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How to Keep Starting a Business from Ruining a Friendship

ReadWriteStart

“You’re around each other all the time so it’s easy to bounce ideas around and quickly act on them,” says Go Overseas founder Andrew Dunkle, 27. We started work on the project in Taiwan before relocating to Berkeley, Calif., so Mitch could pursue an MBA.”. Building a buddy business.

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How to get creative with your domain name registration

The Next Web

Stef Lewandowski , co-founder of Makeshift.io, which has launched apps attending.io , hiremyfriend.io domain also references “input/output”, something that Courtney Boyd Myers , founder of audience.io says founder Kellee Khalil. My co-founder] Gavin thought of it, but really knew we wanted a.io “These new.io io” as well.

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Taiwanese TV on Mucker and the Rise of Silicon Beach

Mucker Lab

Unique Business News , a satellite cable news show based out of Taiwan, stopped by Mucker’s offices recently as part of a segment on Silicon Beach. Reporter : Coming from Taiwan, William Hsu is the Co-founder and Partner of Mucker Capital. Ellen Huerta, CEO and Founder of Mend , a MuckerLab participant.

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[Singapore] JFDI.Asia’s Second Accelerator Program This Year Receives Overwhelming Response

YoungUpstarts

Considering that the co-founders wasn’t too sure in 2011 when the incubator started if they could get enough quality raw startups in the Southeast Asia region to make the program work, this number seems astonishing. Other nations made up less than 1% of applications each.

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30 Compelling Reasons to Start a Business

Up and Running

For Will von Bernuth, co-founder of Block Island Organics, a family-run sun care startup, the flexible schedule allows him to help his parents. There are some monetary incentives to starting a business as well, says Fernando Campos, co-founder of Topwick, a members-only journal site that offers insider pricing on certain brands.

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[Asia][Event] Echelon 2013 Agenda, Speaker Lineup And Pitching Startups Revealed

YoungUpstarts

Held on 4 – 5 June 2013 at Singapore Expo MAX Atria, the event will see the likes of top investor Dave McClure, the founding partner at 500 Startups, as well as Sahil Lavingia, founder at Gumroad , speaking at the event.”We’ve POP (Taiwan). TopAdmit (Taiwan). WayGo (Taiwan). MathSpace (Australia).

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500 Startups unveils its Fall 2012 accelerator lineup: More international and more sh*t founders say

The Next Web

In terms of diversity, seven companies in the new class have at least one woman founder. Startups in this class come from far and away, including Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, India, Japan, Italy, Latvia & Estonia, Spain, and Taiwan. Fake it before you make it.”

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