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Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups

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The two Data Collective managing partners, who are currently raising fund number two, tell me that the timing is right for a fund committed exclusively to Big Data companies, as the barriers to entry in launching these sorts of startups are only getting lower. The partners are currently in the middle of successfully raising their second fund.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

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In our first year we invested thousands (many, many) of dollars on web development, marketing materials, logos, and branding and our local market was starting to become familiar with our name. 9- My partner screamed it out. My partner and I were in college on Long Island and that’s also where we grew up.

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4 Considerations for Expanding Your Startup to International Markets

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BonitaSoft has offices in France, the U.S. Also consider an area for its potential business partners (software integrators, resellers, etc.) from France. Partners W3 EDGE Concentric Sky Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS Webtrends Global Syndication Partners ABCNews CNN Metro USAToday Yahoo ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc.

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Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt?

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Yokum Taku, Corporate and Securities Partner at the Palo Alto, California Office of Wilson Sonsini agrees, “I can’t think of a good reason not to shift early stage seed financings toward convertible equity away from convertible debt.”. Kleiner Perkins Partners With Rock Health To Give Health Tech Startups A Boost. Crunchboard.

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Startup Investor Makes a Deal: Engineers for Equity

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With more than 40 million monthly pageviews, Mashable is the most prolific news site reporting breaking web news, providing analysis of trends, reviewing new Web sites and services, and offering social media resources and guides. Have an account? Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited. startupcto

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LinkedIn Explores What It Takes To Be an Entrepreneur [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Partners W3 EDGE Concentric Sky Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS Webtrends Global Syndication Partners ABCNews CNN Metro USAToday Yahoo ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc. Have an account? With more than 50 million monthly pageviews and 4 million followers across social media, Mashable has one of the most engaged online news communities.

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How Web APIs Unlock Value in the Cloud

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It enables consistent access to objects in their system (people, photos, events, and pages) and lets developers also access the connections between them (friend relationships, shared content, and photo tags). Commerce: eBay alone has a developer community of more than 800,000 members using its APIs. Top From Our Partners.

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