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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Unexpected Startup Lesson #1: Quitting the day job - Currently Obsessed , May 10, 2010 This post is the first of a series on “unexpected lessons&# learned through my experience as co-founder and CEO of Snapvine , a venture-backed mobile social networking service founded in 2005 and acquired by WhitePages in June of 2008.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

billion in 2008 and $8.8 billion, 7 percent below 2008 levels ($2.74 The average deal size in 2009 was $40 million, an increase of 21 percent from $33 million in 2008. In 2008, Teva acquired American company Barr Pharmaceuticals, a maker of generic birth control pills, for about $7.5 billion in 2009, compared with $10.8

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The Stairstep Approach to Bootstrapping

Software By Rob

The strategy that seems to give people the best chance of success is creating a simple product, with a simple marketing plan – that means a one-time sale product, with a single traffic channel. Specifically, I’m suggesting that you don’t get started with a subscription SAAS model. Getting those initial early sales is a big win.

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6 Important Startup Trends that Defined 2011

mashable.com

And just as Groupon unleashed a frenzy of daily deal sites after its launch in 2008, Birchbox helped make 2011 a year filled with new subscription services for just about everything. Subscribe to the Business channel. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. 4 followers.

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The Stair Step Method of Bootstrapping

Software By Rob

The strategy that seems to give people the best chance of success is creating a simple product, with a simple marketing plan – one that only requires a single traffic channel. As for a single traffic source , focus on figuring out one way of generating customers, instead of trying to master all the different traffic channels at once.

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Inspiring Entrepreneurs: Ted Livingston’s rollercoaster ride as CEO of hit messaging startup Kik

The Next Web

I went to university in Waterloo in 2005 for engineering. He duly took it and vowed to start a company when his finished his third and final placement with RIM in December 2008. Livingston and his team spent a few months “begging” RIM to open its popular messaging service to other channels, but the company had no interest.

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The Stairstep Approach to Bootstrapping

Software By Rob

The strategy that seems to give people the best chance of success is creating a simple product, with a simple marketing plan – that means a one-time sale product, with a single traffic channel. Specifically, I’m suggesting that you don’t get started with a subscription SAAS model. Getting those initial early sales is a big win.