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Startup America Partnership

Feld Thoughts

On Monday I was at the White House to help announce the Startup America Partnership. For an awesome description of Startup America, please read Aneesh Chopra’s (the United States CTO) post on TechCrunch titled Startup America: A Campaign To Celebrate, Inspire And Accelerate Entrepreneurship.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

It was adopted by the National Institutes of Health as I-Corps at NIH in 2014 and at the National Security Agency in 2015. Today if college students want to give back to their country, they think of Teach for America , the Peace Corps , or AmeriCorps or perhaps the US Digital Service or the GSA’s 18F. Stay tuned.

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Advice From a Successful Female Business Owner: “Don’t Wait Until You are at the Top of Your Game to Get Covered”

Women Entrepreneurs Can

13% were dissatisfied with corporate America. In 2015 Proje Inc. A captive insurance company is a real insurance company created by a business or its owners to primarily provide property and casualty insurance to affiliated businesses. According to the Annual Business Survey , in 2018, women-owned businesses reported nearly $1.8

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Entrepreneurs Bring Propriety Software to Influencer Marketing

Hearpreneur

We offer 3 turn-key products: Branded content: Marketers are given the opportunity to hire influencers solely to shoot or act as talent in branded content that will be used on their brand’s owned and operated channels. November 2013 – InstaElite launches first-ever influencer affiliate network for Instagram.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I wanted to be able to provide pet information along with cannabis and hemp products to help their pets live better lives, so in 2015 I started VETCBD. Armed with this knowledge, you’re able to operate a customer-centric business that never loses sight of its North Star: fixing customer pain points. Thanks to Tim Shu, VETCBD ! #2-

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Square IPO: Is Square A Good Payments Business?

Agile VC

Square loses money on every transaction (-23% gross margin in 1H 2015), and since the deal’s inception Square has incurred over $70M in cumulative losses on processing Starbucks transactions. Square grew revenue >170% YoY in 2013, then 54% YoY in 2014, and is on pace to grow about 32% YoY here in 2015. Per Merchant Unit Economics.

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