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Things To Expect As A Woman Founder When Starting A Tech-Based Company

YoungUpstarts

Over the years, the rapid growth of startup networks is seen in almost every sector. I pitched to 86 investors before getting the green signal from only 5 of them. It is necessary to involve the rest of the family members and distribute this workload amongst them, at the end of the day, even superwoman can use some help.

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Create a New Business Bubble, Don’t Chase Old Ones

Startup Professionals Musings

In startup business plans, a bubble is too many entrepreneurs and too many investors chasing the latest “next big thing,” like Google search engine, Facebook social network, or Amazon e-commerce site. Government actions sometimes meddle with normal supply and demand equilibriums, or money allocations. Policy-driven distortions.

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Avoid Startup Opportunity Bubbles Ready To Burst

Startup Professionals Musings

In startup business plans, a bubble is too many entrepreneurs and too many investors chasing the latest “next big thing,” like Google search engine, Facebook social network, or Amazon e-commerce site. Government actions sometimes meddle with normal supply and demand equilibriums, or money allocations. Policy-driven distortions.

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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

Open Government. Companies like Publicstuff and Votizen that help us connect with our elected officials and local governments are going to get a lot of dollars and attention this year. There are a lot of things I love about my Android phone--like the easy integration into the rest of my Google life. Reader beware.). Calendaring.

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Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet

Startup Lessons Learned

We met a number of policy makers from the White House and State Department, and had a solid Startup2Startup all about government policy and entrepreneurship. In a previous post , I asked readers for suggested topics that the US government needs to know about startups and entrepreneurs, and got some really interesting responses.

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How to Start a Movement

Ben's Blog

A few months ago, my friend Joe Green sent me a video titled, “ The Internet is My Religion ”: In it, Jim Gilliam gives us a short tour of his life’s story. Organizing people to save his own life profoundly impacted Jim’s view of how he should spend the rest of it. Because there’s always a meaning in a Heavy D statement.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

O’Reilly’s article describes two businesses from his own career at O’Reilly—the Global Network Navigator (GNN) web portal, which he sold to AOL, and the Website web server, which eventually fell by the wayside. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age.