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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

View from Seed

Network Effect B2B. Most often, when people talk about “network effects,” they’re referring to consumer-facing startups. Social networks become more valuable with more users; consumers’ discounts become larger when more people join the coupon; commerce marketplaces benefit from increasing liquidity, and so forth.

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There’s Something Abuzz With GoodBuzz

YoungUpstarts

Peer-To-Peer Referral Network. This would inspire him to start GoodBuzz in 2005, a free web-based peer-to-peer referral network that would allow artists, bands, associations, public organizations, event promoters and organizers to help promote each others’ events. – to promote their campaigns. The African Boy Who Could.

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As investor activity enjoys a resurgence, here are 10 breakthrough trends and companies to watch in 2025

The Startup Magazine

From the next generation of AI solutions, and revolutionary software engineering solutions to cost-saving consumer solutions, heres a list of 10 breakout innovation trends and companies to watch out for in 2025. The former solution isnt ideal for a number of reasons. Sim Local is helping to ease this challenge for consumers with eSIMs.

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Lead Developer to CTO at a Startup

SoCal CTO

In How to Level Up in Your Career as a Startup Software Engineer , Pete Soderling points out something that's a bit of a dirty secret in the world of startups: Many startup software engineers don’t take proactive steps to manage their careers. But that's most often not the case. You could even use LinkedIn.

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Top 5 Innovative Business Ideas For Civil Engineers

YoungUpstarts

Roads, streets, bridges, metro lines, and huge skyscrapers everything that we see from the business and corporate buildings to malls for entertainment, is just because of the marvels of civil engineering. This might look difficult right now, but if you have a good enough experience with construction, this will come naturally to you.

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The Intellectual Social Network

Start Up Blog

Quora is quickly becoming my preferred social network to ‘invest’ time in. Google – we are building the world’s 20th search engine at a time when most of the others have been abandoned as being commoditized money losers. I like to think of it as the Yahoo answers for people who are interested in the interesting.

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5 Communication Hacks For Startup Cofounders

YoungUpstarts

For example, Artem is an expert in software engineering, product development and all things tech. Meanwhile, my talents lie within business management and networking. In practice, we balance each other out, consult on all the big decisions and trust each other’s judgment on these respective roles 110 percent.

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