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Startup Investor Makes a Deal: Engineers for Equity

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. “Most of that money [from venture capitalists and angels] is used to build a product,&# explains Haig Kayserian, the CEO of Kayweb Angels. “Once that product is built, you will probably have given away a lot of equity.&#

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

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Sign in All Social Media Tech & Gadgets Business & Marketing Video Mobile Dev & Design Media Social Good Startups Classifieds Mashable Infographics Prev Next How Are People Using Twitter? LinkedIn was curious, so the business social network decided to find out. Whom is he or she connected to?

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4 Considerations for Expanding Your Startup to International Markets

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and China, and recently recorded their 1,000,000th download of Bonita Open Solution. Clearly Define Your Business Model While this may sound like a trivial task, young startups often have an exciting and innovative product, but no real plan for monetizing it. BonitaSoft has offices in France, the U.S.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

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a New York-based sizzle reel production company specializing in promotional videos for PR and marketing professionals, and the Young Entrepreneur Council. It will be important that your CTO can execute on big projects, too, hacking away to build an amazing product that is agile. Brenton Gieser , Be Social Change.

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5 Hot Ecommerce Trends to Watch

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Unusual or Commoditized Products. These products compete on individuality and aesthetics more than price. Lifeproof , a line of waterproof and shock-resistant iPhone cases, aligned itself with Best Buy for this very reason, and it was able to penetrate the mainstream audience, whereas before it was simply a niche product.

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How to Plan Your Social Integration Strategy

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Unfortunately, the web is ripe with sites that offer social implementations that miss the mark. And often, businesses suffer from a “set it and forget” mentality, in which a product manager will slap a Facebook Like button on his sites and declare the business’s website now social. Quite frankly, that is not enough.

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How Web APIs Unlock Value in the Cloud

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David Schoenbach is vice president of product management at Exadel Inc. There he heads product definition, marketing, and sales of the Tiggzi , a platform for mobile development. It’s where social user-generated content sits, where forward-thinking creators place their tools. Open Source Lists. Productivity Lists.

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