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Startup Map & Trends Analysis – September 2012

Gust

However, the states with the highest monthly increase in percentage terms were South Dakota, Kentucky, and Hawaii, also likely due to their small baselines, but yet demonstrating a potentially interesting trend.

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2010 VC Funding Outlook for Startups – Prepare for Winter (Part 3/3)

Both Sides of the Table

Consumer spending is 70% of the economy and will continue to be stretched – We can look all we want at tech innovation, VC funding cycles and hot M&A deals, but ultimately growth and therefore investment must be underpinned by revenue. So we loaded up on flat screen TVs, multiple generations of iPods and trips to Hawaii.

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A Guide For Men Who Refuse To Settle

Duct Tape Marketing

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Well, in our rather cushy modern world danger could be like, I, I can't go a day without high speed internet. You know, like if you watch, how, how people get spun out about traffic or not have having internet, like I said, are not having their favorite, whatever.

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Digital Design & User Experience Best Practices: Happiness + Profits!

Occam's Razor

Empower customer reviews that are actually helpful. For example, I type in for "trip to Hawaii" (not an esoteric destination) into Google. Personalization is hard from a technology perspective. The information (reviews, pictures etc) contributed for free by existing Rent The Runway users. How crazy is that?

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I had a lot of fun learning what the internet could do for me. In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. I didn’t have a contractor doing technical things for me. Where am I today?

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

Loading… Tech. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. Mossberg Reviews the iPhone 5. INTERNET BUSINESSES. General Internet. - Web Design/Tech Services. Computer And Internet. » More. » More. Loading… New York.

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US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs

Both Sides of the Table

This has been especially true for angels or seed investors as there is a new thesis that less capital is needed to start Internet companies so more money is being spent at this phase of the funding lifecycle. Either won’t bode well for angels if they’re also hurting on non tech investments. Such is the case with advanced batteries.