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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. Criteo was founded in 2005 in France; now based in Palo Alto, CA.

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Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. Accept that many successful companies are going to want to be backed by big-name firms in other cities. Instead, focus on getting them ready for that stage. And do your customer development. Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

The group also hosts its annual QPrize competition, awarding winners with $750,000 in seed funding. Roberts talks of social networks as mediums that may very well help your product or name attract VC attention. Advice for First-Timers If you’re a first-timer, Kapor highly recommends building a working product prior to pitching.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise GreenTech CrunchBase TechCrunch TV Disrupt SF More TechCrunch TV Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch Europe TechCrunch Trends TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan Whats Hot: Android Apple Facebook Google Microsoft Twitter Yahoo Zynga Subscribe: Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy?

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How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k

www.thestartup.eu

Posted by Stefano Bernardi On June - 21 - 2010 It’s a known fact that seed capital is very scarce in Italy. You created what appears to be a cool product, but without a revenue model, you don’t really have a bootstrap. TheStartup.eu Meet Tipsandtrip. CEO Marco Magnocavallo.