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Why Your Next Startup Should Be In Insurance

YoungUpstarts

And then there’s New York-based Lemonade, the most recent insurtech startup to make its way into California. For instance, companies are beginning to provide insurance specifically for Airbnb hosts and Uber drivers. That level of flexibility and customization draws in millennials in a way that no other insurer has managed to pull off.

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How the COVID-Preneur Led to a Micro Business Renaissance

Austin Startup

photography and design) Polling the Customers ZenBusiness polled roughly 500 customers to look at a host of factors relating to their businesses. photography and design) Polling the Customers ZenBusiness polled roughly 500 customers to look at a host of factors relating to their businesses.

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Burning Platform: Supply Chains - the good, the bad and the ugly

deal architect

In the 59th episode of Burning Platform, we (again) host Bob Ferrari of Supply Chain Matters. We have a wide ranging conversation around supply chains - the challenges in the semiconductor sector, the chaos at the California ports, the labor.

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Austin: a magnet for talent and resources

Austin Startup

In a post-COVID environment more than ever, talent and resources are rapidly flowing into Austin from California, New York, and everywhere else. that is hosted by Xoogler.co, an ex-Google community with thousands of members around the world, to answer questions from an audience of top talent.

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Launchpad LA – More Details Revealed

Both Sides of the Table

When I kicked off Launchpad LA a year ago I had a few objectives: Create an ecosystem where all Southern California VC’s had the chance to work together more actively outside of the boards on which we mutually sit. We get participation from nearly every major VC firm in Southern California, which was magical. How’d we do?

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Accelerator Spotlight: Balletic Foods

View from Seed

She has previously co-founded the SVCMS group, an organization hosting the Cultured Meat Symposium and the Cultured Meat and Future Food Show. Before starting Balletic Foods, Anita was the Director of Outreach at a California-based startup building software for scientists and lab optimization.

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The Texas Startup Manifesto

Austin Startup

Capital Factory focuses on hosting community programming that educates and inspires entrepreneurs, programmers, designers, and community leaders. The next time we host it in Austin, we will invite venture capitalists from Houston. Capital Factory will host community events in Houston with Venture Capitalists from Austin.

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