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The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders | TechCrunch

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The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders. Thursday, February 23rd, 2012. This is a guest post by Scott Allison, CEO and founder of Teamly.com. It seems learning to code has become a theme in 2012, and the demand is being met by Code Year and others. guest author. And then later that year, for personal reasons he left.

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30 Entrepreneur Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

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Since my co-founders and I haven't agreed on the company name yet, we decided to post in one of the Business Naming Facebook groups that we joined. My wife and I co-founded our Web development and digital marketing agency atCommunications, LLC in 1999. Thanks to Roy Morejon, Enventys Partners ! #10-

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How to Get Funding from Billionaire Investor Mark Cuban and Other Stories

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How a now-famous web company got funded by Mark Cuban. Rob Biederman, co-founder of HourlyNerd, has a funding story that wouldn’t be out of place in a movie. But, before they were big names, they were simply a team that needed additional money urgently to pay their website development firm. Look to the government.

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Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups

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Thursday, August 9th, 2012. Alexia Tsotsis is the co-editor of TechCrunch. Disrupt SF 2012. Disrupt SF Hackathon 2012. Front End Developer Visual Supply Company Front End Web Developer Elastic Ruby on Rails Web Developer Quirky, Inc Front-End Developer Quirky, Inc Back-End Developer Quirky, Inc.

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IGNITE! pitch event at Microsoft – September 4

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Chalkable provides the core tools a school needs like gradebook, calendar, feed, and attendance and allow 3rd party web apps to tap into that data via our API. This allows teachers to use amazing web tools in the classroom effortlessly. We piloted in 3 schools and will be in 50 schools in Fall 2012. Welcome to the virtual mall.

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Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S

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July 9, 2012 at 10:21 am by John Cook Leave a Comment. Web Developer. Voted “Next Tech Titan” at the 2012 GeekWire Startup Awards, Tableau Software is on a huge growth trajectory. 07/06/2012. Co-founder, National Editor. 07/04/2012. Co-founder, National Editor. 07/03/2012. . -->.

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Mentoring the mentors: Advice and inspiration for startup mentors

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Search for: July 3rd, 2012. Last year around the time PIE was starting, David Cohen , cofounder of TechStars , shared the TechStars Mentor Manifesto. 3 Responses to “Mentoring the mentors: Advice and inspiration for startup mentors” Darrin says: July 8, 2012 at 11:59 am. Nick Wade says: July 10, 2012 at 11:25 pm.