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Twitter Link Roundup #176 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

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Q1 Venture Capital Spending & Number Of Deals Down, M&A Activity Drops 44 Percent And Pre-Money Valuations Plummet – [link]. “sometimes you have the right product but the wrong business model.” 10 Things Entrepreneurs Can Learn From High School Seniors – [link].

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How to Start a Startup

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Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. Ididnt realize that when we were raising money. Theyre not something you couldhand to someone else to execute. Thereis no rational way.

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