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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

A Taiwan outfit created a c lanaguage interface to EEMS which worked, but I had to speed it up by a factor of 4 by rewriting what they did. 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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Bitesize Friday: NowForce, Cotendo, United Parents, Zerto and Entrepreneur Resources

VC Cafe

VentureTech Alliance, and Taiwan’s CIDC. Kickstarter – the crowd-funding platform has become a popular source of early stage funding… and publicity. Sprouter – a social network, Q&A site and content portal for entrepreneurs. This deal is estimated at a few millions only.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

This time around, there has been an explosion at the early stages, and the very late pre-IPO growth stages. “The real winners here are going to be the seed funds and early stage VCs that can write a $1 million to $2 million check,” says AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant. Now it’s glutted.