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Why Investors are Loving Austin as an Innovation Hub!

Austin Startup

To give a high-level snapshot of the activity in just the investment community alone this past June, ATX Venture Partners closed a $150M fund, 8VC filed with the SEC regarding plans to raise an $880M fund and Mainsail Partners, a growth equity fund based in San Francisco, is planning to open an office in Austin this September ( Source: AustinInno ).

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Are you driven by making your investors rich?

The Next Web

ContentDJ helps you identify and share quality content to engage with your online community. What’s crazy about this is that the guy who’s actually making money is being laughed at — it’s just so much better to have a gazillion eyeballs (and no business model). Passive Income vs Startup Guy. A: What are you working on?

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Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment

Steve Blank

I spent two weeks of December in Chile as a guest of Professor Cristóbal García, Director of EmprendeUC at the Catholic University of Chile , which just signed up a 3-year collaboration partnership with Stanford’s Technology Ventures Program. Chile has decided that it wants to be an innovation hub in South America.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

So that means stuff like thinking about what a business model might be, it does mean customer development. I feel like the bar has been raised so much in the last five years in the start up community and I’ve been busy working for a distinctly non-start up company. They have 27 business units.

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How To Write A Business Book That Matters

Duct Tape Marketing

There are two kinds of authors, I think and, and I think a lot of times they fall into maybe business models or how they think about business models. Well, and, and, and if your goal is to build a community, to build a business around a platform, a larger platform around, I know I find it all the time.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Bless you, chile! The programmer will probably not understand your business model, and therefore cant help you point out anything that doesnt make sense in the requirements. Complexity often hides a poor business model. This is really helpful, Derek. LOL Andrew (2010-06-19) # This is great advice. Keep it Simple.