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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

Through them, entrepreneurs can hook up with R&D resources in universities and companies, and get access to a robust support network that provides opportunities for visibility, growth and financing. Incubators, Accelerators, Competitions. so it shouldn't be long till they hop across the Channel. We have those too.

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How to Get World Class Experts to Support Your Company

David Teten

As the former CEO of a professional expert network , I’m a firm believer in the value of speedy access to relevant experts. I was excited to see that GLG (formerly Gerson Lehrman Group), the industry leader, is now offering a professional network service geared to the needs of the startup community: GLG Share.

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Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Check Out Stanzr

ReadWriteStart

The 1M/1M Channel on Stanzr. The first of these discussions was about a new social media marketing platform called Stanzr, from San Francisco-based Voluble, that we are using at 1M/1M. Dr. Said is a dentist himself and argued a good case for a network of dentists with special offers for uninsured consumers.

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Back to The Future: Power of SMS-Native

View from Seed

Instead they limit what channels they actually pay attention to. On the commercial side, increasingly ecommerce retailers have started to use SMS as a two-way communications channel with their customers. A SMS interaction which is deeply emotional, and feels personal, because of the intimacy of the channel. They don’t.

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A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

Startups, are not about executing a plan where the product, customers, channel are known. We made clear that this class wasn’t an incubator. JointBuy allows buyers to start a new deal on any available product and share the idea with others through existing social networking sites.

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Why Your Startup's Name Matters

mashable.com

He currently runs marketing at tech incubator QLabs and previously co-founded travel site Wanderfly. ” The name is important for discoverability , whether in Google searches (10% to 50%+ of site traffic, depending on the category), the App Store (especially painful in iOS6) and other text-based discovery channels. Contributors.

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Microsoft’s Bing Fund will give online startups cash, advice, and discounts

venturebeat.com

The Bing Fund, Microsoft’s newest incubator, to be headed by VoodooPC founder Rahul Sood. Social media. Social networking. Social games. After playing coy and dropping hints for weeks, Microsoft has finally announced its newest incubator, the Bing Fund. 3 days ago. 4 days ago. From $1.5B Cloud storage.

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