How to save money running a startup (17 really good tips)

The HowTo team at Mahalo has been an amazing surprise effort. We didn't plan on making howto articles, but when we built various how to search pages we realized that many howto articles were, well, lacking. So, we started building select ones where
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The Faces and Voices of Google

Google is different, even on a list of distinctive companies. Here, more than a dozen describe what life is like at a place where no goal is too audacious, agility means more than power, and even cafeteria food represents an opportunity to change th
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How I started Seesmic and raised $6 million

I closed the initial funding of Seesmic in September 2007. The main investment came from Atomico's Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis (they invested $5.5 million on the $6 million).
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Paris Is No Silicon Valley -- Yet

The missing piece is finally falling into place: the development of a startup "working class" of smart techies and ambitious entrepreneurs. That's all Europe has ever really lacked. The money is there, and the U.S. has no lock on smart,
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The Long Tail Of Business Models

What does the "Media Business Model" mean? Most web apps will be monetized with some kind of media model. Don't think banner ads when I say that. Think of all the various ways that an audience that is paying attention to your service can
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Mittalic magic

Lakshmi Mittal built the world's biggest steel firm from scratch at internet speed
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Activities to do in the early stage of your venture

Don’t know whether you guys got DVT (i.e. deep vein thrombosis) while you were sitting reading the last post, but I certainly was diagnosed with carpal tunnel by the time I finished typing 4,873 words. This week, the length is going to be (a
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Steve Wozniak on Apple, Steve Jobs and the Value of a Good Prank

Steve Wozniak, or "Woz" as he is commonly called, is best known for co-founding Apple along with high school friend Steve Jobs. But Wozniak didn't set out to establish one of the world's most influential computer companies. His goal earl
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Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business

Over the past decade, however, a different sort of free has emerged. The new model is based not on cross-subsidies — the shifting of costs from one product to another — but on the fact that the cost of products themselves is falling fast
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The adventures of Marissa

The serious power and glam passions of Marissa Mayer, the gorgeously geeky Googler who’s generating a new kind of Silicon Valley notoriety.
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