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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

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He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. Although both parents are educators, his father a professor and his mother the Commissioner of Education in Connecticut, they did not teach him business. What is your mobile strategy? For Meebo 1.3%

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Incubators Are Reaching Out To 1M/1M

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Next, Douglas Villalobos from Costa Rica pitched GeoInvenio, a mobile application development platform. In addition, I asked him to do a competitive analysis on the pricing models of the various mobile app platforms and come back to me with both sets of market data, namely, customer research and competitive analysis. GeoInvenio.

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

As basic mobile phones became ubiquitous around 2006, we set out to create a service to empower organizations to connect with their members through text messaging. So now here in CT people will search for we buy houses in connecticut. Thanks to Justin Baum, ZZZ Bears ! #2- 2- Put a twist to a common word. Photo Credit: Dan Kamins.

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The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Steve Blank

I explained that the goal of the Innovation Corps was to bridge what the NSF calls the “ditch of death” – the gap between when NSF research funding runs out and when a team is credible enough (with enough customer and market knowledge) to raise private capital or license/partner with existing companies.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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The company raised $45 million in venture capital from firms including DCM, Emergence Capital Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners, and built partnerships with AOL Inc., David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners has stuck with Mr. Dreymann. Connecticut. Connecticut. the previous year. Comcast Corp., Agriculture.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I have been working with my Partners since November 2000. Nobody was leveraging digital, e-commerce or mobile. So as a result, out of the basement of my house with NO money and only a hand-me-down laptop, cell phone, and borrowed internet connection from my neighbor, my business partner and I created Quality Logo Products.