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Ready, Set, Drive!: 8 Signs That Now Is the Time to Launch Your Trucking Business

The Startup Magazine

You Have Access to Seed Money. You’ll have to buy your own truck, purchase your own commercial insurance and may need money to tide you over as you seek your first clients. Does the prospect of your company popping up in search engine results when shippers are choosing a trucking service excite you?

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Entrepreneurs: The Funding Landscape Has Changed.

Berkonomics

When searching for funding, one of your primary tasks should be to start where it is easier, and proceed from there. There are a host of companies that can be accessed through web-search engines that can provide both secured and unsecured financing. Email readers, continue here.]

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Let's All Shed Tears For The Crappy Startups That Can't Raise Any More Money

readwrite.com

You dont need to know electrical engineering or computer science. Meanwhile our country is facing a crisis because we have a shortage of students in STEM -- science, technology, engineering and math. Maybe theyll go back to university and study medicine, or engineering. Enterprise. Share… on Facebook. on Twitter.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

Googles plan, for example, was simply to create a search site thatdidnt suck. They had three new ideas: index more of the Web, uselinks to rank search results, and have clean, simple web pages withunintrusive keyword-based ads. For example, dating sites currently suck far worse than search didbefore Google.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

The best composition is probably one engineer whose passion lies in the pixels on the screen and another engineer whose passion is making bits fly really fast through servers. is it really that the only people who can build great startups are engineers? Engineers don’t always have the best business ideas.

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The Future of Web Startups

www.paulgraham.com

Larry and Sergey only started Google after making the rounds of the search engines trying to sell their idea and finding no takers. The way to get really big returns is to do things that seem crazy, like starting a new search engine in 1998, or turning down a billion dollar acquisition offer.

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

Such is its impressiveness, however, that Google released Django as the first supported language on their App Engine cloud computing platform, and a number of Rails developers are starting to transition over. You can find this out (crudely) from job sites (search on Developer Java, for example).