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Twitter Link Roundup #117 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

ExcelerateLabs ranked in the top Startup Incubators by Forbes – [link]. Why Startups Shouldn’t Hire PR Firms – [link]. Facing Another PR Disaster: Google Accused Of Fraudulently Undermining A Kenyan Startup – [link]. Obama Administration Comes Out Against SOPA And Protect IP – [link].

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10 Tips for Making your Startup More Attractive for Investors [Presentation]

VC Cafe

Launch48 is a new kind of micro-incubator taking place over the course of a weekend, which enables entrepreneurs to pitch their concept in one minute, in order to find team mates who are interested in pursuing the idea. It’s nice to have protected IP, but that will mostly matter later on in the event of an acquisition.

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StartupRoar - Great Content for Startups

SoCal CTO

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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The Importance of Partnership Agreements, NDAs, and Security: Lessons from HBO’s “Silicon Valley”

Up and Running

Even from the outset, Pied Piper had problems related to IP, with the founder having to beg a local irrigation company for the rights to the company name. Given that Pied Piper is both a startup and a tech company, the frequency with which IP comes up isn’t surprising—over 90 percent of a startup’s value is in its intangible assets.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. Not to mention every major agency, many PR firms, etc. I see this emerging in Seattle and the passion of “a few key individuals&# who can help shift the game. Elder Statesmen.

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betaworks, vc

aweissman.com

Someone said to me last week that we are a reverse incubator. Instead of providing a common office space, HR, marketing, PR functions, we provide a common development team and common values for product development excellence. Six months later we have four things that we have built and we have fourteen seed investments.