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Entries for February, 2009

$35M Injected into Twitter

An estimated $35M has been injected into Twitter, the fast-growing microblogging service, in Twitter’s latest VC round.  The funding comes from Benchmark Capital and Institutional Venture Partners according to Biz Stone on the company’s blog.
According to Stone, Twitter’s active users have increased 900% over the past year.  Traffic through the APIs has been amazing and […]

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Bootstrap Don’t Borrow

At a recent Meet the Angels event in Atlanta, the panelists made sure entrepreneurs knew that angels “should be a last resort”. While this was shocking for the entrepreneurs, the panelist described working with Angels is “expensive and onerous” and suggest that if you can avoid it, you should. So what’s an entrepreneur […]

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Virtual Assistants: Get Friday Tryout

My partner at Felthos Foundry and I finally bit the bullet and hired a Virtual Assistant firm, Get Friday, this past month after reading about Tim Ferriss’ successes with VAs in The 4-Hour Workweek. We opted to try the service for a few months starting with the Basic-20 plan that includes 20 hours […]

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