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HOW TO: Sign Up Users Even Before You Launch Your Startup

mashable.com

Philadelphia-based startup LaunchRock thinks a company’s “coming soon” page should be more than a placeholder; it should be a place for users to sign up and provide a way to share a new startup with friends. Here are four tricks startups have used to make it happen. Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited. All Rights Reserved.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

Some angel investors join together in syndicates. At one extreme is the sort of pork-barrel project wherea town gets money from the state government to renovate a vacantbuilding as a "high-tech incubator," as if it were merely lack ofthe right sort of office space that had till now prevented the townfrom becoming a startup hub.