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10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

Steve Blank

A partnership of Startup Weekend , Startup America , TechStars and Udacity , Startup Weekend Next brings four weeks of amazing hands-on training learning to build your startup to cities around the world. More importantly, it makes no demands of you to stand and deliver your weekly customer development progress in front of your peers.

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

It’s not clear that there was big customer demand for some of these products yet entrepreneurs were egged on by VCs to “take the money&# and try and push the market. It seemed to be purely speculative. I was a victim of this kind of thinking. “If my competitors have raised $40 million then I need to in order to keep up.&#

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Endeavor Miami Takes on Scaleup Challenge

The Startup Magazine

Across the world, work spaces, maker spaces, incubators, and accelerators are opening, expanding, and making an impact on their communities, and beyond. Within the entrepreneurship ecosystem, “scaleup” challenges differ from startup challenges and demand unique solutions.

Miami 61
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Top 20 U.S. Tech Conferences Every Startup And SMB Should Check Out

YoungUpstarts

AppsWorld North America. Developer conference & exhibition: Apps World will be returning to North America in 2014 for two days of engagement and high level insight and discussion around one of the largest growing industries – mobile apps. South By Southwest™ Interactive.

Las Vegas 165
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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

socialmatchbox.com

Founders seem to take for granted exactly how in demand a good programmer is. Simultaneously, founders tend to take for granted how in demand bad programmers are too. There is a huge demand for programmers in America – good and bad. The old rules of supply and demand should apply in this case, but they don’t.

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Don’t Settle When You Decide Where to Settle

Austin Startup

If you are a qualified candidate for a prominent accelerator or incubator program in your field of interest, and, if you get accepted, you should go. But, it’s not a town to know and gain access to corporate America if that is a key component of your business model. It’s one way of de-risking the business.

Atlanta 48
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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. Who will step up the way that Steve Case (founder of AOL) has done with Startup America to promote this initiative to politicians, business leaders and the press.

Seattle 317