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FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011

David Teten

The trick is delivering business insights over this channel: use social networks to support relationship management. I think android / 4g networks will take over tablets. FRIED: Prevalent notion of a corporate network is very antiquated: a firewall around it and unlimited communication within. Ask the senator who was on TV.

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Twitter Link Roundup #60 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Employee Equity: Restricted Stock and RSUs on #mbamondays – [link]. Useful comparison of Amazon vs. Rackspace clouds & why Mixpanel is moving to EC2 – [link]. The 4G forgery – T-Mobile does not have a 4G network – [link]. Brian Chesky of AirBnB (from Startup School) – [link] ?

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Social networking. Amazon EC2. Create your own social network. free enterprise social network. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Founder Equity Issues. Venture Hacks equity section. Legal, Equity, etc. Mailing lists/groups. Google Groups. Forms/Surveys. Google Forms. Google Ads.

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Pinterest – a case study in capital efficiency

The Equity Kicker

Pinterest now supports 18m users with growth running at 50% per month with the following: Amazon costs are around $39k for S3 and $30k for EC2 (I assume per month). They have 275 EC2 instances. Traffic costs them $52 an hour during peak times, down to $15 during the night. They have 31 employees, up from 12 in December.

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The Last Lean Startup Bundle: 48 hours to claim $3,000,000 in prizes

Startup Lessons Learned

People who would never bother with an entrepreneur’s blog, who may not even see themselves as entrepreneurs: shopkeepers and policy makers, CFO’s and private equity managers, and even future entrepreneurs. This blog post is going to be long, and below you will see every last detail of every last tier of prizes. No exceptions, sorry.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Google Apps – Email, Chat, Docs Skype - free voice and video communication tool Campfire – team collaboration Slideshare – share Powerpoints and docs with customers Ning – Create your own social network Yammer – free enterprise social network Doodle – online group scheduling Freeconferencecall.com – Free conference (..)

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. The founders may believe they are onto such a good idea that they don’t want to give up any equity. To keep the equity we out-sourced.