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Accelerators Have Resources To KickStart Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

According to the International Business Innovation Association ( InBIA ), there are over 2,200 of these locations worldwide, and new online versions springing up all over the place, like Founders Space in Silicon Valley. I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors.

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7 Critical Resources For A Thriving Startup Community

Startup Professionals Musings

Apple has since capitalized on the top technical talent in Silicon Valley to stay ahead of the competition. Key sources of financial capital for any startup community must include friends and family, local angel investors, and venture capital access. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 08/07/2020.

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Strategy Roundtable: Try To Get At Least $2M Pre-Money In Seed Round Valuation

ReadWriteStart

But the right funding strategy for her is $900,000-$1 million, potentially from angel investors or small funds. I know Silicon Valley and the MBA types look down upon lifestyle businesses. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. We will work on that with her.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Menlo Park and The Silicon Valley Renaissance

ReadWriteStart

One theme seems to come up over and again, especially from geographies outside Silicon Valley: lack of a reliable pipeline of deals. Add to that the impact of their upcoming IPO - lots of angel investors and spin-off entrepreneurs are in the making. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant.

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Austinites represent at SXSW 2018

Austin Startup

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. March 12, 2018 11:00AM? March 12, 2018 12:30PM?—?1:30PM 1:30PM Hilton?—?Room March 13, 2018 9:30AM?—?10:30AM

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Rebuild Lives: Remote Work for Social Good

Transformify

Listening to Peter Thiel railing against the skyrocketing rents in the Silicon Valley , I couldn’t agree more. Lilia Stoyanov is the CEO and Angel Investor of Transformify. Market Entry Pack. However, remote work and technology definitely have the power to rebuild people’s lives for good.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

trillion in 2020. In 2019 and 2020, we saw hundreds of millions of dollars in non-dilutive funding go to Texas startups, most of which had never worked with the government before. The second wave of companies were mainly concentrated in Silicon Valley, and coincided with the rise of platforms (Google, Facebook, etc.)

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