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Exclusive: Announcing a Startup that Brings More Efficient Government to the US and Other Countries

David Teten

state, currently rated one of the most corrupt states in the US by the Center for Public Integrity. Governance is clearly not a core competency of the US; it’s time we outsourced governance to those who do it better than we do. Based on these discussions, I began thinking about ways the US could run its government more effectively.

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Reading what was written and the VC age question

This is going to be BIG.

I also (as Fred describes us youngins) "work hard, put in ridiculous hours, are on top of all the latest trends, companies, technologies, etc. If you make a comment about age, it will always be taken in the context of how old you are versus how old your audience is. Try to think about why the person said what they said.

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How We Fooled Ourselves into Delaying Our Startup’s Launch

viniciusvacanti.com

This is a really smart way of thinking about startups. It would have taken us just a week to have launched an early prototype. We could have manually created the emails with deals we found and used MailChimp to send them out. It was going to take us a few months to build the tech back-end. I was believer.

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Winners and Losers in the Coming Crowdfunding World

Growthink Blog

While the crowdfunding portion of the bill still needs to go through SEC rule-making, the die is clearly cast that a whole new social networking – based world of start-up and small business investing and financing is coming fast upon us. Not as fast as any of us hope, but coming inevitably nevertheless.

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Perfect Pricing Part Deux — More money from fewer sales

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Sacha just wrote about his pricing strategy last week on this blog, and shared that he earned $6,663 for 1,476 sales in 48 hours. Sacha wrote a book and priced it relative to the cost of other books, which is the strategy just about everyone follows. If you begin a business by thinking about price, you have already lost.

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Of Ideas And Pitching: Four Thoughts For Founders Facing A Judging Panel

YoungUpstarts

What interesting about that experience was not seeing how startup founders reacted when under pressure. Instead what I’d like to offer here is some insight into what can go on in the minds of judges sitting in such business competition panels, so founders know that us judges have our own unique challenges.

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A Great American Experience

OnlyOnce

Below are three pictures, one of the signing, one of the three of us, and one of me and Scott Dorsey, our friend and CEO of Exact Target , who we ran into there. It was a great experience for the three of us overall. And we should all be excited about that! We ARE part of the global growth story.

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