Entrepreneurs, is your business investment ready? | Startups

Entrepreneurs, is your business investment ready? | Startups: "Find great people

You can’t do it all on your own. People make businesses...

You’ve heard all the clichés before, but they stand up. Through existing contacts and networking, find other great entrepreneurially-minded people to get involved. This can be as a founder or NED (non-executive director). NEDs are basically advisers who usually take a few share options for their time."

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Metrocare Ltd - Crowdcube | Crowdfunding business finance from angel investors and 'Armchair Dragons'

Metrocare Ltd - Crowdcube | Crowdfunding business finance from angel investors and 'Armchair Dragons': "Invest Now
Investment target:
£ 75,000
Equity offered: 15%
Progress
£ 1,200 invested so far
2% of target
5 investors so far - view investors
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Venture capital funds | Startups

Venture capital funds | Startups: "nce 1980, this international firm has invested at the earliest stages in technology and life-sciences companies. The firm has an office in Central London and has helped businesses such as Zoopla.co.uk and Seatwave.
www.atlasventure.com


Atomico
Skype-founder Niklas Zennstrom established this fund with Janus Friss in 2006. It looks to invest in early-stage and high growth technology companies, mainly in Europe. Previous investments include ChemistDirect.co.uk.
www.atomico.com"

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Venture capital funds | Startups

Venture capital funds | Startups: "Accel Partners
This global firm has over 25 years of company-building experience. With Facebook and Getjar on its books, interest lies in budding technology firms.
020 7170 1000
www.accel.com


Advent Ventures "

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Entrepreneurs, is your business investment ready? | Startups

Entrepreneurs, is your business investment ready? | Startups: "ootstrap it yourself

Find a way of financing the business yourself (between the founders) to get the business past a proof of principle stage. This is important for many reasons:

a) By self-funding, you are able to create real, tangible value in the business, so when you begin talking to outside investors you have a more valuable proposition. This helps your negotiating power and should result in you getting a much more positive equity-for-cash deal."

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English - Worldnews Network

English - Worldnews Network: "Death toll in Nigeria attack rises to 143
Newsday22 Jan 2012
-- The number of people killed by a coordinated attack by a radical Islamist sect in north Nigeria's largest city is at least 143, a hospital official said Saturday, representing the extremist group's deadliest assault since beginning its campaign of terror in 's most populous nation. Soldiers and."

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Custom Website Design & Automated Web Hosting. by Stephen Sanders - GoFundMe

Custom Website Design & Automated Web Hosting. by Stephen Sanders - GoFundMe:

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About | Chaidomains

About | Chaidomains: "The author and publisher of these affiliated websites had hoped to grow these pages in a specific direction.

Anyone with even the most basic familiarity with the overly broad category of; ”New Beginnings”, should at least have a rudimentary understanding of the concept that once an idea is planted into some level of physicality, the idea then begins to develop and take on an existence of its own."

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Download the Photo Dropper Flickr Wordpress Plugin

Download the Photo Dropper Flickr Wordpress Plugin: "Photo Dropper is a WordPress plugin that lets you add Flickr photos to your posts.

It searches for Creative Commons licensed photos – images that are licensed for shared use – and lets you drop them into your posts – right from your dashboard with just 1 click"

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Super Simple Dynamic Canonical Link Code | Bryan Hadaway's Web + Tech Blog

Super Simple Dynamic Canonical Link Code | Bryan Hadaway's Web + Tech Blog: "Canonical Link Script

The importance of the canonical link is primarily to clear up duplicate content issues. That is, to help search engines not make the mistake of confusing two different URLs that are actually the same page as two different pages.

It doesn’t help if you actually have duplicate content. Also, to give Google a clean representation and suggestion of what you want your URLs to look like and how you want Google to index and display them in search results."

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WordPress Backups « WordPress Codex

WordPress Backups « WordPress Codex: "How many backups should I keep? 
Excellent question. Most people make a backup and then just replace it every time. It saves space and is less to worry about. But what if that backup file is corrupted or lost? Then what? The general rule of thumb is to keep at least three backups and keep them in three different places or forms, like CD/DVDs, different hard drives, a thumbdrive, web disk, your e-mail account, etc.

My database backups are huge! Can I do anything about that? 
Possibly. Typically, anti-spam and statistics plugins can add large amounts of data and because they are constantly gathering information, the database can swell significantly. When backing up the database, such information is probably not important to keep. Do not mark those tables for backup when selecting them during the backup process"

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Using .htaccess file

Using .htaccess file: "Practical solutions concerning the use of the .htaccess file

Special tools for httpd.conf, .htaccess and .htgroup managing
ApacheConf

Htpasswd Generator

Apache Commander
Table of contents

What is .htaccess for?
.htaccess syntax

Forbidding access:

Forbidding all files
Allow access from a certain IP address
Forbid access from a certain IP address
Forbidding a group of files by mask
Forbidding a particular file"

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Changing File Permissions « WordPress Codex

Changing File Permissions « WordPress Codex: "user account that lets you FTP files back and forth to your server, but your server itself may run using a separate user, in a separate usergroup, such as dhapache or nobody. If WordPress is running as the FTP account, that account needs to have write access, i.e., be the owner of the files, or belong to a group that has write access. In the latter case, that would mean permissions are set more permissively than default (for example, 775 rather than 755 for folders, and 664 instead of 644)."

