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[Review] Startup Rising

YoungUpstarts

Just a word of warning for those who fall into the latter category – Arab entrepreneurs already understand the latent potential of their birthplaces, and in many cases are well-positioned to rebuild the region’s historical reputation as a center of technology, learning and economic opportunity.

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Exploring the Best Free Crowdfunding Sites Online

The Startup Magazine

While you get funding for your project, backers in return receive rewards or equity depending on the type of crowdfunding. The social proof and validation received from having numerous tangible backers can also be priceless. Another important factor is these sites provide a win-win situation for both project initiators and backers.

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What You Can Learn from a Scorpion

Both Sides of the Table

On the one hand it denied Facebook from enormous amounts of web traffic that Google controlled at the time but in the longer-run due to network effects of social networks it made Facebook significantly more powerful. It is a really big historical decision that Facebook made not to have Google index its pages.

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Important Branding Lessons From The Top 5 Retailers In The US

YoungUpstarts

Walmart, Amazon, Costco, Walgreens, and Home Depot have each built strong brand identities and all benefit from powerful household recognition and strong brand equity. But, the biggest box store hasn’t always had a flawless reputation. They must be doing something right. These are the businesses that we should be learning from.

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ESG in Venture Capital: Interview with Blue Future Partners (VC Fund of Funds)

David Teten

– SignUp.com is an organizing platform to quickly mobilize and coordinate people in their community, school, religious organization, or other social networks. The Boston Consulting Group and MassChallenge , a US-based global network of accelerators, partnered to study why “ women-owned startups are a better bet ”.

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Microsoft’s Bing Fund will give online startups cash, advice, and discounts

venturebeat.com

Social media. Social networking. Social games. The Bing Fund will invest $50,000-$100,000 in early-stage startups, through standard convertible notes (loans that convert to equity at Microsoft’s option). Streaming media. Streaming video. Smartphones. Windows Phone. Google Plus. Skip to secondary content.

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VC Partner Sweet Spot: The Always-Sometimes-Never Rules for Pitching the Right Investor

View from Seed

Always take into account an individual VC’s reputation. Even if a firm has a great reputation, sometimes individuals at that firm aren’t as pristine. Even if a firm has a great reputation, sometimes individuals at that firm aren’t as pristine. A very important question is: Do you want to actually work with this VC?

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