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Building A Team: What Can You Bring To The Table?

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By Jean Hsu (Engineer, Obvious) Discussions about hiring so often revolve around what you should look for in a candidate and how to evaluate their technical abilities and if they will fit in with the existing team.

The market is currently incredibly competitive in favor of engineers, so I’d like to turn the tables around and ask what companies can bring to the table in this relationship.

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Could Your Bootstrapped Startup Use A Few Good Moms?

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By Kerry Bowbliss & Sherry Lombardi (Co-Founders, Hulafrog) Last year, we launched Hulafrog, a network of hyperlocal websites for moms. Each one is the “go-to” guide to life with kids around town. Hulafrog was born, like many startups, out of necessity. As new moms, we were on the never-ending quest for enriching activities and fun events for our kids and yearned for a simple way to find them. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a single website with everything from language lessons and soccer camps to parades and puppet shows to kid friendly restaurants and museums?

There wasn’t. So we built one. The prototype

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What Startups And Where Venture Capitalists Have Funded In 2011

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By Grace Nasri (Managing Editor, FindTheBest) Venture capital funding hasn’t hit the peaks of early 2000 but is going strong, particularly in Silicon Valley and for software companies. Analysis of venture funding from a variety of data sources revealed some interesting facts about last quarter’s deal flow.

Last quarter, venture capital firms invested $6.95 billion into 876 deals, averaging $7.9 million per deal, with the vast majority of funding funneling out of Silicon Valley in the form of expansion and later-stage investments in the software and biotech industries.

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6waves-Lolapps Launches First Mobiles Game: Yeti Town

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By Annie Chang (Co-Founder & Head of UX, Lolapps) Last Tuesday, 6waves-Lolapps "quietly" launched its first two mobile games, Yeti Town and Splode. Both games are developed by Escalation Studios in Dallas. Splode is a relaxing musical game and Yeti Town is an adorable matching game. So much for "quiet".

Within less than 24 hours, Yeti Town reached the top spot in the iOS App Store's free section. Splode is currently the top Family Game in 12 countries. 6waves-Lolapps is headquartered in Hong Kong and our largest office is in San Francisco.

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A Venture Capitalist’s Take On 2011 Trends & What’s Next For 2012

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By Jalak Jobanputra (Director, Omidyar Network) As a venture capitalist, I am privy to innovations long before they become mainstream, one of the things I love about my job. But even more exciting is when I see inflection points of adoption -- which is why 2011 was a particularly exhilirating year for me. This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale.

Powered by cell phones and social networking platforms, we saw revolutions taking place, businesses being transformed

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The Product Managers: Women Who Have Shipped Products

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By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) At A Field Guide To Female Founders, Influencers & Deal Makers is a list of product managers:

"Behind every good product is a good product manager.

It has been said that there are no exceptions. And yet each path to product management is different. Hailing from user experience, engineering, strategy, and marketing, here are ten women who shipped the products you use every day."

Here are the women product managers

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How I Started Something Borrowed NY Without A Technical Co-Founder (And Why I Want One Now)

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By Brittany Haas (Co-Founder, Something Borrowed NY) It all started with four sisters. Being the youngest, I watched my older sisters struggle with buying a dress that cost them more than one month’s rent. Beyond the heartbreak of spending that much on one item, it can only be worn once, and you need to find space to store it in your 400 sq ft apartment.

Hence Something Borrowed NY was born. We wanted to rent designer bridal gowns from a store in NYC to brides like us; ones who loved high fashion, hated the price tag, and didn’t value the possession of a one-time wear item.

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Tech Trends To Watch For In 2012

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By Kaitlyn Dowling (Digital Strategist, Women Online) Amy Webb, head of Webbmedia Group, shared her thoughts on what will be 2012's tech trends with Nieman Journalism Lab.

From women in tech to better content curation and the privacy concerns that come along with advances in technology and information use, 2012 is bound to be a big year.

We’ve shared some of Webb’s trends below, but encourage you to check out her full list “Big data, mobile payments, and identity authentication will be big in 2012”.

