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If Your Startup Looks Like This, Chances Are: You’re Doing It Wrong.

Dave Mclure, the Program Chair at Startonomics says that "Startonomics is about making the world of startups less random, less complicated, more measurable & more repeatable. Startonomics is about creating more...
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Tips to Build Your Startup Team

Megan starts off saying that,"The key to building a well-rounded startup team is establishing all of the important functional areas and then filling in the gaps." She provides key insights into building more...
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Why Silicon Valley Should Worry

Om Malik expounds forth about the short term memory problem of Silicon Valley (an old problem no doubt, remember?). He says that the signs are very foreboding and sombre. Things are not at all looking more...
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Do the Startup Companies Need Community Managers?

Marshall Kirkpatrick expounds on the idea that since founders and key startup people are too busy to pay enough attention to the community, startup companies will probably do well to have dedicated community more...
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The Story of Tesla’s Founders' Fight

Tesla Motors has been in the news for a lot of reasons. Some of it has been positively negative - the fight between the investor, founder Elon Musk, who it is now reported had put in about $55 Million more...
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iYomu: A Social Network for Old People, Expired

At one time, it was agreed upon by all (the pundits) that vertical social networks is the way to go and iYomu focused on it, winning some degree of eyeballs and visitors. Yet, it failed and Richard MacManus more...
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Diary of a Failed Startup

If your idea starts with "We're building a platform to..." and you don't have a billion dollars in capital, find a new idea. Now. more...
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Lessons Shared by Zoho Creator Pricing

Zoho is being frank and open in sharing what it calls its own strategic pricing bungle and is explaining what went into this decision making and what steps were taken that lead it to go off the success more...
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Changing Startup Culture: Ning, Twitter Viral VC Ventures

Donna Bogatin writes that of the Ning assumption that visions of fast-growing, highly scalable, multi-billion dollar viral (not so serendipitous) hits must be highly financed if the end-game of a lucrative more...
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Guess the 9 People You Meet at Y Combinator

Larry Chiang, the founder of duck9 writes about the 9 different types of people you will meet at Y Combinator and what you can really learn from each of them. It includes our favorite: DDSS stands for more...
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