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The MacPorts Project -- Home

The MacPorts Project -- Home: "he MacPorts Project is an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system. To that end we provide the command-line driven MacPorts software package under a BSD License, and through it easy access to thousands of ports that greatly simplify the task of compiling and installing open-source software on your Mac.

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Social Tropism: SANCloud9-Social Advertising Network On Cloud 9: Google Doodle Honors 'Addams Family' Creator Charles Addams | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

Social Tropism: SANCloud9-Social Advertising Network On Cloud 9: Google Doodle Honors 'Addams Family' Creator Charles Addams | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: "SANCloud9-Social Advertising Network On Cloud 9: Google Doodle Honors 'Addams Family' Creator Charles Addams | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: "Google Doodle Honors 'Addams Family' Creator Charles Addams | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
Google Doodle Honors 'Addams Family' Creator Charles Addams | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: "curvaceous, dark-haired woman in a spidery black dress inside a dark, dilapidated Victorian house listening patiently to a vacuum salesman who was oblivious to the home's disrepair—cobwebs, bats, and broken balusters," according to a biography from Pennsylvania State University. "More cartoons about the vamp, soon christened as Morticia, and her ghoulish family followed."

The family truly came to life in 1964, when a producer asked Addams to turn his comics into a TV series. The Addams Famil"

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Update: Missing Marketer Todd Tweedy Found After #FindTodd Social Media Effort

Update: Missing Marketer Todd Tweedy Found After #FindTodd Social Media Effort: "Last night internet marketer Todd Tweedy posted an eerie public Facebook wall post that kicked off a social media campaign to locate him. He’s since been found since we first posted this story.

News of Tweedy being found was posted on Facebook:

Prayers answered. Todd is found and in medical care. Gabriela is on her way to him. Gabriela will share what she can when she can. A million thank yous for all your prayers/vibes/karma."

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Today's Brilliant Headline

No, You Can't Pick My Brain, It Costs Too Much"


Forbes.com/Sites/Work-In-Progress/No-You-Cant-pick-my-brain-it-costs-too-much/

SANCloud9-Social Advertising Network On Cloud 9: No, You Can't Pick My Brain. It Costs Too Much - Forbes

SANCloud9-Social Advertising Network On Cloud 9: No, You Can't Pick My Brain. It Costs Too Much - Forbes: "No, You Can't Pick My Brain. It Costs Too Much - Forbes: "I write blogs, articles and a newsletter. I host a radio show. I tweet, Facebook and share nuggets of advice almost daily. So what is it in all of that, that would make anyone think they can still have the right to “pick my brain”?

I can’t tell you how flattering it is to be approached by representatives from major companies seeking my wisdom and advice. It shows they are listening, and like what I have to say."
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Creative Licence » Blog Archive » The power of being (not) anonymous

Creative Licence » Blog Archive » The power of being (not) anonymous: "Vice Magazine caters to tragic youth across the world, serving up snarky fashion commentary, adventure journalism, creative profiling and at least for today, cuddly snow leopards. It used to be cool, but is rapidly becoming not so, thanks largely to my knowing about it and now putting down a form of words.

The comment streams under articles and their legendary Do’s & Don’t’s (caution, not always SFW) used to be a fine example of the internet at its callous, bigoted best. As users trolled each other for a reaction it almost always got offensive.

In the last few days, Vice has implemented a plugin that requires users to authenticate before they post a comment using facebook or another third party account."

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Create A Network « WordPress Codex

Create A Network « WordPress Codex: "The sites in a multisite network are separate, very like the separate blogs at WordPress.com. They are not interconnected like things in other kinds of networks (even though plugins can create various kinds of interconnections between the sites). If you plan on creating sites that are strongly interconnected, that share data, or share users, then a multisite network might not be the best solution."

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Todays Clouds: Who Is Stalking You On Facebook? Who Is Your Biggest Fan?

Todays Clouds: Who Is Stalking You On Facebook? Who Is Your Biggest Fan?: "Who Is Stalking You On Facebook? Who Is Your Biggest Fan?
Who Is Stalking You On Facebook? Who Is Your Biggest Fan?: " While to some, this may seem like an invasion, I like it when people try to sell me things, and I have no problem saying no. However, there is a far more insidious algorithm embedded in facebook. By a few refreshes and a few clicks, you can easily see who has most recently been looking at your facebook profile, down to a timeframe of 36 hours, as well as who your overall top stalkers are. Of course, they may not be exactly stalking you, but they are watching you."

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