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Top Startup Winner: Balodana

The Startup Magazine

We curate and aggregate a collection of talented made-to-measure designer brands who showcase their garments in our integrated marketplace platform. Balodana provides store hosting and marketing as well as support services such as concierge customer service and style advice to ensure a superb customer experience.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight on Latin and Central America

ReadWriteStart

Entrepreneurs from Latin and Central America were given first priority to pitch their businesses at today's roundtable co-hosted by Innova Tiquicia and Startup Weekend Costa Rica. Next week, the 1M/1M roundtable will be co-hosted with TiE Midwest. With that, let's look at the two entrepreneurs who pitched today from Costa Rica.

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What Future for Accelerators?

Both Sides of the Table

Not just Y Combinator and TechStars but a host of other accelerators across the country. They have aggregated talent into similar locations to learn from each other and made it easier for high-profile mentors to meet many companies at once. With the success of Idealab in the 90’s every city was building out incubators.

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29 Seriously Inspiring Interviews For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

21, 1991: Even Oprah Winfrey’s detractors should give her credit for forging a career now worth billions after starting out as a less-than-popular local morning talk show host from a traumatic background. Oprah Winfrey at Academy of Achievement , Feb. Jane Chen at Social Capital Markets , Dec.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Launchpad (Free hosting and OpenSource). Fnord (resources hosting). Gatling (resources hosting). kHTTPd (resources hosting). Code Hosting and Version Control. Managed and cloud hosting.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

I’ve been hearing about the so-called Series A Crunch for at least six months, and in recent weeks, I’ve spoken with more than 20 venture capitalists, angel investors, incubator heads, lawyers, and other necessary cogs in the ecosystem trying to get some details about it. Those numbers are likely conservative. Source: BBC ]. -