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Tue Nov 9, 2010 ChubbyBrain Looks at the Demographics of ReadWriteWeb Readers' Startups Last week, we looked at some of the statistics gleaned from ChubbyBrain's new Funding Recommendation Engine. To recap, the recommendation engine helps entrepreneurs find the rest investor match, based on the latter's previous patterns. And ChubbyBrain released the demographics from early enrollees in the program, revealing some interesting... Continue Reading » Kauffman Foundation Sponsorship Gives Major Boost to Women 2.0's Founder Labs Women 2.0 announced this evening at its annual Pitch Night, that it has received sponsorship by the Kauffman Foundation to support its "Founder Labs," a pre-incubator program whose mission is to increase the number of female founders of technology startups. The sponsorship will double the reach of Women 2.0's pre-incubator program, enabling... Continue Reading » Startup Strategy Roundtable: Premium Lounge Sneak Preview At today's roundtable I offered a sneak preview into the One Million by One Million Premium Lounge we have just unveiled to a small group of core users. To get started, I suggest you take a look at three videos messages: To Entrepreneurs, To Investors, and To The Media. The premium lounge includes an online curriculum addressing the common... Continue Reading » Andreessen Horowitz Raises Another $650 Million to Invest in Startups Andreessen Horowitz has raised another $650 million for its investment fund, the firm announced yesterday. The firm is just shy of 18 months old, started in June of 2009 as a joint venture between Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen. The initial fund was $300 million, which the firm has used to make investments in a number of prominent companies,... Continue Reading » A Look at the Demographic Data for Who's Seeking Startup Funding A little less than a month ago, we reported on ChubbyBrain's new Funding Recommendation Engine, a service that will help entrepreneurs find suitable investors. The recommendation engine is based on the research from CB Insights and as such offers a "reverse due diligence," so that startups can glean insights about where best to aim their funding... Continue Reading » RWW SPONSORS 20 Recommended Quora Threads for Startups The Q&A site Quora has become an indispensable trove of knowledge and expertise when it comes to the tech industry. Ask a question and get an answer - that is, after all, what all Q&A sites offer. But Quora boasts active participation from entrepreneurs, engineers, investors, designers, journalists and so on, so that the quality of the responses are quite high. Want to know, for example, why... Continue Reading » Strategy Roundtable: Convert Potential Competitors to Partners At today's roundtable we saw three very nice businesses, each with pilot customers, and each working on real problems. At the end of the session, each left with specific action items. First up today was Antonio Lucena de Faria with ActionFlow from Portugal. Antonio has a portfolio of Web-based business process management applications for small businesses with 10-100 employees. Antonio has 100... Continue Reading » Excerpt from "Do More Faster" - Avoid Co-Founder Conflict by Dharmesh Shah Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup is the new book by David Cohen, founder and CEO of TechStars, and Brad Feld, managing director of Foundry Group. Contributors include dozens of TechStars mentors and founder alumni, including Dharmesh Shah the founder and CEO of HubSpot and the curator of the OnStartups blog and community. Below is his chapter, Avoid Co-Founder... Continue Reading » Big Data, Small Startups: One Angle On Turning Data Into Money Piles of data, piles of dough, right? Not so fast. Despite an increasingly urgent, broad range of needs around processing data juggernauts, we're seeing just as many startups go *poof* when it comes to turning Big Data into Big Money. Or Mini-Money, for that matter. Data-driven startups should know by now that out of the gate, transforming data into cold hard cash requires a lot more than just... Continue Reading » What Nigerian Universities Can do to Support Nigerian Online Startups One major problem in Nigeria is the lack of employment; many people go to school with the belief that it's all they need to succeed in life only to get out of school and stay at home for years looking for the right job. This can be improved, and the best way is for Nigerian universities to encourage startups. One major problem Nigerian students have is the lack of a entrepreneurial mindset.... Continue Reading » 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable: Bootstrapping Comes in Many Flavors At today's roundtable, we had some very interesting discussions on creative bootstrapping. I am always fascinated by how innovative entrepreneurs get when faced with resource crunches. First up today was Justin Beck with PerBlue, a mobile and social gaming company that makes the iPhone and Android game Parallel Kingdom that has been in the market for a couple of years. PerBlue develops and... Continue Reading »

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