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10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

Steve Blank

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. The Big Idea – Incubators – Accelerators – and Something New. In the last decade startup incubators have become increasingly popular.

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A New Era For Entrepreneurs And Startups Has Begun

Startup Professionals Musings

in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion. Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere. Business incubators were all the rage before the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit). Now they are back in every community, with the best even waving money at graduates.

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10 Reasons For Joining The New Startup Wave Now

Startup Professionals Musings

275 IPOs were completed in 2014, topping the 2013 total of 222 by more than 23%. IPO proceeds also shattered 2013’s high-water mark of $55 billion, with an impressive $85 billion in proceeds. Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere. Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy.

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How can startups engage with Google?

VC Cafe

CapitalG (formerly Google Capital) – Started in 2013, CapitalG is Alpahbet’s growth stage venture fund backed by Google (larger ticket size). Google Campus – Google launched a number of Campuses, physical hubs for startups, offering a combination of workspace, community, startup support programs and events.

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A Guide to Conducting Business In France

The Startup Magazine

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. High-Quality Workforce. The hourly labor productivity in France, for example, ranks sixth (produces €45.6

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin started Bitwise in 2013 with the idea that the technology industry could be used to fix a city--in their case, Fresno, CA. Our fundamental thesis is that people of color, women, communities of concentrated poverty, have immense talent to contribute to the technology industry," Jake explained to me. "In

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10 Ways To Win In 2014: An Entrepreneurs’ Guide To A Successful Startup

YoungUpstarts

For current founders, in our hyper-pressurized worlds of being incubated, accelerated, and constantly switching modes between pitching and executing, how do we successfully navigate the labyrinth to success? In 2013 the funding landscape changed with the JOBS act. For those would-be entrepreneurs debating the startup leap?