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		<title>7 Business Startup Ideas</title>
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		<title>Using Facebook to come up with start-up ideas!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have always thought about soliciting ideas from friends about their problems with the current application they are using or frustration with certain products.This page on facebook has a lot of startup ideas.People share their frustrations and problems.The solution could be your startup.Take a look,you may stumble upon an interesting idea.You can decide to create [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thomasoppong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7890356&amp;post=180&amp;subd=thomasoppong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 Cleantech Startups With  Support from Intel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intel Capital, Intel&#8217;s global investment organization, has invested a total approximately $10 million in five clean tech startups. Intel&#8217;s new sub-group, dubbed the Energy Systems Group will focus on the development of smart building, smart homes and smart grids. The following startups received support: *CPower (New York). The company delivers targeted energy management services and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thomasoppong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7890356&amp;post=170&amp;subd=thomasoppong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top 12 Tech Startup Incubators</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An incubator is a new type of educational institution. It teaches hands-on &#8220;entrepreneurial development&#8221; to the business owner in a very precise manner because the instructional method is not generalized. It teaches only what the business owner doesn&#8217;t know or can&#8217;t do. Since each business owner and each business is different, the methodology is designed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thomasoppong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7890356&amp;post=166&amp;subd=thomasoppong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google is working on building a web OS for notebooks.A lot expects have predicted the emergence of a web OS in a year or two. Launched last week, Glide Engage is a stream front-end for the Glide , a Web OS which offers a suite of integrated Web Apps including docs, spreadsheets, photo and music [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thomasoppong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7890356&amp;post=163&amp;subd=thomasoppong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>7 Mobile Video Applications</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The success of youtube has been phenomenal even though revenue generation has not been so good as the user traction. A lot of other startups are replicating the same model for smartphone users. Video streaming is better and has always been on Phones. Software Entrepreneurs are taking advantage of this and have tried to give [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thomasoppong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7890356&amp;post=155&amp;subd=thomasoppong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>10 Startup Ideas Funded by DreamIt Ventures</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philadelphia-based early-stage investment outfit DreamIt Ventures is in the business of finding, funding, and accelerating great startups. DreamIt, now in its second year, sees startup founders through the summer with seed funding and advisement, allowing them to demo their wares for media and investors mid-August. Notehall allows college students to buy and sell lecture notes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thomasoppong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7890356&amp;post=151&amp;subd=thomasoppong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trends, Ideas and Opportunities for a startup</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last three posts I have deliberate focused on startup ideas because I think the world deserves to know about the ideas I have been thinking about. I believe that an idea has no value if is not being implemented or has not been implemented. As I write this post, I am going through [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thomasoppong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7890356&amp;post=145&amp;subd=thomasoppong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Startup Ideas from 2 Startup Industries</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of startups exist as a business with contributions from the public to gather content. Startups like Digg , Reddit , stumbleUpon and Wikipedia have been able to create something useful that attracted users who ended up providing content for these sites. Others have created platforms that allow innovation and creativity by leveraging on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thomasoppong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7890356&amp;post=142&amp;subd=thomasoppong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Consumer Startup Ideas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 22:38:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have always believed that succeeding with a consumer application in the internet is very difficult.Even though i have explored a coupled of them I still think consumer applications takes time to get to main stream.But If the idea is mission critical and solves the pain everybody has, you are likey to make it mainstream.There [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thomasoppong.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7890356&amp;post=139&amp;subd=thomasoppong&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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