buyers and users. Barriers to entry!

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Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

VC Cafe

The Mobile World Congress , possibly the largest International technology conference and definitely the most important mobile conference of the year is taking place in Barcelona this February 14-17. Mobile Apps and App stores – a new ecosystem was created and it’s here to stay (Check out LogiaGroup, Waze and Cellint).

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Poplytics – online surveys and analytics AskYourTargetMarket – market research surveys SurveyMonkey - granddaddy of on-line surveys Amazon Mechanical Turk – you can set up a question and get answers PickFu – A/B testing $5 for 50 opinions Collaboration Dropbox – store, sync, and, share files online. Simple editing.