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10 Shockingly Terrible Startup Pitches
Giving a good pitch can make your career as an entrepreneur. Giving a bad pitch can break it.When you pitch investors on your startup, they aren't just watching you to see if they want to invest. They...
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A Startup You've Never Heard Of Called Supercell Is Suddenly Worth $600 Million
Somewhere in Scandanavia there's a startup. And investors think that startup is worth a lot of money.Supercell is a two-year-old company that is cashing in on iOS games. Titles include Hay Day and...
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This Photo Illustrates How Hard It Is For A Startup To Succeed
A great idea and hard work are obviously essential for startups. Even more important? Timing.We recently spoke to Roman Stanek, the founder and CEO of GoodData, who previously sold NetBeans to Sun...
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In Case You Thought Making Millions Building iPhone Apps Was Easy... (AAPL)
The New York Times today has a story about how not everyone who makes iPhones apps for a living makes it big.Daveid Streitfeld's story centers on a couple, Shawn and Stephanie Grimes.Shawn got laid off...
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Chinese Tech Firm Rewards Its Employees For Falling In Love
CHENGDU- In China’s own Silicon Valley in Sichuan Province, the Chengdu cloud computing company has decided to reward its employees for falling in love, reports the People’s Daily.The "Love Bonus" was...
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The 25 Coolest New Businesses In Philadelphia
Philadelphia is not just a historical stopover anymore. It's a growing hub for startups, an emerging culinary center, and a great place to open a business.Click here to go straight to the businesses...
View ArticleMost Startup Founders Aren't Cut Out To Run Their Companies
Almost all startups have a CEO – the person that sits atop the org chart – but not all have a CDM (Chief Decision Maker). Every new business needs one person who is going to make important decisions...
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The Most Influential Startup Investor In Silicon Valley Says This Is How You...
Want to do your own startup? Step one is coming up with an idea for something could eventually blossom into a business.How do you come up with that idea? Paul Graham, who sees hundreds of startup ideas...
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This Guy Left A Cushy Job At Google To Do A Startup ... And Now He's Up To...
You're always hearing about how people quit their cushy jobs to do a startup and then got rich.But sometimes the story doesn't go that way.Before GoalSponsors founder David Murray landed a role on...
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How To Grow Your Company Like Zappos
When Tony Hsieh first got involved at Zappos.com in 1999, it was as an investor and advisor.He had already sold a company—Internet advertiser LinkExchange—to Microsoft for $265 million because it was...
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Cleeng Lets Publishers Kind Of Charge You For Web Content, And It Has Raised...
Publishers like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal have full-blown pay walls that prevent people from reading their content without coughing up a monthly fee.Others make all of their...
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America's Two Earliest Startups Gave True Meaning To The Word 'Perseverance'
Ask any successful entrepreneur or investor what attributes are critical to building a successful business, and it's a safe bet that "perseverance" will be near the top of the list.And there's no...
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I Wasted Nine Months With No Startup Growth Because Of One Bad Hire
I have learned to pay attention in life when the hairs stand up on the back of my neck or my stomach churns, as if my gut instinct is saying, “Something’s not right here.” I also get an equally...
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FRED WILSON: What Has Changed
Union Square Ventures founder Fred Wilson addresses the slowdown in VC investments in consumer Internet companies on his blog, A VC. His post is entitled "What Has Changed."As I read this post in the...
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Enough With The Startup Failure Porn
There have been over 300 new startups launched in Dublin over the last year. It’s a great stat and one which genuinely underpins our ‘startup country’ marketing. I think there’s a growing realisation...
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'The Biggest Problem In Mobile'
According to VC Fred Wilson, one big reason consumer startups are not very attractive to venture capital investors at the moment is that "the consumer is moving from desktop/web to mobile/app" and...
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Why Most People Fail At Launching Their Second Companies
For startups, a big part of the battle is becoming visible. It's difficult to grow when nobody knows who you are. Unfortunately, the things that can make you visible, big ideas, big promises, and being...
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Greycroft: 'We Have Too Many Startups At The Moment'
There has been a lot of talk lately about a Series A funding cliff and how it's becoming harder for early stage startups to raise money.But Greycroft Managing Director Alan Patricof said at our...
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This Startup For Moms Built A Business For Six Years Before Raising $1.2 Million
Parents don't always have the easiest time finding things to do with their kids.That's where Red Tricycle comes in. It just raised a $1.5 million round led by Maveron with participation from 500...
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The Real Reason Y Combinator Stopped Giving Startups So Much Cash
Y Combinator, Paul Graham's startup accelerator program, recently announced a new venture fund, YC VC.Under the structure of the new fund, four investors, Yuri Milner, Andreessen Horowitz, General...
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