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Practical Strategies For Starting A Business

Duct Tape Marketing

You know, could you look at my business plan? See if the business model works, all these questions. So we got a space in San Francisco, we launched the founders space accelerator, and it just spread from there. John Jantsch (14:46): So Steve, you, you're still in San. I am actually near San Francisco.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. We have also been very busy with our next release, which is due out by December 11th (but I’ll save that for a different post). Is it a long drive into the City (San Francisco) for you?”

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How to Attract Talent to Your Start-up

www.inc.com

By Issie Lapowsky | Aug 6, 2010 Share ); Getty Related Articles The New Rules of Hiring Is It Legal To Use Social Network Data When Hiring? In the era of social networking, there are tons of sites dedicated to matching qualified applicants with the right employers, including Startupers , VentureLoop and Startuply.

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How to Hire for Sweat Equity…

www.drowningamerican.com

The business plan was starting to look great and all the idea kinks were worked out. What We’re Doing: We’re currently setting the groundwork for an innovative educational web application that will eventually fuse with social networking. In the longer term we will compete with social networks and online advertising.

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My observations of people starting up

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

During my hay day of being an MBA student, I cranked out a bunch of business plans and entered in some competitions. In general, I wanted experience in vetting out business ideas, presenting ideas, and getting feedback from investors and peers. A good startup idea makes for a good business plan, not the other way around.

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Thoughts on Spanish Startups from La Red Innova 2011

VC Cafe

More and more incubators are popping up, students are participating in business plan competitions, and actively look to get involved with startups. 4) The concept of networking is new here. The need for stability and the fear of losing income historically won over the urge for entrepreneurship. But that is now changing.

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Color's Epic Collapse: Why Everybody Is Loving It

ReadWriteStart

That is the real-life story of Color , a once-hot San Francisco startup that raised $41 million in funding before even releasing a product. The concept seemed interesting and shades of Color’s original idea have cropped up in other San Francisco startups, including Highlight. You don't have to imagine it.