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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

Both Sides of the Table

Not because they didn’t want to do Pay-per-click (they are huge buyers of SEM) but because they didn’t want other people to know what they paid for clicks! Don’t think about starting an incubator until you have real operating experience otherwise you don’t really have anything to offer startups.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

I am somewhat of an expert in this having created one of the first pioneering labs and incubators in the Internet era, from N AZ where the normal course of action was to prove lean ventures with our retirement only to see them copied by deeper pockets on the coasts when we went searching for capital.

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Twitter Link Roundup #215 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

1871 to launch incubator for female entrepreneurs – crowdspring.co/1gnuwsz. 4 Surprising SEM Stats Every E-Commerce Marketer Should Know | Search Engine Land – crowdspring.co/1kD9ZHH. Our Dangerous Obsession With The MVP | TechCrunch by Bill Aullet – crowdspring.co/P5QJpf. Why Big Teams Suck – crowdspring.co/1g1zYk1.

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How To Get Ready To Participate In An Acceleration Program

YoungUpstarts

Acceleration and incubation programs are on the rise and have helped start and scale many successful businesses over the past 10 years. Some accelerator programs or incubators accept bigger cohorts than others, so the following information may be different for accelerators with small cohorts. Be a hustler, even if you aren’t one.

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

www.reincubate.com

Ability to explain to the following technologies, standards and regulations to non-technical staff: AJAX, UNIX, RFC, W3C, HTTP, RDBMS, SCM, SEM, PBX, SEO, P3P, PCI-DSS, DPA, XP. Past contribution to one or more Open Source projects. Personal Entrepreneurial attitude. Ability to excel under pressure. © 1996 - 2010 Reincubate Limited.

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Crisis Shmisis: Q2 2010 Closes with 40 deals and more than $400 million raised in Israel (Deal Summary)

VC Cafe

T he second quarter of 2010 has come and gone and despite the depleting VC and incubator capital in Israel, the quarter has brought approximately 40 deals with over $400 million invested. Several of the rounds we not disclosed – perhaps the IVC report later this month will provide a bit more information.

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Crisis Shmisis: 40 deals, more than $400 Million raised in Q2 2010 in Israel (Deal Summary)

VC Cafe

T he second quarter of 2010 has come and gone and despite the depleting VC and incubator capital in Israel, the quarter has brought approximately 40 deals with over $400 million invested. Several of the rounds we not disclosed – perhaps the IVC report later this month will provide a bit more information.

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