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10 Companies Want To Show You The Money

YoungUpstarts

Lyft requires you to be at least 23 years old and have your own four-door car (2000 or newer) in good working condition. Currently available in Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Spain, Norway, Germany, Portugal, Netherlands, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the USA.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it. I have been thinking a lot about what a new version of this test would look like, given what Ive seen work and not work in startups. but I have not seen that dysfunction in any of the startups I advise, so hopefully its behind us. Its incredibly hard to do.

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 8, 2009 What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups? Beyond just those who will be hearing about the lean startup for the first time, Im expecting to shake a lot of hands and have a lot of interesting side conversations. And what hurdles could be eliminated?

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How to Build a Global Center of Innovation Excellence in Salzburg, Austria

Pascal's View

How can the Salzburg community come together to nurture ideas into startups and see these startups grow into globally relevant companies? Ideally, innovative startups should be built on ideas that face little or no competition—and this is one of Peter Thiel’s key messages to entrepreneurs who want their startups to be “born global”.

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Details of Upfront Ventures New $400 Million Fund

Both Sides of the Table

But there is clear evidence that the overwhelming majority of startups will raise their first dollars from LA-based venture capital funds. Boston, Finland and Paris). We hope that having a larger fund ourself will mean that fewer need to take the trip even as their capital needs grow. Yet clearly we must do more.