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10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

Steve Blank

The class is organized, led and delivered by Startup Weekend , the global non-profit that teaches entrepreneurs how to launch a startup in 54 hours. The program expands to all of Startup Weekend’s 350 member communities in 2013 where it will be offered up to five times a year in each city. 28 in more than 25 cities worldwide.

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A Guide to Conducting Business In France

The Startup Magazine

France is one of the world’s leading global powers, but what is it like to conduct business there? Also, as of 2013, for the workforce between the ages of 30 to 34, 44% are higher-education graduates. For those reasons, the largest incubator in the world – Halle Freyssinet – was set up in the country of France.

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Announcing Multicoin Capital

Austin Startup

We’ve been investing in cryptoassets since 2013. Fund Details We identify the most promising use cases for cryptoassets and within those use cases we vet the teams, projects, and communities. Our investment thesis is simple: Blockchains will impact trillions of dollars of economic activity across many industries globally.

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Bridging the gap between tech startups and the Fortune 500

David Teten

The most common ways in which the Fortune 500 are working with the startup community at scale is through corporate VC arms, contests, packages of benefits geared to startups, and accelerator programs. I worked with our intern team to look for the Fortune 500 companies making the strongest effort to reach out to the tech startup community.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

The sales helped them raise $30K and the attention of a startup incubator, which offered them training and another $20K in funding. One of the company’s smartest moves was introducing “Netflix Original” movies and TV shows, first launching House of Cards in 2013 to much success. Thanks to Keith Terrell, Backpacks Global ! #14-

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Our 7 favorite startups from the Wayra London 2013 demo day

The Next Web

The Telefonica-backed Wayra London incubator officially opened its doors last year, but its current intake of startups have only called it home for around seven months. Last night it was finally time for Wayra demoDay 2013 – a chance for the fledgling startups to draw interest and offers of cash from a crowd of more than 200 investors.

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What Future for Accelerators?

Both Sides of the Table

and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc. Throughout 2012 & 2013 we funded many companies and then pulled together a second fund. Jamie did, too!