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Rocketstart's First Class of Startups Goes To Silicon Valley

Amsterdam-based Rockstart Accelerator, one of the many, many startup accelerators in Europe, is taking the first class of startups who’ve graduated from its six-month program stateside this month. The accelerator,…

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Box Launches Box Accelerator for Faster, Closer Transfer

Box has announced the launch of Box Accelerator, a global data transfer network that pushes the speed, security and scale of the Box service for business and enterprise users for…

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Umbrella People wins Startup Weekend Women's Edition

After 54 hours of working, planning, networking, meeting new people and generally having a good but exhausting time, Umbrella People has won the Startup Weekend Women’s Edition. Startup Weekend surges…

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What It's Like to Start a Startup Accelerator

Startup accelerators are popping up around the world at a rapid pace. Jed Christansen’s Seed-DB site links to over 120 but there are many more not listed there that service…

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13 Tech Trends to Adopt Before the Year's End

Though it’s incredibly valuable to be an early adopter of 2012′s tech trends, it won’t hurt your company to be right on time with everyone else who is just discovering…

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How To Evaluate Whether Or Not You Should Join A Startup

When interviewing for a job at a startup, you might focus on the questions you will be asked by the interviewer, but there are also a series of questions you…

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Canada Working on Visa for Startups

Canada plans to create a new class of visa for immigrant entrepreneurs, specifically with the goal of attracting those in the technology sector to come to the country and start…

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ThingsWeStart Lets You Visualize Kickstarter Projects on a Map

Have you ever wondered where most of the Kickstarter projects are based? Now you can get your geography nerd fix with ThingsWeStart, a handy interactive website map that lets you…

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Only 6% of Top Online Retailers Include a Facebook Login Button

Social Labs today released its findings regarding how online retailers implement Facebook’s Login Button. The company examined how the top 500 online retailers integrated the plugin as an alternative option…

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Google-Backed Pashash wins Startup World: Cape Town

The hunt of the world’s best technology startup continued in Cape Town thursday as eleven startup regional finalists battled to be crowned winner of Startup World: Cape Town. The judges…

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How to Price Your Freelance Services

Hands down, pricing your services as a freelancer is tough. So tough that no one has really mastered it. There isn’t really a secret formula to pricing your services just…

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30 Apps You Need to Run Your Business from Your iPad

This week, TIME Magazine editor-at-large Harry McCracken interviewed himself as a follow-up to his piece on how he had been using his iPad as his primary computer. During the interview…

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Entrepreneurs Share How to Excel in Emerging Markets

We asked these entrepreneurs: What are some of the challenges of operating in an emerging market, and how is your startup overcoming those challenges? Sticking to sustainable food “Our emerging…

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How to Give an Engaging Presentation

Giving a presentation is as much an art as it is a craft. And it’s becoming increasingly important in today’s world of startups that those who are going to pitch…

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Are Startup Founders Entrepreneurs or Poker Players?

In the U.S., small business (less than 250 employees) makes up nearly half the GDP and accounts for more than half the employment. But with the Great Recession, a number…