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Why You Should Embrace Opposing Views at Your Startup

Both Sides of the Table

I was at a dinner about a year ago with a few VCs and startup founders. What a great way for a guy like me stuck in the 90′s on music to get curated music while I do other stuff. I talked to one company who had build really differentiated IP and had great customer traction. The topic of FourSquare came up.

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Privacy-Oriented Video Sharing With Castr

YoungUpstarts

Brooklyn, New York-based Castr is an upcoming free, open yet anonymous platform for sharing video content, and allows you a space to curate content from all over the web. The site actually doesn’t track your activity nor keep a record of your IP address, so you can be sure your private information is safe.

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StartupRoar - Great Content for Startups

SoCal CTO

For example: Entrepreneurship as a Science – The Business Model/Customer Development Stack Customer Development for Web Startups How To Get Your First 1,000 Users Similarly, when you look at IP / Intellectual Property for Startups, it's dominated by Jill Hubbard Bowman 's wonderful content.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

In the mid-1990s, a good friend of mine, Gene Kim (founder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails: A Business Novel ) and I were in graduate school together in the Computer Science program at the University of Arizona. I believe that looking at hardware curves is always simpler and more accurate.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on. Auto-Tune the News" Curates: Our Fav.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on. Auto-Tune the News" Curates: Our Fav.

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Incorporate Your Startup at the Right Time

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Nellie Akalp is the CEO & Co-Founder of CorpNet , her second incorporation filing service company based on the simple philosophy of truth in business and her strong passion to assist small business owners and entrepreneurs. Auto-Tune the News" Curates: Our Fav. SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP.

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