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500 Startups unveils its Fall 2012 accelerator lineup: More international and more sh*t founders say

The Next Web

Startups in this class come from far and away, including Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, India, Japan, Italy, Latvia & Estonia, Spain, and Taiwan. Privy: online advertising for small/medium-sized businesses. accelerator and brought on two venture partners to help oversee its India investments.

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14 List Building Hacks to Grow Your Email Database Fast

ConversionXL

How many businesses can afford to take away $50k from their online advertising channels to grow their email database? Here’s an example of one we ran for Web Profits… And here’s the page you see after you enter… As you can see, you get 3 extra entries for each person who signs up through your referral link. Which links to….

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How to Run Effective Online Sweepstakes Campaigns

ConversionXL

Appsumo is an daily deals website for the coolest web apps and other digitally distributed goods. Unique Hotels is a small group lifestyle hotels located mainly in Tallinn, Estonia and Manor house just outside the city. With so many sweepstakes on the web, a great prize is far from enough to get people to share yours.

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32 Business and Life Lessons: What I Learned Running Companies on 4 Different Continents

ConversionXL

It was then when I launched (along with my girlfriend) my first web project, called it Dreaminder. I had a degree in Information Technology, had worked as a web developer, tech support guy, account manager, sales person and a marketer. The job was building relationships with partners and advertisers and to sell advertising.

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How technology can disrupt a Government.

Start Up Blog

Digital Residency – Estonia now allows people to become virtual citizens. This residency allows banking, business, trading as if a citizen, all using web based technology. By doing so Estonia will attract money from overseas without human movement. While this seems super radical, it is in hindsight, inevitable.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Update: Part 2: Finding Your Co-Founders CrunchBase Information Seth Sternberg meebo Information provided by CrunchBase Tweet Next Post Previous Post Advertisement Now Commented Facebook Goodbye, MacBook Pro. It really needs some rounded corners for that web 2.0 The New MacBook Air Is That Good. The New MacBook Air Is That Good.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

He is responsible for bringing in revenue from advertising and their careers offering. They didn’t focus on building for the web and they lost a great opportunity to win the transition to browser based applications. Jeff Atwood is the person responsible for product and user experience across all of their sites.