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Dallas Startup Happy Hour Tomorrow

The Startup Lawyer

Blake is the founder of CoHabitat, a startup community and hacker co-working space that’s become a hub for startup entrepreneurs, developers, and creatives. Dynamo Labs was the first recipient of fbFund, a grant fund operated by the Founders Fund, Accel Partners, and Facebook. Gabriella Draney, Tech Wildcatters.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting.

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How to Supercharge your Content Marketing with Paid Advertising

Brandanew

Publishers, or Content Producers, can pay a Cost-per-Click to have their ads appear beside editorial content on Mashable, People, CNN, ESPN, Fortune, Hearst, The Washington Post, Time Inc., Taboola was founded in 2007 in New York City, and has been competing with Outbrain head-to-head almost from day one.

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US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs

Both Sides of the Table

Washington is in no mood to take stimulatory action – for a long time : While there was a momentary unity in the US government for bailouts & stimulus spending that were initiated in the Bush administration (many people conveniently forget this now) and continued under Obama, it is clear that this era of consensus is over.

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Visit to Case Foundation and Startup America

David Teten

On February 16, I visited Washington, DC, where I attended an HBS Club of DC lunch on the Case Foundation and Startup America. Michael Smith, leader of the Social Innovation team at the Case Foundation , introduced the Foundation as a non-profit started in 1997 by Steve Case (AOL co-founder) and his wife, Jean Case.

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

www.xconomy.com

Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. Co-Founder and CEO, Wetpaint. Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation. of Washington. After beginning their fund-raising efforts in 2007, the firm was ready to close in the fall of 2008—when the financial crisis hit Wall Street. Subscribe for Free.

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How One Letter Could Be Worth $25 Billion

Growthink Blog

Yes, the Ted Leonsis who co-founded AOL and now owns the NHL's Washington Capitals and the NBA's Washington Wizards (among lots of other things). Specifically, Groupon launched in November 2007 under the name The Point (ThePoint.com is still live today). Recently, Ted Leonsis told me an incredible story.