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The Next Bubble – Don’t Get Fooled Again

Steve Blank

Bubbles are not new; we have had them for hundreds of years (the Tulip Mania , South Sea Company , Mississippi Company , etc.). No one doubts that social networks and web and mobile applications are reinventing commerce. (It also has the “smart money&# investing early and taking profits before the crash.).

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How Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs) Can Help Your Business

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Each SBDC offers a mix of web-based and in-person resources. Mississippi State University helps process the data each year and organizes the results for the ASBDC. In fact, many advisors used their local SBDC to help get their own businesses up and running! Do I have to visit my local SBDC or do they have online resources?

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

www.foliomag.com

Tool: Adobe Sitecatalyst URL: Omniture.com/sitecatalyst What it does: Segments traffic to determine “high-value” Web visitors and offers real-time analytics. The breakdown: “We get most of our Facebook data by marrying up Facebook Insights data with our Web analytics from Adobe Sitecatalyst. Web/Internet/IT/eMedia. Mississippi.

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

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Web Design/Tech Services. Mississippi. Mississippi. WSJ Web Slice. LINKS TO ACTUAL PAGE CONTAINING WEB SLICE FUNCTIONALITY. - Travel Agencies. INTERNET BUSINESSES. Business Services (B2B). Consumer Services (B2C). Domain Name/Basic Site. General Internet. - ISP/ASP Services. Software. - MANUFACTURING BUSINESSES.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

If you get a call from a VCfirm, go to their web site and check whether the person you talkedto is a partner. Odds are it will be a junior person; they scourthe web looking for startups their bosses could invest in. Most firmsalso have a handful of junior employees called something likeassociates or analysts.

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The Evolving Economics of the App

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Opinion: Best of the Web Today: Follow the Minnie. Questions and Answers About HIV Cure The report that a 2½-year- old Mississippi baby appears to be cured of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has provoked intense interest, excitement and some skepticism among AIDS researchers and the community at large. WSJ Web Slice.