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How A Multi-Million Funded Startup Lost And A Scrappy Squatter Won

The darling of the LA startup scene shuts down on the same day that a scrappy startup founder reveals that he only spent $30 in two months while living at the AOL offices.

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Ryan Carson: “Developers Aren’t Monkeys In A Cage”

Treehouse founder and CEO Ryan Carson is angry about the commodification and appropriation of hacker culture for the benefit of business interests.

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Accelerator Scorecard Part II

Excelerate has been very successful in finding, funding and supporting young Chicago companies. But as successful as Excelerate has been on that front, there haven’t yet been any grand slam successes.

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Zuck Loses Billions As Facebook Shares Sink, But Does It Matter?

Facebook shared dipped below their IPO price on their second day of trading, Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth declined accordingly, but does this all really matter?

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How To Negotiate Like Instagram’s Kevin Systrom

Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom’s smart negotiations between Twitter and Facebook ultimately helped him demand top dollar for the sale of his company.

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PR And VCs Behaving Badly, or How And Why I Became A Shill For Zynga’s “Draw Something” On Japanese Television

Pics or it didn’t happen, right? Well… it happened. That’s a picture of me being interviewed by reporters from Japanese television station TV Asahi when I was in Tokyo a.

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MissTravel Doesn’t Do Background Checks: Proceed With Caution

MissTravel, a Las Vegas startup which advertises that “attractive people fly for free,” has been criticized for being eerily similar to an escort service. Although the company states that it does.

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Does Your Domain Name Really Matter?

When NutsOnline.com changed domain names to Nuts.com, organic search traffic dropped 70 percent. Do domain names even matter anymore?

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Where Are The Women On The 2012 Internet Hall Of Fame Inductee List?

The inaugural list of inductees for the Internet Hall of Fame includes only 3 women out of 33 people chosen.

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CEO Sunday: The Importance Of Differentiating Your Startup

A guest post by Blake Shipley, founder and CEO of CoupSmart, on the importance of differentiating your startup.

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