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16 Great Startup Posts from March

SoCal CTO

9 Reasons Why Many Smart People Go Nowhere - Life Beyond Code , March 29, 2010 You would have met many smart people who live a mediocre life. It’s the old – 5% of massive market gives us a big number. I do sometimes get impatient when the investment proposal has little or no information on the exit path. There are MANY of them.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. 2) Market . Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors.

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How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea

www.virtuosimedia.com

Many partnerships don’t make it past this stage, devolving into a tangled mess about who owns the idea and the code and what the compensation should be. Startup internet projects often arrive slightly buggy at first and if the entrepreneur didn’t take the time to research the market in advance, the product can be dead on arrival.

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Building a sweat equity team

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(Not logged on) | Register | Log On Home Discuss Jobs About The Business of Software A community discussing the business of software, from the smallest shareware operation to Microsoft. A part of Joel on Software. In particular, I want to bring on a full-time marketing person, and a full-time developer.

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What is the perfect startup team?

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Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team? They are many more examples.

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Why “Luck” is a Terrible Marketing Plan for Your Startup.

Software By Rob

I’ve heard for years about the importance of finding a market before building a software product. I would think, “How can you find a market for something before you build it?&# You can sell garbage to a hungry market and make money. “That’s ridiculous!&# Oh, so very true. You just need to be lucky.