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A Different Path To Startup Success: How To Avoid Taking Money And Losing Control

YoungUpstarts

I raised money and traded equity, but with my venture, I had to make one of the toughest decisions, to build it with some assistance of co-founders. Find the right co-founders. Having co-founders provides a strategy to avoid funding your start-up, with the help of investor’s money.

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The Impact of Community

Duct Tape Marketing

He is the co-founder of Boast.ai, where he leveraged the Community-Led Growth model to bootstrap the company. He is also the co-founder of Traction, a community empowering over 100k innovators through connections, content, and capital. He is the co-founder of Boast.ai This is John Jansen.

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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. He needs to bootstrap it to a certain level, and following the 1M/1M methodology would be a good start. You can register for the next roundtable here.

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4 Necessary Small Business Resources And The Creative Approach To Get Them

YoungUpstarts

by Natalie Gonzalez, co-founder and head of marketing and social media at Chatalog. Although stressful, we bootstrapped the company for as long as possible while having conversations with potential investors. Small businesses are the economic engine that drives the U.S. New survey data from Constant Contact® , Inc.

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5 Reasons Investors Should Keep Their Eyes On Omaha, Nebraska

YoungUpstarts

by Mark Hasebroock, Founder and Managing Partner, Dundee Venture Capital. West Coast incubators are known for being competitive rather than collaborative. The difficult application processes to be accepted into a prestigious incubator fosters a kind of zero-sum attitude, where one startup’s loss is another’s gain.

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3 Advantages to an Experiential Web Presence

Duct Tape Marketing

Yana Nirshberg is the Co-Founder, Managing Partner and Creative Director at ParadigmNEXT, Inc. We’re deeply rooted in the tech startup community in Chicago and abroad, and have great relationships with emerging seed funds, VC’s, startup founders, and collegiate entrepreneurs.

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New conference website, speakers, agenda

Startup Lessons Learned

Weve gone from total obscurity to something people are beginning to misunderstand and even co-opt. These case studies range in size and scope: from pre-product/market fit to already exited, bootstrapped to venture-backed, solo practitioner to large organization. Congratulations. Being misunderstood is a big step up from being ignored.