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Maps Are The New Social Network

While I am sure most people are going to think that the title of this post is cliche, I want to point out that that is not the case at all. A few years ago people started talking about mobile social...

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thus you are now considered a GAP 50 finalist

A few days back I received an email from the CIT Gap Fund folks that reads as follows: “Subject: ACTION Needed: CIT’s GAP 50 CIT is celebrating Virginia’s most promising entrepreneurs through CIT GAP...

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WeddingWire Raises $25 Million in Post Series A Funding

WeddingWire, a Bethesda, MD based growth stage startup serving the wedding industry announced today that they raised a $25 million investment from Spectrum Equity.  The company’s leadership team...

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BrightContext Raises $1.74 Million

Arlington, VA based BrightContext has just announced their raise of $1.74 Million in new funding.  The company is in the social television space and is providing a service that makes it easier for...

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Build Your Startup Community A Book At A Time

Right now I’m reading I’m feeling Lucky by Douglas Edwards. His book talks about how the team from Google hacked together one hell of a rack at Exodus back in the ’90′s and about the excitement that he...

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Visiting Houston & Dallas, Coworking Space Recommendations Wanted

I will be in Houston and Dallas next week and am looking for recommendations on coworking spaces.  If you know a great coffee house that is a good place to cowork I would love to hear about it. The...

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Social Matchbox Alum’s Kickstarter Project To Check Out

A few days ago I had a chance to catch up with Social Matchbox alum Chis Seline about a Kickstarter project for a game called Poker Smash.  The game is best described as poker meets Tetris. He and is...

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Should I Hire A Growth Hacker For My Startup?

The tectonic plates in mobile and web application development are shifting faster than ever these days.  Development used to be a about smart idea turned into project timeline with quality gates, and...

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Game Changers In Business and Technology

A few weeks ago I had lunch with another founder who has raised 20+ million for one startup and tens of millions for at least one other.  He is working on a new one now.  We were talking about...

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Free eBook Version of Steve Blanks The Four Steps To The Epiphany

I have recommended Steve Blank’s book, The Four Steps To The Epiphany, to a ton of startup founders building B2B products who have asked me what the #1 book that they should read is.  Today I found a...

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My Developer Conference Envy

In the last four years my world has shifted from being a founder at the helm of a services company with a side project that involves software development into that of a founder at the helm of a product...

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The Business of Business Websites

This is a post for all of you founders out there who want to throw up a nice looking website with minimal effort.  It is also the story of how I got into the business of helping founders and others to...

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What Programming Language Should I Learn Next to Land Great Jobs?

Earlier today, someone asked what language they should learn next – after PHP.  I’m a subject matter expert on this topic so I decided to share my thoughts on this with my readers. I would love to hear...

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How To Find A Co-Founder for My Startup

On a few different occasions, I have told people that one of the many reasons that I started SocialMatchbox was because I wanted to meet like minded people.  On different days this meant different...

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How to Interview Technical Job Candidates if You Are A Non-Technical Person

                  A non-technical person should stick to what they know, but not be afraid to trust their gut.  There are a lot of things they can use to evaluate a technical person.  Since this...

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Startup, Startup, Not-A-Startup

The definition of what a startup is and is not is a subject that I care a great deal about. I think that some folks decide to invest in creating a great workspace or a new product and because they are...

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Funding Facts & Fiction Event – This Looks Interesting

I noticed this event coming up on January 14th in Palo Alto and thought it might be interesting to those of you in the bay area for it.  It looks like a great panel. Mythbusters: Funding Facts &...

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An Open Sourced Startup Failure

Earlier today I had a chance to peruse the collection of documents associated with a recent startup failure (some information was redacted).  Budget data is included in the documents. Here is a link to...

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How To Fund and Actually Build Your Startup’s Minimum Viable Product

I feel a little sad every time I hear stories about software startup founders who have spent their life savings or wrecked their relationships in an effort to just get up to bat in the startup game.  I...

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Learn to Code Bootcamps and Hacker Academies

Last week I read an article on VentureBeat about California regulators trying to reign in coding bootcamps like Hack Reactor, General Assembly and the Hackbright Academy.  This is probably a move by...

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