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Build, Buy Or Build To Buy

YoungUpstarts

Firm executives often find themselves in a position similar to families that undertake a major house remodel: it cost more and took much longer than expected, while several unforeseen obstacles changed the project scope. The ability to subscribe to a service rather than make an “all in” commitment to a platform.

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Entrepreneur That Grew Up In A Household of Educators Creates Solution to Education Challenges

Hearpreneur

Similar to entrepreneurship, the best way to learn to be a web developer is to actively work on projects. I’ve seen higher education costs spiral out of control. Right now, we’re focused on teaching two verticals: Web Development and User Experience/User Interface (UX/UI) design. What is your favorite business quotation?

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How to Raise Investment Capital - According to VC Jeff Clavier

ReadWriteStart

Money man and pundit Paul Kedrosky also spoke at the International Startup Festival and offered humorous, blunt advice about how to get what you want from investors and investment bankers. Kedrosky: "In the 90's I was an analyst through all this [tech investment and IPO] madness. Make sure you do a lot of cohort analysis.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

The entire country of Uruguay is connected to the web. Web access is seen by the government as an ‘economic development investment’, not a political football. And while we feel a bit uncomfortable, we still engage because the cost of non participation is currently higher than the price of privacy.

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Swipe debit card, get stock; In defense of the IPO; New models for SMB lending, and more

Ben's Blog

Whether it’s Yotta encouraging emergency savings accounts, Dave.com providing overdraft protection, or Stash enabling broad participation in public market investing, I believe that the private sector could be an inflection point for the country’s financial health – and that fintechs will lead the way.

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Reclaiming The American Dream

YoungUpstarts

They see hedge-funders and investment bankers as having hijacked the American Dream from the middle class. workplace has become an investor-driven market, a place where workers are treated as disposable cogs who are costs to be minimized rather than capabilities to be maximized on-the-job. They feel lost.

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

Both Sides of the Table

And Ron Conway has proclaimed that he wants to do up to 40-50 rapid-fire deals in the next 18 months in what is becoming known as the “real time web” (e.g. IPOs and M&A have returned – and with them the investment bankers have staged a rebound. Twitter, FriendFeed and other real-time “feeds”.).

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