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8 Steps To Starting A New Venture With Limited Funds

Startup Professionals Musings

In the early Internet days, it would cost a million dollars to get this far. Even the homework is easier, with free and mobile access through the Internet to more business assistance sources, opportunity data, investors, and competitor details around the world. Participate in networking platforms and events for support.

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

Both Sides of the Table

The industry finally has one of their own at the helm of the largest YouTube network. The future of the Internet is video. My estimate is that the top 5 YouTube networks will do > $200 million net revenue in 2013 (after Google’s share). Another major hire was Ryan Lissack who joined as CTO.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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14 Interesting Findings From The Startup Genome Project

YoungUpstarts

This week Blackbox , founded by entrepreneurs Bjoern Lasse Herrmann and Max Marmer, released its first Startup Genome Report — a 67-page in depth analysis on what makes Silicon Valley startups successful based on profiling over 650 startups. Technical-heavy founding teams are 3.3x Business-heavy founding teams are 6.2x

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Innovation and Geography

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? eHarmongy) as an acting CTO. Probably the biggest drawback of Los Angeles is the distance and traffic that makes networking more difficult.

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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

He was part of the Sandbox network - a group of incredibly smart under 30 year olds.). But he left to work on what he told me he came to do - crack the innovation code of Silicon Valley and share it with the rest of the world. They went to work gathering deep knowledege of what makes successful Internet startups.

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Learn from People, Not Classes

Reid Hoffman

Over the past two decades the internet has reshaped our daily lives and the world of business—so it’s not surprising that it’s transforming how companies develop talent. The leaders and disrupters we meet in Silicon Valley and around the world are distinguished by the speed at which they zip up the learning curve.

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