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Splunk Founder Now Launches Entrepreneurs, Not Startups

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Today Baum heads up a non-profit called Founder.org , where he’s applying the lessons he learned from his own startups to help student entrepreneurs launch their companies. In Paris today at the World Founder Forum he announced the top 10 student team winners who split $1 million in seed money prizes. Were you insane?

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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bfliris So it sounds like with Meebo (your claim to fame) you were passionate about the idea but had no programming skill, partnered with two people that had strong programming ability and did very little to assist them in creating a succesful application. Living expense money 2. Your credibility is … already dead.