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Startup Communities: Creating A Great Entrepreneurial Ecosystem In Your City

Feld Thoughts

Pre Internet Bubble (1995 – 2000). TechStars Impact on New York. How Accelerators Are Different Than Incubators. Why Incubators Don’t Work. The table of contents, as of today, follows. The Boulder Entrepreneurial Community. Boulder As A Laboratory. Before the Internet (1970 to 1994). Non Zero Sum Game.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 24: Drew Silverstein and Craig Kanarick

Steve Blank

Joining me in SiriusXM’s studio in New York were: Drew Silverstein , co-founder and CEO of the music technology venture Amper Music. In 1995, he co-founded the digital services firm, Razorfish and grew it from a two-man startup to more than $250 million and 2,200 employees. Drew Silverstein. Craig Kanarick.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

online.wsj.com

Loading… New York. Craig Walker, co-founder and CEO of Firespotter Labs, a technology incubator, said it feels unnatural to bestow so much voting power on one executive. Netscape and Opsware, which he helped found, went public with single-class share structures in 1995 and 2001, respectively. Mozilla Firefox.

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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

Seeing Both Sides

The common approach is to incubate the business locally in Israel with a small development team, prove early product/market fit, and then build a sales and marketing organization abroad, usually in the U.S. From 1995–2010, the Israeli startup ecosystem was not focused on creating big companies. Those that have are gold.