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How to Build a Startup Team

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Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006. Personal Network: Ask your friends and colleagues for suggestions. Send them a note about what you are looking for and ask them to pass it around to their network.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

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In 2006, Kapor founded Foxmarks, a popular Firefox Firefox add-on later renamed Xmarks Xmarks. Roberts talks of social networks as mediums that may very well help your product or name attract VC attention. Kapor is the original designer of Lotus 1-2-3 and former CEO of Lotus Development.

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An Extensive Guide To Web Form Usability

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For instance, with a social network, a user would fill out a registration form to inform the organization that they would like to join. One minor suggestion: you quote Matteo Penzo’s 2006 article on label placement, which implies that forms are completed faster if the labels are on top of the fields.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. I was at a startup AND I developed an evented I/O server with pluggable protocol handlers AND it was capable of handling the c10k problem AND I did this back in 2006 with C# on.NET 2.0

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