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How To Choose A Market For Your Startup Or Small Business

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Is your new startup targeting auctions? … Due to the relatively small potential contract values in restaurants, startups serving these customer segments have to build very efficient sales teams or online customer acquisition tools to aggregate many of them inexpensively. . The other half is commercial gallery sales.

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Qunb wins the LeWeb 12 startup competition, helps users find and visualize numerical data

The Next Web

So has the startup competition, an important part of the annual conference for Europe’s finest in tech. And the winner is … Qunb , a Paris, France-based startup that wants to help users – both individuals and corporations – find, share, visualize and download numerical data. Le Web Paris 2012 has come to an end.

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Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

Startup Lessons Learned

Ash Maurya is the founder of WiredReach , a bootstrapped startup that he has been running for seven years. Recently, he was bitten by the lean startup bug and has started writing about his experiences attempting to apply lean startup and customer development principles.

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Four Building Blocks for the New “Second Industrial Revolution”

Rob Go

The interesting thing is that while many entrepreneurs, tech executives, and investors are short-term nervous about the fate of internet-enabled startups, most are incredibly long-term bullish. This creates implied social graphs, driven by actual behavior outside of social networks, based on data from emails, sms, etc.

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Innovate Israel Conference Brings 28 Israeli startups to London

VC Cafe

There hasn’t been such a full list of Israeli startups coming to Europe since Barcelona’s World Mobile Congress. The UK is Israel’s second largest export market following the US, but Israeli startups often ‘forget Europe’ when it comes to Internationalizing their product. Applicaster - Company Website.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. It’s not for a lack of technological effort from both startups and huge companies in all of mobile payments’ incarnations – SMS, mobile web, native apps, NFC, etc. NFC, SMS). How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. June 12, 2012.

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8 strategic hacks for building marketplace liquidity

The Next Web

This is in part because these businesses are unencumbered by legacy constraints that had previously been hardwired into the companies and industries these startups are trying to disrupt. Start with aggregating scarce and in-demand inventory. Many investors love “disruptive” businesses. Leverage influencers for liquidity.

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