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How To Get Ready To Participate In An Acceleration Program

YoungUpstarts

If the mentors are not assigned by the program and you actually have the opportunity to choose your own, make sure to do your due diligence first. Marc has a background in online marketing, with a focus in SEO and SEM. Research your options and pick the right mentor according to your market and industry.

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

www.reincubate.com

Ability to explain to the following technologies, standards and regulations to non-technical staff: AJAX, UNIX, RFC, W3C, HTTP, RDBMS, SCM, SEM, PBX, SEO, P3P, PCI-DSS, DPA, XP. Past contribution to one or more Open Source projects. Personal Entrepreneurial attitude. Ability to excel under pressure.

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Trada – from the beginning

VC Adventure

As a result, we are all emotionally involved in the investment (a phrase you’ll see in later posts about this topic) which I believe is both beneficial to the entrepreneur and extremely important to the VC firm. It’s a great example of how we like to work with entrepreneurs – especially those that we have a long history with.