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HOW TO: Connect with Other Entrepreneurs Online

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Anyone in the community can edit posts and frequent users are allowed to vote irrelevant questions off the site. Topics are divided into IT, marketing, sales, finance, customer service, operations and human resources sections, which makes it easy to search for the latest discussions on your interest area. STOKED!!!!

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The Energy Revolution is (Finally) Here

Version One Ventures

The ability to have a third party finance a solar project and guarantee a fixed energy cost or amount of savings was a major development that helped bring about current market conditions. One thing I really love about Camus is that it’s built on open source standards. Here are some of the areas that I’m excited about: .

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

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Or even contribute to an open source project. The development community is a friendly one (for the most part) and you’ll often find many people eager to help you out. This works if your passion and business idea is not just by pure profits or trends, but by serving the community and the world in a greater way.

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6 Ways to Recruit Talent for Startups

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Pros: There’s no registration required, and the site maintains a sizable community of experienced coders who are up for side projects. Coders can create anonymous profiles and accept solicitations to work on projects or join a team. Entrepreneurs can browse coders by skill or location.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. You can certainly add me to the list and I can connect founders/startups to the CTO community through the LA CTO Forum that I help organize. Reply Was muss ein CTO tun?

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! The Exit Problem.

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4 Considerations for Expanding Your Startup to International Markets

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and China, and recently recorded their 1,000,000th download of Bonita Open Solution. If you’re working with an open source project, for example, it’s important that you have a definitive business model to drive revenue — though not at the cost of alienating your community of core contributors.

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