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Social Discovery Is Pushing Search and Social Closer

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Persistent rumors of a Facebook search engine, Google s efforts to integrate Google+ into its search results and Microsofts addition of Facebook tagging into Bing results. But Bing has added an element on the right that shows me Facebook friends who, based on their Facebook posts, might be able to answer my question. Enterprise.

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My.

Steve Blank

Posted on December 7, 2009 by steveblank In my 21 years of startups, I had my ideas “stolen” twice. See part one for the first time it happened. I remember presenting our ideas for Marketing Automation to one VP of Marketing in a large Silicon Valley company. This time it was serious. It’s just a story about what happened to me.

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

www.geekwire.com

In fact, interest was so high in Madrona’s latest fund that the backer of companies such as Farecast, Isilon and Amazon.com had to place a limit on how much money it wanted to raise. Filed Under: Startups , Tech Tagged With: Madrona , Startups , Tech , Venture capital. A PC on every wall? Geek of the Week Archive.

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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

cdixon.org

The one risk is if they have entrepreneurs they are working with in a similar area (see next paragraph). Very, very few markets have room for only one player. Quite early on, you will be able to differentiate yourself – and having competitors help you grow the market can actually be a good thing. I agree completely.

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The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth

trada.com

Skip to content Tina MVC for WordPress « Finding The Need for International Pay-Per-Click Campaigns Lijit: A Fun Tool in Your PPC Arsenal » The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth Debate: Stay Stealth? One of my favorite startup debates is about stealth mode. You need all of these people to bake the cake.

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Netflix's Advice on Moving to Amazon Web Services

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Cockcroft says that AWS CDN service isnt a big enough player in the space at this point to use for that service. The next challenge is a political one. The interview shows how one customer is scaling its services with a cloud infrastructure. Thats helpful on a number of levels for companies considering a move to cloud computing.

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Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

I think this concept is necessary in order to answer the truly vexing startup questions, like: “Should startups charge customers money from day one?&# I had a lot of use for this concept back when I worked on game design and virtual worlds. Here’s the ecosystem we built at IMVU, just to give one example.

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