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

mashable.com

Philadelphia-based startup LaunchRock thinks a company’s “coming soon” page should be more than a placeholder; it should be a place for users to sign up and provide a way to share a new startup with friends. Have an account? Here are four tricks startups have used to make it happen.

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New Plain Preferred Term Sheet

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How do I find a developer to help me with my idea?

www.scottporad.com

Mike, a entrepreneur from Philadelphia, wrote to me with a brief summary of a new business idea he’s working on, and then posed three questions to me about finding a programmer to help him develop the idea. If I were in Mike’s shoes, I would start by talking to people in the Philadelphia Startup community.

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Reflections of America this July 4th

Both Sides of the Table

I know we have a budget deficit and as an economic conservative I believe in smaller government. Every government form in England seemed to ask questions about my parents. He started out in Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, where I was born. In American we have people like Charles Best. At least not in California.

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Does Your Small Business Need Workers’ Compensation Insurance?

YoungUpstarts

In Texas, workers’ compensation insurance is optional unless the business is a construction company on contract for the government. Every state also specifies whether sole proprietors, single member LLCs, partners, and family farms are considered employees and may opt-out or into workers’ comp. The Size of Your Business Might Matter.

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How To Lose Fat And Gain Muscle With Venture Capital

David Teten

At the American Society for Cell Biology Conference last month in Philadelphia, they described their approach as emulating venture capital by maximizing investigator productivity and investing in a portfolio of strong investigators. Nguyen observes that the NIH is taking note of some issues with misallocation of funding incentives.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

At one extreme is the sort of pork-barrel project wherea town gets money from the state government to renovate a vacantbuilding as a "high-tech incubator," as if it were merely lack ofthe right sort of office space that had till now prevented the townfrom becoming a startup hub. Not all the people who work at VC firms are partners.