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Exodus to Facebook starts - More Google employees leave for Facebook

With the Facebook IPO eminent in near future, Google looses another key engineer to Facebook. more...
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Who Wants to Be a Facebook Millionaire?

Facebook is supposed to be the next big thing. Everybody is running to get the applications ( read widgets ) ready for the Facebook Platform. The article talks about the potential millionaires Facebook more...
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Seed funding vs Series A - things the startup founders must consider

When is it best to go for the seed funding instead of going around asking for $5 million from the VC's. Carl's points out the things startup founders must consider to decide what kind of funding is appropriate more...
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Paul Graham on Why you should move to a Startup Hub

Very through and insightful article by Paul Graham's about why you should move considering to a startup hub as opposed to being where ever you are. He goes in depth and builds a very strong case of moving more...
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Classmates.com - first social networking site heads towards IPO

Classmates, the first social networking site filled for IPO. Analysts and financial community will watch this IPO very carefully, as it will give an indication of what the market thinks of tech IPO's. more...
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How to select a Law Firm when you have a cool Startup idea

The title says it all. Whenever a startup founder has a cool idea they run to the lawyers to get legal protection. This article talks about how you should select a lawyer. Selecting a law firm is like more...
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Skype Co-Founder Defends Its Value

Niklas Zennstrom quit Skype last week as the CEO but was retained by eBay as a non-executive chariman. Niklas feels that they tried to monetize Skype a little too soon and must have waited a little bit. more...
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Facebook - Long Tail Rules

A really interesting post by Tim O'Reilly on the rise of Facebook as the application platform. As per this article, there are currently about 5000 applications for Facebook but 87% of the usage goes to more...
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Pownce - Lessons Learned building a social networking site with one web developer

This is a very good post by Leah Culver, the web developer for pownce where she shares her experience building Pownce, a social networking startup. Pownce uses Amazon S3 to host the files. more...
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How to Get a Job Like Mine

The American writer Kurt Vonnegut used to always title his talks "How to Get a Job Like Mine" and then proceed to talk about whatever he felt like. I'm in a bit of the opposite situation. I was told I more...
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