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Grant Applications Often Provide Early-Stage Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Acquiring seed-stage funding is admittedly tough, but a source that I find often overlooked is government grant funding, accessible in the U.S. Government grants start as small a few thousand dollars, but can provide a million dollars or more in capital to new ventures. The approval process is long and bureaucratic.

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Austinites represent at SXSW 2018

Austin Startup

March 9, 2018 3:30PM?—?4:30PM March 9, 2018 3:30PM?—?4:30PM March 9, 2018 3:30PM?—?4:30PM March 9, 2018 5:00PM?—?6:00PM March 9, 2018 5:00PM?—?6:00PM March 10, 2018 9:30AM?—?11:30AM 4:30PM JW Marriott?—?Salon as in pro wrestling?—?you’re you’re going to take some hits. 4:30PM Hilton?—?Salon 4:30PM Hilton?—?Salon

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Business Lessons Often Ignored In The Heat Of Passion

Startup Professionals Musings

As a startup advisor and angel investor, I tend to focus on the much longer list of ways your startup can fail, based on my own experience and inside knowledge from peers who you will never see highlighted on the Internet. Despite the technology, the fears of pedestrians and government regulations strangled the business.

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GEN New Zealand releases manifesto to encourage greater entrepreneurship

NZ Entrepreneur

The New Zealand chapter of the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN) wants to see local and central government politicians initiate policies to make entrepreneurship easier and more effective. Moskovitz believes that if entrepreneurs and government collaborate, the conditions to increase entrepreneurship will improve.

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7 Guidelines For Funding New Research & Development

Startup Professionals Musings

As an advisor to new business owners, and an occasional angel investor, I see new business proposals daily, many seeking investors to fund early research and development (R&D) of a new product idea. Look to academia and the government for basic research. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 01/04/2018.

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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

Political science, government service, and law — Yale has the #1 rated law school in the US and a long history of alumni serving in government. For example, Yale could launch a center focused on applying political science thinking to the governance of major internet businesses (e.g., Educate more alumni angel investors.

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Capital Factory Doubles Down on Houston

Austin Startup

In 2018 and 2019, we connected together all four cities with staff, programming and a Texas-wide mentor network. In 2018, we launched in Dallas with the help of The DEC, the Dallas Regional Chamber, UT Dallas, Accenture, Deloitte, Varidesk and many other partners. The money is flowing in Dallas too?—?our The Network Effect?—?applies

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