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Matt Mickiewicz, Founder Of Sitepoint, Flippa & 99Designs, Tells His Story

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Matt is the co-founder of one of the very first online forums I spent some time on, SitePoint.com , which today is a massive web community and information site. Sitepoint became a near-daily visit for me when I was focusing on buying and selling websites. Download the MP3 [ 30 Minutes - 40 MB ].

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Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups

techcrunch.com

Founders Den co-founder and angel investor Zachary Bogue has joined forces with seasoned big data VC Matt Ocko , Metamarkets founder Michael Driscoll and Prismatic CEO Bradford Cross to launch Data Collective , the world’s first Big Data-only early stage investment fund. . San Francisco, CA. Disrupt SF 2012.

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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

Founder Kevin Systrom launched Instagram with 25,000 beta users on October 6, 2010; two years later, the app continues to see massive growth, recently reporting 150 million active users. Ben Schippers is the co-founder of HappyFunCorp , a Web development company that has built sites for TeePublic , Of A Kind , Postography and Yeah TV! “If

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Free Startup Docs: How Much Equity Should Advisors Get?

techcrunch.com

This is where a lot of founders get stuck. Not to mention, once the founder and advisor have nominally agreed to a relationship, law firms enter the mix and seed the new advisor with a mountain of paperwork — legal agreements, options agreements — documents stuffed with legalese and binding statements.

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Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt?

techcrunch.com

Today, TheFunded.com and the Founder Institute is announcing in conjunction with law firm Wilson Sonsini, Convertible Equity, a startup-friendly seed-financing vehicle intended to replace Convertible Debt notes. FOUNDER INSTITUTE. Website: thefunded.com. Company: Founder Institute. Website: fi.co. Crunchbase.

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

We run a web development company and we start by creating a splash page very similar to what is describe here. If we don't get a certain amount of signups on that splash page, we don't develop the rest of the site becuase they will not have any customer. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. What a great post.

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24 Entrepreneur Explain How They Come Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

I was visiting a coworking space in San Francisco and chatting with a few of his coworkers about some of the ideas I was thinking of pursuing. In our line of work as web developers, it should be no surprise that the vast majority of us are video game nerds. Thanks to Gerrid Smith, Joy Organics ! #12-

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