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14 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I started Ignite Social Media in 2007 after working in a mid-sized regional ad agency. I didn’t feel we were differentiated enough and, at the same time, I was hearing all this buzz about social media. So in 2015, we launched Carusele to apply digital media targeting to influencer marketing. Thanks to Ira S.

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Why Pitching Your Product Is Not Enough For Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

I would expect to see specific plans for distribution, partnerships, and sales channels, as well as the use of social media and conventional marketing, with budgets for the major elements. Discussion of likely liquidity events and exit strategy. Five-year financial projections of revenue and expenses.

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Keep It Under Your Hat: Valuation Caps and the $650 Million Sale of MySpace for $125 Million

Gust

Redpoint was understandably disappointed that it didn’t get the chance to see its MySpace investment through to an IPO or later liquidity event at a higher multiple. Intermix was in a turnaround situation when I arrived in mid-2004, having been delisted from Nasdaq and nearly bankrupt. of MySpace, Inc.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Social Media Tracking/Marketing. analytics for social media and online. real-time event tracking. social media and email marketing. Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…). bitbucket (mercurial only, basically a copy of github… which isn’t bad). code spaces (svn). PeashootApp.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

What did you take from idea on the back of a napkin to liquidity event? Cassie Boorn , Social Media Coordinator You could try putting a listing up at a site that hires people specifically for Start Ups. Now we turn it around. It's the developer's turn to ask the Biz Guy. What companies have you launched?