Startup entrepreneurship – the rose-tinted spectacles version? [VIDEO]

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Coming up with the idea for a company can be easy, but starting and running it is far from the glamorous life which the Siliconites might have everyone believe.

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LocalUncle sets October release date for 2.0 version of iPhone app

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Destination question-and-answer startup LocalUncle is set to release their completed redesigned app in October, and we’ve got a sneak peak.

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What are the top five questions from startups entering the travel industry?

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As a neutral and independent standards body, we at OpenTravel get questions, and lots of them, about the travel industry.

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Click A Taxi goes for country coverage via app, opens up UK and Ireland

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There never seems to be a taxi when you need one so perhaps Click A Taxi, a mobile application launched fresh on to the UK and Ireland markets yesterday, can plug that gap

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Weep or laugh, then learn – brutal and hilarious spoof exposes cliches in startup world

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You are at another startup conference, innovation session, or simply listening to some wonderfully bright-eyed and bushy tailed entrepreneur…

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I love the smell of startups in the morning – travel and the making of Apocalypse Now

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Tnooz loves analogies. But here is a grim one: running a travel startup could be compared to the making of Apocalypse Now, the seminal 1979 film about the Vietnam war.

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When travel gets really social or new type of escorted tour?

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A new travel website, MissTravel.com, is attracting much press and may have finally solved the “social travel” issue — in its own way.

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Kayak, in its own estimation, sees IPO chances improving

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In March, Kayak pegged its own chances of executing an IPO at 85% — a dramatic upswing from the 50% likelihood it estimated in June 2011.

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Travel startups should go big or go home – oh really?

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Despite every startup claiming to be approaching a problem in a different way, you can actually divide them into four categories.

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How to not be dead soon: Life lessons for travel startups

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Earlier this year, my co-founders and I decided to apply for Techstars Boulder, ranked the top startup incubator in the US.

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