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HOW TO: Sign Up Users Even Before You Launch Your Startup

mashable.com

Within a few days, the site received thousands of user signups, according to its founder Mark Davis. raked in five-figure daily signups after announcing its upcoming launch, according to the site’s founders. In April, “stealth” social media startup Kohort announced its upcoming launch. It got 10% conversion,” Carrella says.

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[Singapore] Remote, Freelance, Online Work Taking Off Here

YoungUpstarts

Clients in Singapore hired most freelancers from India, United States, Pakistan, United Kingdom and Philippines. Clients in Singapore hired most freelancers from India, United States, Pakistan, United Kingdom and Philippines. Of special note is Singapore, which has emerged as amongst Elance’s top 10 hiring countries at No.

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12 Top Picks: Austin Startup Week on Oct 12

Austin Startup

Building Your Business on Open Source Data 10:00 am at Galvanize Featuring Data.world co-founder and CTO Bryon Jacob, this panel will explore the increasingly important role of open source data science in the startup economy. Why do these communities matter? How can you leverage open source data science tools to build your business?

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200.000.000 mobile users, for starters – Q&A with Viber CEO Talmon Marco

The Next Web

We had a chat with Viber founder and CEO Talmon Marco to go beyond the facts in the press release and see how the company is faring. How, when and why did you co-found Viber Media? We recently announced partnerships with Axis in Indonesia and Mobilink in Pakistan. TM: I was born in Israel, spent most of my adult life in the US.

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The long road to bringing an idea to life: MySizeFinder Case Study

Life Beyond Code

So Sunil (founder and president ) of Mokriya helped us find a free agent called Shahaan in Pakistan. There are two people who quickly came back with suggestions on positioning of the application – my friends Ted Rubin (now Chief Social Marketing Officer of Collective Bias) and Liz Strauss (co-founder of SOBCon ).

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5 Lessons Entrepreneurs Can Learn From the Navy SEALs

Seeing Both Sides

Will was kind enough to introduce me to a SEAL classmate of his, Brendan Rogers (SEAL 1990-2000), who joined me and 20 NYC CEOs/founders from the tech scene last night to talk about the SEALs - the training, the planning and the operations behind their combat operations - as well as draw out some relevant lessons for entrepreneurs.

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How Virtual Assistants Are Reshaping The Business Landscape

Duct Tape Marketing

And so I got virtual assistance and I started out in India and then I was in Pakistan and in Sri Lanka and Vietnam and all over the place. (07:50): Speaking with Joe Rare, uh, founder of Level 9 virtual, Joe, I appreciate you stopping by the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. You can find it @marketingassessment.co, not.com, dot co.