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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

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Tracy DiNunzio isn’t your typical Silicon Valley startup founder. She did her first tech startup after the age of 30. And she didn’t start her company in Northern California. She leveraged herself and even sold many of her possessions to get started. She started her business from a personal need.

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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

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If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. The starting point of product IS marketing, which is what a lot of young entrepreneurs that never studied business don’t realize. The start of marketing is figuring out a market need and a way to solve that need better than anybody else.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding. Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. They also avoid Reg D.

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Mafia Sourcing – How Insider’s Game User Generated News

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I originally came from the entreprise software world (for 10 years) and before that I was in mobile & telecoms (8 years) so the last three years of immersing myself in consumer Internet, digital media & advertisings has been very eye opening. Things started to spread more virally. I never took my friend up on this offer.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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Richard De Silva started off as a journalist with the Washington Post after growing up in D.C. He then worked in consulting which gave him a broad base of business experience working with the newspaper, cable, and advertising industries. Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00 What gets you interested in a startup? (16:35-19:35).

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Perfect Market Unveils New Content Monetization Tool

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Altadena-based Perfect Market , the Idealab startup which develops software which helps traditional publishers monetize their archival and current content, said today that it has unveiled a new tool it is calling The Vault.

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Search Engine Ranking Can Make Or Break Your Business

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Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, despite low SEO rank). Thus I recommend that you stick with organic search, and use SEO to raise your ranking.

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