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Put A Coin In It! Invest In Early Stage Startups To See Maximum ROI

YoungUpstarts

by Emmanuel de Watteville, co-founder of Blue Ocean Ventures. It’s simple; know how to spot potential and use your area of expertise to identify whether or not this startup’s product or service will become a lucrative asset to its audience. It’s essential to dissect marketing and monetization strategies together.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

The Next Web

is the CEO and co-founder at ShoutEm , a self service mobile website and mobile apps creator, a ‘Wordpress for mobile apps.’. In 2003, another CMS, called WordPress, came into play, and with its plugin architecture, WordPress quickly won the hearts of the development community. Viktor Marohni? So what we can learn?

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Five Questions with Mark Gerson

VC Cafe

I first met Mark in Israel in 2003, when he offered me a job at GLG straight out of college. This week, Mark launched his new book, The Telling , and I thought it’s worth sharing with a broader audience. Mark Gerson: They should join a religious community — and start participating.

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Ted Rheingold Founded Dogster in 2004: Five Questions About Building a Startup, Selling a Startup and Whether SF Is Still a Good Place

Hunter Walker

Hunter Walk: I know you started Dogster, one of the seminal early online communities, but I don’t know Dogster’s founding story. Ted Rheingold: In 2003 I owned and ran a web service business called OneMatchFire , and made a number of image sharing products for customers (or as side projects). How did the site come about?

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Must-Have Tips To Help Small Businesses Utilize Social Media

YoungUpstarts

by Jerry Nettuno, founder/CEO/ chairman of Schedulicity. Having a solid online presence will allow professionals to: Gain access to an audience that will read and comment on your social media content. Listen to what’s happening professionally in communities. Engage your audience; make it sticky.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

However, the Mac community was also very vocal, with passionate fans of their platform, and is also important to note that this community had very little love for Microsoft. They had a couple experienced co-founders, including the now legendary Reed Hastings, but the problem was that they were stuck at about 300,000 customers.

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