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How To Win Startup Competitions

VC Cafe

Building a good reputation is one of the most fundamental components to a successful start-up and is particularly invaluable in the early stages. The start-up scene within Europe and particular in the UK is growing fast and brings with it many competitions. Photo credit: Images_of_Money, Flickr. Guest post by Nitzan Yudan*.

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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. LeWeb , Europe's largest (and the world's second largest) Internet conference is held in Paris every December.

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The One-Week Social Selling Action Plan

Duct Tape Marketing

While big ticket products might carry longer and more complex sales cycles, high-end buyers are just as lazy as the rest of us, so they use the same methods: Google, social media, and yes, their inboxes. Best lead generation talent : The Philippines and Eastern Europe. The strategy in a nutshell. It’s ok to start small.

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

We are the most active Twitter country in the world (measured by tweets per account) and the third most socially networked. But if we’re honest, Amsterdam is currently outdone by several places in Europe. We don’t have a ‘Paypal’ mafia, a Netscape brethren or an equivalent strong network in tech. Serious talent.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

But if youre in the US for example, then your development cost will be anything from 5-10 times higher than offshoring to India or Eastern Europe. Sun Microsystems has a program called Startup Essentials [link] thats designed specifically to help early stage startups get into some great equipment, free software and other great stuff too.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

Rethinking “F@#$ You Money” - Tony Wright dot com , August 2, 2010 Now that I’ve stepped down from RescueTime, I’m pondering my next thing (whether it’s a product role at a very early stage startup or spinning up my own for the 3rd time). Social gaming was naturally one of the key topics, covered in many presentations.

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4 Considerations for Expanding Your Startup to International Markets

mashable.com

For example, angel funding is more prevalent in the United States than in Europe. In other words, angel investors and early stage venture capital (VC) firms will have different expectations than late stage VC firms. Also make sure to research which type of investors fit your business.

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