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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

Storage is what’s known as “highly fragmented,” meaning easier for a new entrant to get traction if it could design a better product / service / experience. But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses. But you should. Why wouldn’t you?

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10 Questions for Brooklyn's Innovation Community

This is going to be BIG.

There's no specific agenda or goal, other than to bring together all of the people that have an interest in this great community and its ability to incubate cutting edge and creative ideas. Honestly, it was a fair bit of hand waving and maybe a little smoke and mirrors--saying in 2005 that we had a ton of startup-ready tech talent.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. When I saw what BuddyTV is working on and how long they’ve been the market (since 2005) I realized that this has huge potential to help disrupt the television market.

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BloomNation: An Unconventional Startup Story

Up and Running

If you look in Los Angeles, you look in New York, you’re looking at different items that are local to those florists with their name and pictures,” says David. BloomNation won the New Ventures Challenge, and started attracting the interest of numerous investors.

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9 Tips for Raising Startup Funds on AngelList

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Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austin’s seed-stage incubator. Nobody cares that you got covered in TechCrunch , or that The New York Times blog picked up your press release. ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc. Don’t focus on press.

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16 Tips for Picking the Perfect Startup Name

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Cezary Pietrzak is a New York-based creative marketer and growth strategist. He currently runs marketing at tech incubator QLabs and previously co-founded travel site Wanderfly. Mashable’s 20 million unique visitors and 6 million social media followers have become one of the most engaged online news communities.

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6/16: What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption

David Teten

Mr. Black came to New York in 2005, founded SustainabiliTV.com, producers of ‘The Business Case for Sustainability’ and produced several important films in Darfur and Nepal. KeyWifi is the world first peer-to-peer wifi exchange platform; it launched in May this year at TEDxEast in New York.

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