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Fri Sep 10, 2010 Never Mind the Valley: Here's Madison Madison, Wisconsin has always been known as a progressive town - in part because it's home to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But over the last few years, the city has gained a reputation as an emerging technology startup hub in the Midwest. Earlier this year, Forbes Magazine named Madison the 7th most innovative city in the U.S., ranking... Continue Reading » The Startup Financing Dating Game: Courting Potential Investors A majority of the advice aimed at helping startups manage relationships with venture capitalists is tailored for when that startup is raising or has raised funding. Certainly a lot of the interaction between startups and investors takes place during and after financing rounds, but there is a lot entrepreneurs can be doing before they seek funding... Continue Reading » Network Launches to Help Entrepreneurs Find Co-founders While it's possible to go it alone and be a single-person founder of a startup, many people need - and prefer - to have a co-founder. As Graphic.ly CEO Micah Baldwin describes it, you want "a hacker and a hustler." But finding someone who has the right skills, the right personality, the right work style, the right vision isn't easy. In fact,... Continue Reading » Valuable Startup Advice Emerges from Debate Between Angels & VCs One of the big debates in the venture capital industry lately has been the growing argument between so-called "super angels" and traditional VCs - the former being prone to mention how they feel the latter "sucks." As one would expect, many voices in the industry have made themselves heard in the form of VC blog posts and passionate,... Continue Reading » Making Market Research Cheaper and Easier for Entrepreneurs Understanding your market is a crucial part of planning your startup. But traditional market research can be both expensive and time-consuming, taking weeks or even months to develop, execute and analyze and eating up dollars that many new companies just don't have. Ask Your Target Market is an online self-service market research platform that... Continue Reading » RWW SPONSORS Leaner Than Lean: Is Ultralight a New Class of Startups? There is a fascinating article online this morning from the San Francisco Chronicle's Tom Abate in which he profiles Raymond Lei, a 19-year-old Berkeley student and entrepreneur. While still in high school Lei founded ooShirts.com with just a computer and an idea. A few years and just a couple thousand dollars in capital later, Lei runs a successful 2.5 person team set to earn over $700,000 in... Continue Reading » Year One Labs Launches Startup Accelerator in Montreal When ReadWriteWeb profiled Montreal last month as part of our "Never Mind the Valley" series, it was clear that the city had a thriving entrepreneurial community. And today the Montreal startup scene gets stronger with the announcement of the launch of Year One Labs, a startup accelerator program. The program is founded by four entrepreneurs - Raymond Luk, Ben Yoskovitz, Ian Rae, and Alistair... Continue Reading » Investment in 3rd Party Twitter Startups Down 50%, Says Report Although the number of registered Twitter users has grown to over 145 million, a report released yesterday by investment research firm CB Insights notes that that popularity hasn't translated into investment in the Twitter ecosystem. According to its research, investment by venture capitalists and angel investors into pure play Twitter startups has dropped over 50% from June 2009 to May 2010. ... Continue Reading » Did Your Startup Get Work Done This Labor Day? In a post last week about how to measure the effectiveness of startup employees, we mentioned that perhaps the number of hours worked isn't the best metric. With that said, this weekend was Labor Day weekend in the U.S., one of the more popular get-out-of-town weekends of the entire calendar, but does that apply for entrepreneurs and startups? Certainly there were some die-hards out there that... Continue Reading » Using a Virtual Personal Assistant for Your Startup ReadWriteWeb Co-Editor Marshall Kirkpatrick recently extolled the virtues of Amazon's Mechanical Turk for "rocking conference blogging." He's not the only person who's seeing some real benefits from outsourcing small tasks to the service, as I've noticed a number of people talk about the ways in which they use - or could envision using - Mechanical Turk to help them. Ewan McIntosh, for example,... Continue Reading » StarCraft For Startups I recently had an urge to pick up an MMORPG again, but after checking on the profile for my favorite Everquest 2 character - clocking in at over 138 days played - it's probably best I not devote myself to the life of hardcore raiding at particular juncture. That being said, as a self-described gamer, I'm pretty sympathetic to any argument made that playing MMOs makes you a better person. And... Continue Reading »

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