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Twitter Link Roundup #158 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: miiCard | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. Vision | Jordan Cooper’s Blog – [link]. Startups Cannot Afford to Have Indispensable Employees (and not for the reason you think) | Rand’s Blog – [link]. Focus on Customers not Competitors – [link].

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II.

Steve Blank

He started the Stanford Honors Co-op in 1954 which allowed companies in the valley to send their engineers to Stanford graduate engineering programs. In December 1941, the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, and Germany declares war on the United States. What Does WWII Have to Do with Silicon Valley? Just a quick history refresher.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders?

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VC Cafe Turns 9

VC Cafe

Several people sent their congratulations (thank you btw), and it reminded me it’s been a while since I blogged regularly. So, here it goes, 10 highlights from my *humble* blogging experience in the past 9 years: Always be learning – One of my motivations for starting VC Cafe was to understand how blogging works.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Real-time search engine. Competitors: OneRiot , Topsy , Crowdeye , Twitter Summize.

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15 steps to start your own tech business: Part 1

The Next Web

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Christian Reber, CEO and co-founder of Berlin-based 6Wunderkinder. Today he begins a series, cross-posted from his own blog , in which he draws on his experience to offer advice for aspiring entrepreneurs in Europe and beyond. You can follow him on Twitter, where he is @ChristianReber.

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Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more)

Startup Lessons Learned

► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Startup Lessons Learned season one : Every post from the blogs first year in print form. Take a look and let me know what you think.