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5 Keys to Moving From Entrepreneur Thinking To Action

Startup Professionals Musings

Starting something new is risky, no matter how many experts have reviewed it, or how much money you have. Most people don’t remember that Bill Gates first software venture, called Traf-O-Data , was a dismal failure. You can’t win a race that you never start. Spend more time nurturing partners and outside influencers.

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5 Tools to Improve Your Idea Before You Write a Line of Code

ReadWriteStart

In my last post on ReadWriteStart, I talked about how, in many cases, it wasn't an advantage to build your start-up in stealth mode. As a continuation of that theme, I thought it would be interesting to explore five tools you can use to iterate and improve your startup idea before writing one line of code.

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Bitesize Tuesday: Tracx, Innovid, Kenshoo, uTest and More Investment Rounds [recap]

VC Cafe

uTest has established itself as the world’s largest marketplace for software testing services, with over 25,000 testers in over 160 countries. With verticals such as web, gaming, mobile and desktop software, utest has managed to tap into the vast market of companies that don’t have in-house QA teams.

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Discreetly Monitor Telegram Chats: Here’s How

The Startup Magazine

While Telegram markets itself as a secure messaging app focused on privacy, there are discreet ways to view Telegram chats with the help of monitoring software like TheOneSpy. TheOneSpy is a leading parental monitoring and employee monitoring software that allows you to monitor Telegram chats and messages without detection.

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Money Doesn’t Talk. Why Most Startups Aren’t Announcing Their Seed Financings

Hunter Walker

Not because they’re all operating in stealth or pre-product – in fact some already are earning $1m+ in revenue per annum. While I’m sure TechCrunch and other publications are at or near record traffic levels, the influence is more diffuse these days due to wide number of tech blogs and reach of personal/social media.

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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

Game streaming continues to grow in 2021 – According to StreamElements 2020 year in review , game streaming broke new records in 2020. Disclaimer: we have three portfolio companies in the consumer mobile space, still in stealth). billion hours were watched on Twitch in December 2020 alone (17B total in 2020, oor 83% growth YoY).

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Twitter Link Roundup #36 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Breaking Down And Reviewing Important Blog Design Elements – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Are there benefits for a startup to work in “stealth&# mode? Government releases open source code – [link].