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Crowdsourcing Hope With Online Donation Platform GoFundMe

YoungUpstarts

San-Diego, California-based GoFundMe essentially is a crowdfunding platform that lets someone collect donations for a personal cause or a life event. The site lets users manage their campaigns, thank donors and even communicate with supporters. Enter a website called GoFundMe.com.

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A new field guide for entrepreneurs of all stripes

Startup Lessons Learned

In this excerpt from The Lean Entrepreneur , by using fishing as an analogy, Brant and Patrick reveal how market segmentation influences your business model and why “For Whom” is as important as “What” to build. Market segments drive your business model. Copyright © 2012 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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Forget Presidential Politics: Here’s How We Create Jobs — And How You Can Help

Gust

As I write this, days after the 2012 presidential election, I’m probably not alone in feeling relieved that the political jeering and soapboxing that reached a feverish pitch during the seemingly endless campaign season has finally subsided. Most of the technology industry is notoriously apolitical. misses an opportunity.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

The Carson, California company employs about 800 people in its 4 Southern California plants. Now, we can share our proven business model with people everywhere. I became a business owner because I could. We offer a little bit of family in every meal, everybody that touches this recipe gives something to it.

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Strangling Innovation: Tesla versus “Rent Seekers”

Steve Blank

This got me thinking about the legal obstacles that face innovators with new business models. Rent seekers are individuals or organizations that have succeeded with existing business models and look to the government and regulators as their first line of defense against innovative competition. Rent Seekers.

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

online.wsj.com

SMALL BUSINESS. September 19, 2012, 9:32 p.m. When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

www.usatoday.com

Americas new business model: Sharing. What distinguishes the latest generation of start-ups is a confluence of new technologies and more-efficient business models that leave much of the logistical heavy-lifting to peers who share. Americas new business model: Sharing. Game Hunters. Jinny Gudmundsen.