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Top 20 U.S. Tech Conferences Every Startup And SMB Should Check Out

YoungUpstarts

This three day conference has become the “must-attend” event for anyone who is active or new to the startup-community. Immerse yourself in the tech community at Techweek. AppsWorld North America. GigaOM Structure. Computing is everywhere! Are you up for the challenge? VentureBeat Mobile Summit. South By Southwest™ Interactive.

Las Vegas 165
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Helping Women And Minorities Raise Angel Capital

David Teten

In early 2012, my HBS Alumni Angels colleagues and I launched the Venture Capital Access Program (VCAP), an initiative to help women and minority-led businesses to raise capital from the Harvard alumni angel community. the America that is not just white men.). Sheila Marmon, CEO, Mirror Digital. Sheila Marmon, CEO, Mirror Digital.

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Don’t Settle When You Decide Where to Settle

Austin Startup

There were great careers on that path, but part of becoming an entrepreneur and controlling my own geographic destiny not only was easiness on my family but the ability to accumulate a lifetime of service to my alma mater and other community affiliations. It’s not always easy to “break in” to a new community.

Atlanta 48
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Out of the Crisis #2: Mark Cuban on putting people first, the Dallas Mavericks, and what we'll want on the other side

Startup Lessons Learned

They're going to look to see what impact you had in your community. 11:59) Giving people trust and autonomy and opening lines of communication as a leader, and how Mark's leadership has evolved. (14:16) 22:13) The way companies treat employees and customers and impact their communities now will them for decades to come.

Dallas 68
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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. I’m now researching non-dilutive funding for Action Tank , a startup I’m gestating to “Make America Functional Again”. Requires Columbia affiliation. Columbia Business School Tamer Fund for Social Ventures.

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VC Victor Hwang: How To Create The Next Silicon Valley

ReadWriteStart

It’s easy to throw more money at problems, whether that means funding R&D, investing in startup incubators or accelerators, tax incentives or building campuses. It’s far harder to create communities of people driven by values like trust, fairness, dreaming big and willingness to risk and fail. Hwang: Hardware is easy.