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Entrepreneurs: The Funding Landscape Has Changed.

Berkonomics

The great majority of investors who did invest in “idea stage” businesses, lost fortunes when the Internet “bubble” burst at the beginning of the last decade. Independent Third Parties: This area for securing business loans has witnessed the greatest degree of change, primarily due to removal of communication barriers using the Internet.

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Workstreamer Launches Public Beta

Austin Startup

Everyone is so focused on search that they’re going to miss the bigger opportunity, which I think is making meaning out of the massive amount of information on the internet, not just searching it. But the financial markets have definitely raised the bar. Take a second to think about how much information is produced in a day.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

The market price is less than the inconvenience of signing an NDA. Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. The best odds are in niche markets. This doesnt work well.

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