VC Cafe

JUNE 20, 2011

With over 1,300 registrants, about 30 speakers and 20 startups from Latin America competing on a €100K Euros prize, it’s one of the biggest entrepreneurship events of the year. More and more incubators are popping up, students are participating in business plan competitions, and actively look to get involved with startups.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 20, 2017

In 2016, marijuana sales in North America grew by a massive 30 percent, and sales are projected to reach $20.2 It doesn’t matter if you’re starting your cannabis business in Washington, Colorado, or Maine; you should start by building authentic relationships with your local cannabis community.” billion by 2021.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Our community colleges are excellent as well, including the Alamo Colleges, Austin Community College, the Dallas College and the Lone Star Community College. From software and hardware design to advanced manufacturing, Texas is fertile ground for innovation, investment, business starts and smart job growth.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Our fundamental thesis is that people of color, women, communities of concentrated poverty, have immense talent to contribute to the technology industry," Jake explained to me. "In In addition, those humans, collectively, are the majority of America and they reside disproportionately in non-primary markets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

According to the latest Kaufman Startup Activity Index , entrepreneurs are making an unprecedented comeback in America, with data showing the largest year-over-year increase in two decades. Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere. Now they are back in every community, with the best even waving money at graduates.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

The search giant recently took over the prominent Binoculars building, designed by famed architect Frank Gehry , in Venice. Our vision for the school is to support the local ecosystem and our community, so this is fabulous," he says. Americas new business model: Sharing. That said a lot." Advertisement. Most Popular.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

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”. I suggest start by looking at the many programs offered by the Fortune 500’s startup networks.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Women Small Business Owners – America’s New job Creators [infographic] – [link]. ExcelerateLabs ranked in the top Startup Incubators by Forbes – [link].

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

Chile has decided that it wants to be an innovation hub in South America. Universities ; including the business, design and engineering schools in the Catholic University of Chile who are hard at work teaching and encouraging their students to think big and to start companies. Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

A warm intro from a friend or participating in events and communities that specifically frame “finding a co-founder” (not just “startup happy hour”), you will — and I did — have better results. They are building more functionality into the site, a great community resource! Community Service.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

Today if college students want to give back to their country they think of Teach for America , the Peace Corps , or Americorps or perhaps the US Digital Service or the GSA’s 18F. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Sign up here.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Create a profile for me in the Journal Community. Journal Community. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc., Craig Walker, co-founder and CEO of Firespotter Labs, a technology incubator, said it feels unnatural to bestow so much voting power on one executive.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

SXSW Panel: Attracting VC Investment Outside of Silicon Valley Carolyn Rodz (@carolynrodz) | Twitter Holly Gibson Founder Austin Women Who Code Holly loves the Austin tech community and serves it as the Founder of the Women Who Code Austin, a network of 2800+ women in tech.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

And for those in the coveted in-crowd, Silicon Valley, San Francisco and the greater tech community become a world of opportunity where you’re only limited by the quality of your idea and the caliber of your friends. Kapor is the original designer of Lotus 1-2-3 and former CEO of Lotus Development. View More » Apple iOS 4.2

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 8, 2018

Jobs in Corporate America also generally don’t allow for a lot of workplace flexibility—something that is especially attractive to women. The future of women entrepreneurs is bright indeed, thanks to technology that knows no boundaries between men and women and makes incubation of ideas possible. Photo Credit: Ketan Kapoor.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

He would know; he’s been backing tech start-ups since 1984, incubating at least one hen house full of millionaires.and probably a few empty ones. Take the Bank of America, once the largest bank in the world, whose signature office tower on California Street was briefly the tallest west of the Mississippi.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

And then also another investment that I’ve made through Greylock is Entrepreneur First, which is an incubator. And they’re like, well, all of these incubators all failed, why would we pick up the 70th one? What can the tech community do to help? What is it, what can you do? It happens a little bit more on the enterprise side.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Bank of America has predicted $20T to flow in ESG investing strategies in the next two decades. The classical economist response is that technological disruption also creates new jobs, e.g., “video game designer”. But in the longer run, the result is a dysfunctional society. For context, the entire S&P 500 is worth about $25.6

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