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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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Berkeley Boalt Law School and runs their entrepreneurship program. Bending over: How to sell to large companies - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 24, 2010 This is a guest post by Steve Hanov , who blogs about programming and startups. But founders need to know how to ask for their advice and when to ignore it.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 75th Session Spotlights The Midwest

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Our co-host for the program was TiE Midwest, based in Chicago. First up, Priyanshu Harshavat, from Evanston, Illinois, presented Socioclean , a service for cleaning up your reputation on social networks. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. I also owe a great debt to Kent Beck, whose Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change was my first introduction to this kind of thinking. (So

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Knowing When It’s Time To Sell Your Startup

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This deal-of-the-day service was founded in November 2008 and quickly became a sensation. Questionable business model. Just 18 months after this photo sharing program and social network was launched, Facebook offered to purchase Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock. Unique social networking product.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Guerrilla P.R. & SEO Most Profitable Customer Acquisition Strategies

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and an affiliate program would also help with customer acquisition. Nifty idea, but the business model is predicated upon selling merchandise that is curated from affiliate networks like Commission Junction. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. Guerrilla p.r. AskHerFriends.com.

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ProfessorVC: Are DEMO's days numbered?

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Bump.com is a social network based on license plate numbers as the identifier. They also gave an entertaining pitch, with biz dev guy Kemp Mullaney playing the role of a harried guy about to enter the 12-step Check-In program before discovering FootFeed. ► 2008. (14). Back to the question posed up top.

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ProfessorVC: Card Counting for Investors

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RCSM is also participating in the TechStars funding alliance that will be providing an offer of $100K in funding upon acceptance into the program. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? ► 2008. (14). A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1).