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Russia's Skolkovo Project Will Have To Overcome Toxic Bureaucracy If It Wants...
This summer’s Startup Village event that took place outside Moscow is one of several innovations from Russia that is trying to open up Moscow to global VCs, investors and entrepreneurs and brand the...
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Matt Ehrlichman Sold His First Startup At Age 28 For $60 Million, And Now...
There's a hot new competitor to Angie's List that launched today called Porch.com.Like Angie's List, Porch helps you find home improvement professionals by checking recommendations. But it goes one...
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The Biggest Mistakes A Once-Buzzy, Now-Dead Startup Made
Sonar, an app that helps introduce people to relevant strangers in the same room, has died.There was a time when the startup's future looked bright. Sonar generated a lot of buzz at TechCrunch Disrupt...
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Fred Wilson: The Less Money You Raise, The More Successful Your Startup Will Be
Running out of money is one sure way to kill a startup. But Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson suggests raising too much can also kill startups too.He's been in the venture game for multiple decades...
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VCs: This Is How To Make Sure The Company You're Incubating Will Actually...
This post is Part II in a series of articles about incubating a company. See Part I: I Just Incubated A Company — It's The Most Interesting Thing I Do As A Venture CapitalistWhen analyzing a market, it...
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Understanding The Startup Investment Process
In this article I wish to provide you with an overview of fundraising terminology, concepts and initial strategy. Understanding it is one of the most important lessons to learn when entering the world...
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31 Bars And Restaurants Where New York's Coolest Tech People Schmooze
New York City really isn't all that big. And when you break it down into the trendy areas where tech professionals hang out, it becomes a very small world indeed.At certain coffee and drink spots in...
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Venture Capitalist Says Tech Is In A Bubble Because There Are Too Many 'Hot...
Sam Altman, CEO of Loopt and a Silicon Valley venture capitalist in his own right, says the startup scene is "out of whack" and probably in a bubble. Altman is a partner at YCombinator, and he has...
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5 Social Media Dos And Don'ts For Startups Looking For Funding
Starting this week, startups and entrepreneurs can officially advertise their securities offerings to accredited investors, thanks to the SEC lifting the decades-old ban on general solicitation...
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How Much Money Does A New Startup Need?
This post is Part III in a series of articles about incubating a company. See Part II: VCs: This Is How To Make Sure The Company You're Incubating Will Actually Survive On The MarketAfter we concluded...
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70 Million People Used This Startup's Software Last Month, But You've Never...
Unless you're plugged into the Danish startup scene, you've probably never heard of Issuu.What is weird about that: 70 million people used Issuu's software last month.Issuu is a...
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How To Find Great Business Ideas From All Over The World
Do you want to start a company or come up with that genius idea for your current company?Of course you do.But if it was easy to come up with the Next Big Thing, we would all do it. So here's a secret....
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How Many Startups Are Worth $1 Billion Or More?
Aileen Lee has a really good post up on TechCrunch, in which she analyzes the number of companies that have been started since 2003 that have gone on to be worth $1bn or more.This is a very useful...
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I Was Never Truly Intellectually Stimulated Until I Found Startups
Intelligence means different things depending on the context. HubSpot’s Dharmesh Shah and I have a long-standing debate about the value of raw intelligence in starting a company. My argument to him...
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BuzzFeed's Former Creative Director Launches A Startup That Eliminates All...
Last month, viral advertising expert Chris Baker left his job as Creative Director of BuzzFeed. Today he unleashed a new startup he hopes will go viral, Rather.Rather is a spin-off of Unbaby.me, a joke...
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Everyone Will Be Watching Wix's $119 Million IPO This Week (WIX)
Israeli startup Wix has been talking up IPO plans for what seems like forever and on Wednesday the company will finally go public.It filed its paperwork with the SEC in May using the confidential...
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Troy Carter Loses His Claim To Fame, Reportedly Splits From Lady Gaga While...
Troy Carter is best known as Lady Gaga's manager, but he's also an investor in startups like Uber and Dropbox.Now, he's lost his greatest claim to fame. He and Lady Gaga have split over "creative...
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How A $35,000 Bill From Amazon Helped Put A Startup Out Of Business
Photo-sharing startup Everpix has closed its doors, the founders sadly announced on its website. The two-year-old startup raised $1.8 million in angel and seed rounds, and took on $625,000 in debt,...
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This College Hacker Asked Facebook For The Hottest Silicon Valley...
Earlier this year, Dave Fontenot founded the largest undergraduate hackathon in the US.MHacks brings together more than 1,000 students from universities around the world for three days of hacking and...
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AOL Cracks Down On A Startup For Downloading 'CrunchBase' Data
AOL lawyers sent a cease-and-desist letter to three-person startup Pro Populi. They were not pleased that Pro Populi had downloaded the entire CrunchBase database.Pro Populi makes an app for...
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