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6 Tips for Coming Up With Your Million-Dollar Business Idea

Up and Running

In the early 1990s, my brother was working for a company that was going through the roof selling shareware software via catalog. David sold his recording equipment for $50,000 and they borrowed the rest of their seed money from a bank. I stole the ideas for my first startups from other people. We thought, “Hey, we can do that!”

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The Legal Side of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

This past summer, the Lightspeed Summer Fellowships program invited selected guests to provide aspiring entrepreneurs a perspective into all aspects of starting a new company. The program provides entrepreneurs the resources and mentoring they need to build their companies and develop their skills.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

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. Hackersshould do this even if they dont plan to start startups, because its the only real way to learn how to program. Thats nonsense.

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Want $50k in Seed Funding? Apply now.

ReadWriteStart

A new program that began earlier this year is looking for five IT-centric entrepreneurs to receive seed funds along with a series of services. Louis, the program is run by two venture capitalists - Judy Sindecuse and Hal Gentry - who have formed a new entity called Capital Innovators. Louis and the St.

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Mile-High disruption: Why Denver should be on your tech radar next year

The Next Web

metropolitan area, including SendGrid , Ping Identity , Rally Software (which went public on NASDAQ this year; RALY ), Sympoz , Datalogix , Newsgator , TrackVia , Convercent , Printfection , rentbits , and hundreds more. Denver has more tech startups per capita than any U.S. A quality of life that beats Silicon Valley’s.

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Where to Get Feedback on Your Business Pitch

Up and Running

Drawing on advice from our own Tim Berry, founder of Palo Alto Software and Josh Cochrane, our VP of Product Development, I’ve broken down a few of the different options for entrepreneurs looking for feedback on their pitch. They ended up with a nice pitch, and approximately $300K in seed money.”. Not currently a student?

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

Share this: net c# development django java language php software Were often asked by entrepreneurs which language their startups should adopt when developing their technology. It can be difficult -- without experience building software -- to make an informed choice which is most suitable. PHP is insecure? Ruby on Rails doesnt scale?