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After Raising $6.7M For Startups And Winning SEC Approval, AngelList Opens Up Investment Platform To More Companies

techcrunch.com

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. And what AngelList is doing differs from the crowdfunding market, with the criteria for startup participation and the requirement to be an accredited investor. Enterprise. Smartphones. Digital Cameras.

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

plus it's faster and costs half as much ), it ranks first in the world for number of blogs per Internet user, and has a formidable market of Internet consumers who spent €5.5 LeWeb , Europe's largest (and the world's second largest) Internet conference is held in Paris every December. and Amazon.fr). It has infiltrated the U.K.,

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What Factors Helped VistaJet Succeed?

YoungUpstarts

Founded just over a decade ago by Thomas Flohr and focusing mainly on Europe at first, VistaJet is a fairly new company to join the private jet sector. This already sets them apart from competition and will help them further build on the current 70,000 plus flights made transporting over 165,000 passengers since 2004. Partnering Up.

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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

Both Sides of the Table

I’m not going to cover in this post the obvious post-show marketing tasks such as following up on all those business cards you grabbed, communicating with all those people who registered at your site and leveraging your new found fame to score venture capital. We were it in Europe: B2B. Market, market, market.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 28: Magdalena Yesil and Michael Mondavi

Steve Blank

She explained why: Magdalena : … you can have a fantastic idea, you can have a great team, you can have what you believe is a great market opportunity but you can die at the end so none of those are sufficient. In 2004, he launched Folio Fine Wine Partners with his wife Isabel and their children, Rob, Jr. Steve : Why? I always have.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 28: Magdalena Yesil and Michael Mondavi

Steve Blank

She explained why: Magdalena : … you can have a fantastic idea, you can have a great team, you can have what you believe is a great market opportunity but you can die at the end so none of those are sufficient. In 2004, he launched Folio Fine Wine Partners with his wife Isabel and their children, Rob, Jr. Steve : Why? I always have.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I had already been freelance writing for several years and decided to turn it into a business, creating content, ghostwriting, and teaching businesses to use storytelling and Cause Marketing through keynotes, trainings, and my books. Our business is based on content marketing and digital media, which has allowed for our success to flourish.