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How To Start A Startup – For Busy People

YoungUpstarts

Survey Monkey acquired them in 2011. If you want to avoid a $500k bill (like that paid by one Connecticut startup) to later move your company to Delaware, incorporate in Delaware from day one. Kevin Hale, Founder, Wufoo, and Partner, Y Combinator. The average startup raises about $25 million. Wufoo raised about $118,000.

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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

In 2011, Yale launched Yale-NUS, a sister university based in Singapore. We have evolved into an educational organization, holding investor education events in New Jersey , NY, Florida, Connecticut, Toronto, and San Francisco, as well as many webinars. There are currently over 1,000 Chinese students and scholars at Yale.

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The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Steve Blank

We ran the first National Science Foundation Innovation Corps class October to December 2011. In-between the 2011 pilot class and the first NSF class of 2012, I got a call from Congressman Dan Lipinski. Principal Investigator: Yu Lei University of Connecticut. Congressman Lipinski Gets It. MEMS-based drug infusion pumps.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart. based companies initially funded by venture capital between 2006 and 2011, 84% now are closely held and operating independently, 11% were acquired or made initial public offerings of stock and 4% went out of business, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. Connecticut.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – June 2012 Edition

VC Cafe

This is Facebook’s second acquisition in Israel, following the acquisition of Snaptu for $70m in March 2011. Stanley is headquartered in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. Global sales in 2011 were $2.76 Facebook’s acquisition of Face.com will enable the social network to embed face recognition software into its photo app.

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Pricing experiments you might not know, but can learn from

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Oct 31, 2011. Marketing professors at Clark University and The University of Connecticut found that consumers perceive sale prices to be a better value when the price is written in a small font rather than a large, bold typeface. © ConversionXL 2011 | Conversion Rate Optimization Advice | Email: info@conversionxl.com. ).

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