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4 Considerations for Expanding Your Startup to International Markets

mashable.com

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. It’s critical to establish this component of your business before thinking seriously about growth. in place before you expand. Give it some thought!

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. By 2010-2011 this had shrunk by half again, averaging under $15 billion. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3 Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! And the future?

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First (and not last) time at iOSDevCamp 2011

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

The hackathon follows a similar format of a Startup Weekend, Friday night – networking, idea pitches, some teams form, Saturday – teams done forming, hack hack hack, and Sunday - hack, submit, present your hack. Before the weekend, all the attendees can create profiles on CrowdVine.com, a social network for events.

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It’s Not a Conversion Problem, It’s a Customer Development Problem

ConversionXL

Startups rarely survive by guessing, and can only create products and business models based on facts about their target market. Fabulis.com was initially intended to to be a social network for gay men. Problem was, Facebook, Yelp and Groupon were gay enough where a dedicated social network wasn’t entirely necessary.

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A Rake Too Far: Optimal Platform Pricing Strategy

abovethecrowd.com

As an example, eBay’s 2011 marketplace revenues were approximately $6.6B A high rake will allow you to achieve larger revenues faster, but it will eventually represent a strategic red flag – a pricing umbrella that can be exploited by others in the ecosystem, perhaps by someone with a more disruptive business model.

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The New Boom

Growthink Blog

technologies like social networking, mobile gaming, and interactive advertising, in 2011 new fortunes and legends are being made. social networking hype of 2006-2007. As importantly, because of the rise of global social networking - Facebook now has 300 million non-U.S. Here’s why: 1. The result?

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

The New Bubble : (2011 – 2014): Here we go again…. (If This next wave of web startups; Social Networks and Mobile Applications, now reached 100’s of millions of customers. Rather they understood that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.

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