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What’s FinTech, And What Does It Mean For Your Business?

YoungUpstarts

by Andriy Skoropad, co-founder & CEO at Perfectial. FinTech had started to grow popular soon after global financial crisis happened, fueled by public’s distrust of banks and incumbent legacy firms, and then exploded in 2015. But have you a clear understanding of what exactly does this word stand for? FinTech’s history.

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Five Questions with: Zach Sims, Codecademy CEO/Cofounder

Hunter Walker

Recently they’ve been pretty heads down on global expansion so I thought it would be fun to check in with Zach for Five Questions. Zach Sims: We started working together in January of 2011 after my cofounder Ryan and I saw the huge gap between education and employment.

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ExhibitMatch.com – Matching Trade Exhibitors With Vendors

YoungUpstarts

Founded in 2010, Las Vegas-based startup ExhibitMatch ( www.exhibitmatch.com ) hopes to solve that particular problem – it is a global online interactive bidding platform that matches trade show exhibitors with stand builders from around the world. ” Up to three vendors may respond to each RFP.

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Do You Have What It Takes To Be An Entrepreneur?

YoungUpstarts

Steven Raz, co-founder and managing partner of Cornerstone Search Group, LLC, believes successful entrepreneurs need the ability to “operate and make decisions with incomplete information.” EO is a dynamic global network of more than 9,500 business owners in 40 countries.

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A full day of Lean Startup Workshops on December 4, 2012

Startup Lessons Learned

This post was co-written by Eric Ries and Sarah Milstein, co-hosts of The Lean Startup Conference. In this workshop, Fraser, Founder/CEO of LUXr and Klein, Director of Product & UX at One Jackson will offer practical techniques for getting and using customer feedback.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community (Fall 2013 Edition)

Rob Go

Founder Dialogues : Eric Paley plays talk show host on this recurring fireside chat style event that has featured Boston’s BEST founders. OnStartups: One of the largest online startup communities founded by HubSpot founder Dharmesh Shah. Boston Hardware Startup Meetup – Meetup organized by the founders of BOLT.

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Entrepreneurs Should be Respected, Not Loved

Both Sides of the Table

Think of the decisions we face as countries globally. Take Jerry Yang, the co-founder of Yahoo! This pissed off application developers because it became harder to find apps. I think people with this affliction have a hard time being great leaders. They dither on decision-making. I never worked at Yahoo!