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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Social Integration/Viral Outreach Is your application tied into any social networks? How tight is that integration? Fulfillment?

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Is Silicon Valley Really Coming to an End?

Both Sides of the Table

We once thought Microsoft was a monopoly on the Internet due to IE. Enter social media and its importance as a traffic source. Most large companies (tech or otherwise) have two functions that make it hard to drive the most successful early-stage innovation. It simply hasn’t played out in history. Laughable now.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. 4) Manage deal flow.

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2010 VC Funding Outlook for Startups – Prepare for Winter (Part 3/3)

Both Sides of the Table

I obviously don’t have a crystal ball so the economy could fare better than my gut, but here’s why I’m cautious for some time in 2010 or early 2011: Why is the future still so unpredictable? So I believe that now is the perfect time to build a company and the perfect time for early-stage investors to bet on innovation.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). You can sometimes attract capital from farther away but typically harder to do at early stage.

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Does Your Startup Need A Technical Co-Founder?

ReadWriteStart

This being done in-house means more revenue stays with us, compared to hiring a firm or paying a employee who requires training and possible review process, slowing down the speed of business and still adding a layer of time effort to the management team. When I started my social network, I didn’t have any tech skills.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

Both Sides of the Table

We’re clearly in the early stages on Twitter monetization but let me offer some views on why we find Ad.ly Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). So PPC (pay-per-click) advertising on social networks has performed poorly to date.