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10 Startup Red Flags

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Adam MacBeth Tuesday, April 07, 2009 10 Startup Red Flags Ive worked on a number of startups: from seed-stage through IPO, as a founder, employee, advisor, and consultant, as well as evaluating a bunch from the outside, so Ive seen my share of screw-ups. Ever met a CTO/VP Engineering or CEO/CTO? Adamac Attack! Yeah me neither.

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What is Sweat Equity Worth?

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Follow Entrepreneur on Facebook Follow Entrepreneur on Twitter Follow Entrepreneur on LinkedIn Subscribe | Mobile. Money Money Home Financing Taxes Accounting Basics Personal Finance Money Management Payments & Collections IPOs and DPOs Will Crazy Market Moves Kill IPOs and Slash VC Investment? Business & Small Business.

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Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S

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Mobile News. Despite the industry’s lackluster returns in recent years, there’s still lots of interest in funds that have good track records or are well-situated to take advantage of broad consumer technology trends,” said Zoran Basich, editor of Dow Jones VentureWire. Snow Creek Technology Law PS. Posts Comments Startups.

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Lessons Learned: Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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Pick a similar product that they do use, and ask them "who was the first person you know who started using [social networking, mobile phones, plasma TV, instant messaging.]? Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

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Some examples: AI will be the new mobile. Artificial Intelligence is an important, foundational technology that gets more important every year and will be used to solve more and more problems going forward. One of the interesting applications for this technology is assessing intellect in job interviews. What tasks are next?

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Twitter Link Roundup #110 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

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Zynga Leans On Some Workers to Surrender Pre-IPO Shares – [link]. Report: Search To Dominate Mobile Advertising By 2015 – [link]. Are We At An Inflection Point For Mobile Search? Graphic Design Basics Part 2: Design Principles – [link]. Pandora CTO Reveals Half of The U.S. Very shady, if true.

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How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone

Startup Lessons Learned

So there is an opportunity to build new brands with attributes like "the most amazing mobile apps" but I think building a company around that strategy means really thinking through how to do it. No other mobile platform or carrier deck under the sun can offer the amount of user attention and time that the App Store does.