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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook. So it is unsurprising that an over-funding environment and the commensurate returns hangover would have lasted until about – well – 2012.

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Don’t Be Fooled By All The Hype For Crowd Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

The newest equity model was passed into law in early 2012 via the JOBS Act , and still has no scheduled date for availability in the USA, waiting for the rules to be defined by the SEC: Startup equity crowd funding. These also open new concerns about lost intellectual property, Internet scams, and long-term return on investment.

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The Case For Web-Based Mobile Apps – An Interview With UR Mobile

YoungUpstarts

As small businesses increasingly look towards mobile applications as a marketing strategy to reach their customers, the question some of them are asking is this: Is it better to go with a native application (i.e. Google is projecting that by 2016, about 80-percent of all internet users will access the web using a smartphone browser.

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Forget Presidential Politics: Here’s How We Create Jobs — And How You Can Help

Gust

As I write this, days after the 2012 presidential election, I’m probably not alone in feeling relieved that the political jeering and soapboxing that reached a feverish pitch during the seemingly endless campaign season has finally subsided. Granted most startups will never become another Apple or Google. misses an opportunity.

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HTML5: 10 Provocative Predictions For The Future

readwrite.com

Like the “Made for Internet Explorer” badges of the 1990s, developers are now proudly advertising “Made for Chrome” in their apps. In exchange for potentially alienating some users, developers building for Chrome can more aggressively leverage HTML5 APIs and save valuable development and testing time. Not using Chrome?

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Will Crowdfunding Replace Angel And VC Investors?

Startup Professionals Musings

despite having been passed into law in early 2012 via the JOBS Act , and still has no scheduled date for availability, waiting for the rules to be finalized by the SEC. The primary challenge seems to be that the crowdfunding term is used to encompass so many different concepts that everyone is confused.

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Being Too Early and VC Self Improvement

This is going to be BIG.

I asked a few developers I knew about it and the feedback was " Not ready yet, but has conceptual promise and it doesn't suck." One did note that " this kind of platform is going to change the way we educate people in application development ". It would be over two years until he took his first round of capital earlier in 2012.