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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. They compete on features, price and execution. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

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Silicon Beach emerges as a tech hotbed

www.usatoday.com

Because he cant compete with Google on salary, Citron says, he offers job candidates more responsibility — letting prospective engineers know theyll get to work on bigger projects. There are job opportunities at start-ups for non-engineers as well. That said a lot." These firms invest in start-ups and help guide them to success.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

social network/web analysis/etc. Our value is built on the non-technical stuff, which relies on a network of people and resources that have taken years to develop. Sometimes youll incubate a bit longer, sometimes shorter. Ran if for two years before we shut it down with almost no revenue achieved. Shocking, I know.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

Non of this academic stuff. Entrepreneurs always struggle with competing priorities and manage expenses very closely. Eventually it will be a large social networking site if all goes well but I dont want users to begin to use it, and then we have an issue with maintaining content, handling traffic etc and then they lose interest.

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Finding Your Co-Founders

techcrunch.com

Just make sure to not violate any non-competes, etc, in the process! Where would we be without the innovators who thought up a “search engine&# or a “social network&# Execution is labor and without it nothing gets done but ideas are change, fantastic ideas challenge who we are and allow us to become something new.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Social networking. Social/Sharing. Create your own social network. free enterprise social network. questions and answers for non-programmers. Incubator List/ Local Startup Resources/ Startup Q&A. List of Startup Incubators. Israeli Center of Incubators. Social Commerce.