startupspotlight.co

Startup Spotlight

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Micro-startups pay what they want to rank higher in a curated discovery directory.

Listings are ordered by bid and receive a followed backlink and verified badge. The interface uses $10 bidding increments and required the leader to be beaten by $10. The observed first-place startup had paid $130.

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