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8 Keys To Real Innovation Outside of Silicon Valley

Startup Professionals Musings

He comes from a background in venture capital from inside and outside the Valley, as well as entrepreneurship work with startup efforts around the world. I second his list of top innovation challenges and strategies to capitalize on untapped global startup opportunities: Create new markets rather than disrupt existing ones.

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Does Your VC have an Investment Thesis, or a Hypothesis?

David Teten

of venture capital deals. Those companies have garnered only about 2% of all capital invested. But you must be doing real engineering of some kind. Foundry Group, investing primarily in “ Software and Internet ”, follows six major themes, e.g., Human Computer Interaction (HCI) or Distribution. 1) Industry funds.

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My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

Congratulations, class of 2020. In 2020, entering the real world means staying at home, sheltering in place. So what’s the YouTube or the Facebook of 2020? But for you, in 2020, when jobs are hard to come by, what does that mean? In other words, compared to you guys, we had it pretty sweet. Instagram Influencer.

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Evocalize Opens New Office In Austin, Texas To Support Growing Demand for Its Collaborative…

Austin Startup

Evocalize is actively hiring for the new location and has open positions in Sales, Client Success, and Engineering. Founded in 2012, Evocalize doubled in size in 2020, and is on track to double its headcount again in 2021. Founded in 2012, Evocalize doubled in size in 2020, and is on track to double its headcount again in 2021.

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Opportunities for startups in the creator economy

VC Cafe

I’ve also shared my insights with Techcrunch, in “ 5 creator economy VCs see startup opportunities in monetization, discovery and much more “ As venture capital investors, one question we think about a lot at Remagine Ventures is “where are the opportunities for startups in the Creator Economy?”

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

Mellie Price (@mellieprice) | Twitter Heather Brunner CEO WPEngine Heather Brunner is one of the most successful tech CEO’s in Austin’s history, recently raising $250 million in funding from Silver Lake for WP Engine, the leading digital experience platform built on Wordpress.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Dedicated To Steve Jobs, Reinforcing Mission To Restructure Capitalism

ReadWriteStart

She writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. And finally, we have defined 1M/1M as a framework for capitalism 2.0,