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Am I The Female Zuckerberg? No, I’m The Next Busque.

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By Leah Busque (Founder, TaskRabbit) Editor's note: TaskRabbit Founder Leah Busque will be speaking at the PITCH Conference on February 14, 2012 in Mountain View, CA. Get your ticket now!

We’ve all been compared to someone at some point. It’s often a physical comparison -- "you look just like so and so!" -- but sometimes it’s a reflection of similar personality traits, mannerisms, or behavior. However, it’s not often that someone is compared to one of the most famous people in the world. But, that’s the situation I found myself in a few weeks ago.

The best way to sum up my reaction when I first saw my head on Mark Zuckerberg’s body in the December 2011 issue of San Francisco Magazine -- surprised. I’m confident

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The Zynga Method Of Market Testing (“Ghetto Testing”)

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By Ramit Sethi (Author, I Will Teach You To Be Rich) One of the things you learn in my course on the best ways to make money on the side is how to fail fast and test things rapidly.

Compare this to people who say things like, “Yeah… I need to get my website up… so in a few months, once that’s done, I’m gonna try to get some clients.”

You may not know this, but I keep a bag in my pocket to vomit in when I hear this. It comes in surprisingly handy.

One of the deadliest traps entrepreneurs fall into

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Are You Stuck In A Girls’ Club?

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By Whitney Johnson (Founding Partner, Rose Park Advisors) "There's a woman you have to meet," said a male CEO during a recent meeting.

"She sounds terrific. I love meeting interesting people. ...Any men you'd like me to meet?"

"Aren't you married?"

"Sure am... Happily."

We both chuckled. I then clarified, "In my experience, men have more power than women."

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The New Startup Scene: Silicon Strip To Silicon Mitten

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By Anneke Jong (Contributing Writer, The Daily Muse) It all started with a computer chip.

Coined 40 years ago, the term “Silicon Valley” originally referred to the silicon chip manufacturers that helped build the high-tech movement in the San Francisco Bay Area. The region has been a technology hot spot since, but today, it’s evolved from hardware giants into social technology and consumer internet, thanks to companies like Google and Facebook. “Silicon” is no longer literal, but a metonym for the entrepreneurial spirit that’s fueled the region’s growth for decades.

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Opportunity For Young Entrepreneurs: Apply For The K50

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By Samantha Smith (Director of Development & Partnerships, Kairos Society) There are two things I experience daily with the Kairos Society -- innovation by young ambitious leaders and diplomacy through entrepreneurship. Kairos is an international, student-run organization that unites top student entrepreneurs and thought leaders. Each of our fellows and our programming works to bridge the gaps between disciplines, cultures, and generations for the sake of innovation.

Our Global Fellows are ambitious, kind, and sharp. They work to mesh their passion with ideas that take business to a new level and provide value to consumers. Take Lauren Creedon, co-founder of Sports Loyalty

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The Financial Crisis: A Wake-Up Call On Boardroom Gender Diversity

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by Rebecca Knight (Contributor, Financial Times) With the recent financial crisis helping to push board accountability into the spotlight, Lucy P. Marcus, professor of leadership and governance at IE Business School in Madrid, is urging companies to be more open to non-traditional candidates for their boards.

She says, “It is easy to go with who you know, who’s in your club and who you went to school with. Intuitively, we all feel comfortable with people who are like us. But we need to look at new ways to find different people… When I see an organisation with a board that has a preponderance of people with similar -- if not identical -- profiles, it makes me wonder about the business as a whole.”

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Need A Last Minute Gift? There’s A Subscription For That

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By Brit Morin (Founder & CEO, Brit) Subscription services have been around for more than a century. Generations before us were the first to enjoy subscriptions to magazines, newspapers, and more. As a kid, I even remember being forced to go door-to-door to sell subscriptions for wrapping paper. (Side note: Who really needs a monthly subscription to wrapping paper?)

Only in the past several years has our friend, the Internet, disrupted the traditional subscription model of the media monoliths, forcing them to think about new ways to offer online subscriptions as well as free versions of their content.

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