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The most important component of a startup is the team. Not only do you need to hire the right people for the job, you also have to hire them at the right time. Polaris Venture Partners' Mike Hirshland wrote a great post entitled, How to Kill a Startup: Hire Executives instead of Entrepreneurs. Af...
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Best known for its movie stars, sun and surf, Los Angeles probably isn't the first place you'd think to breed technology. But when you consider the influence of investors like Jason Calacanis and Mark Suster, in addition to the fact that companies like Demand Media and Docstoc call Southern Cali...
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Today marks the official start to the 2010 Consumer Electronics Showcase in Las Vegas where all of the biggest electronics manufacturers show off their coolest and newest products. While CES is mainly a gadget show, entrepreneurs looking for the next big thing should pay close attention to the in...
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The smart phone is not a phone. It's a computer. It's like your desktop or laptop. It stores data. It connects to the Internet. It runs applications. It's a computer, not a phone.The real challenge for the enterprise is to shift its thinking about how it will move beyond the carriers and one day ...
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FluidApp is what's called a Single Site Browser and is a great way to pull key websites you use throughout the day out of your primary browser and onto your Mac dashboard as standalone applications. It's super easy for anyone to use. The service has a thriving community of users - I have 10 Flui...
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Not too long ago, personal finance tools like Quicken and Microsoft Money used to be bound to the desktop. Exchanging information with your banks used to be a hassle. Keeping track of credit card purchases was often a question of waiting for statements to arrive by mail and then entering data by ...
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Until now, all the news on the hyperlocal news site EveryBlock was compiled by the site's editors and algorithms. Today, EveryBlock launched a nifty new feature that allows its users to post stories to the site and notify their neighbors about interesting events in their neighborhoods. The new fe...
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It's too often that we read about a startup with an intriguing idea only to be completely turned off by the bland-looking design of their website. Granted, we don't all have the Jedi-like abilities it takes to create a snazzy logo or website, so when we need something designed, we outsource it to...
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Once upon a time, microblogging was all about simplicity. Today, even services like Posterous that started out as very simple and easy to use tools have begun to add more and more features. Microblogging, however, can't get much simpler than TXT.io. The service offers nothing more than a simple t...
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The 2010 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) gets into full swing today and already we're seeing a big trend emerging: web applications being ported to consumer electronics, from the technology inside cars to Web-enabled TVs. Yesterday we noted that online music service Pandora will be...
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Jive Software has acquired Filtrbox, a Boulder-based startup that monitors the social Web to help clients understand and better participate in online conversations.Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Jive sought a social media monitoring company to bring into its Social Business Software (SBS) p...
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In the past seven weeks, more than 2 million people have downloaded the beta for Microsoft Office 2010. That's a whopping 40,000 downloads per day. It's a record breaking pace, surpassing the beta release for Microsoft Office 2007. It begs the question: In the face of so many free options, why ar...
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Another popular service has made its way from the Apple App Store to the Android Market.GOGII's textPlus allows for unlimited and multiplayer chat/SMS features. textPlus allows for ad-supported free and unlimited messaging for Android users. Users can hold instant group text conversations with fr...
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In a world where emails, phone calls, texts, and Tweets constantly bombard us, it is getting harder and harder to manage the firehose of data and information being thrust our way. For young companies to succeed this environment, it is imparitive they become organized and efficient lest they fall...
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Every now and then, we come across cool apps that allow geeks to conveniently manage their musical tastes in a way that encourages more real-world fun.Last year, we met up with Livekick's founders in New York to talk about their very thorough site for helping web geeks get out to more shows and c...
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The controversial Proposition 8 same-sex marriage ban is back in California courts and this time around the trial proceedings will be broadcast on YouTube.The San Francisco Chronicle reports that a California judge ruled earlier today to broadcast the trial as allowed by a pilot program approved ...
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The only reason streaming web music hasn't completely killed all other forms of music distribution is the fact that it's not available when you're traveling across wireless networks - say, in a car. Well hold on to your hats and start canceling your satellite radio subscriptions, Pandora is takin...
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Social media is likely to be factored into your ad budget for the new year, but the problem is deciding which format best suits you. While highly controversial, tech influencers like Chris Pirillo and Robert Scoble are being paid to tweet periodic product endorsements. The question is: Are sponso...
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Facebook released an upgrade of its excellent iPhone app today and there were two very big changes. Push notifications will now notify you whenever people send you messages, tag you in a photo or comment on your messages - whether you're looking at your phone at the time or not. That is going t...
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AT&T has announced a new line of Android-based smartphones for 2010. Dell, HTC and Motorola will make the five new devices, which are scheduled to be released during the first half of 2010.Endgadget is predicting that AT&T will be using the Motorola Backflip, while the Mini 3i will be the most li...
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So you've got a fabulous idea for a startup? That's great, but before you get wide-eyed and start thinking about wireframes, venture capital and moving to San Francisco, get your feet wet first by beginning to build your community.Having a strong and loyal community behind you is an important ste...
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In the first generation of the social Web, the marketing groups and public relations teams would develop reports to provide metrics for a particular campaign. They were pretty much the sole users of "social media," technologies.That's a problem as far as WiseWindow is concerned. Social media is a...
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Copia, a new e-book platform, plans to take on the big players in the market by launching it's own e-book store and a set of touchscreen e-readers. Copia also wants to combine numerous social networking features with its e-book platform and plans to sell its services to OEM device manufacturers. ...
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Quora, the super stealthy startup now in private beta, is beginning to crack its doors open for press, and the ReadWriteWeb crew are impressed.It's a user-generated Q&A with real-time elements. It's addictive and fascinating, with similarities to apps such as Google Wave, Aardvark, FormSpring.me ...
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Check out this screencast of Quora, the new company built by Facebook's 1st CTO Adam D'Angelo. We've got invites coming! Here's more info too http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/fac
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MailBrowser wants to make Gmail and Google Apps more useful by offering a consolidated view of all your contacts and attachments in a browser sidebar. In this sidebar, you can quickly search for contacts, see the latest emails you received from a specific contact, add calendar events and attach n...
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Mozilla has made the first release candidate for Firefox 3.6 available for download this morning, following a recent announcement that further releases would be delayed.Firefox 3.6, codename "Namoroka", looks to improve startup time and general responsiveness, among other issues.SponsorFor those...
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Last year, SawHorse Media, a Twitter aggregator that pioneered the concept of lists, put together the Shorty Awards. This contest and ceremony was intended to "honor the best producers of short, real-time content."The first show was such a success that SawHorse is currently producing a second eve...
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Adam D'Angelo was a programming genius who knew Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in high school, became the young company's first CTO and has just begun to unveil his new startup company, Quora. Built by D'Angelo and a team of crack young engineers, Quora is a real-time enabled Q&A site. The co...
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So, this year, you've resolved to lose weight, take a class, learn a new language and buy a better mobile device. Good for you - but we all know how well most new year's resolutions go.If you want to strike while the iron is hot, we've found mySomeday, a new tool for solidifying, planning and exe...
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The best advice we can give you is to know your audience. You don't try to sell booze to pregnant women, you don't make God-jokes in Utah and you don't get a term sheet without tailoring your pitch. Investors are already blogging about what they want from potential portfolio companies, so if you'...
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