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Why Your Next Startup Should Be In Insurance

YoungUpstarts

They require the most money to operate and have to fill out the most complicated forms to get licensed. There are start-ups operating in each of these three spaces, but there aren’t any preeminent industry disruptors in insurance – no Google, Uber or Airbnb – yet. She’s based in L.A.,

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

We wanted to show that if we could get teams to rapidly discover the real problems in the field using Lean methods, and only then articulate the requirements to solve them, defense acquisition programs could operate at speed and urgency and deliver timely and needed solutions. If you can’t see the Neurosmart slides, click here.

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How User Input Helped Course Selling Platform Kajabi Relaunch Page Builder

The Startup Magazine

Next, we had to figure out how we could deliver that while staying drop dead simple to operate. Yes, your investors are sometimes the best source of strategic advice and even operational direction, including efforts in improving customer-facing product features in your software development cycles. “We Investor Input?

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Corporation or LLC? Business Organizations for Tech Startups.

YoungUpstarts

While the standard is that ownership is determined based on each owner’s contribution to the LLC, the Articles of Organization or the company’s Operating Agreement can change this, so the amount any owner invests does not necessarily determine the member’s share in profits (or losses) of the company. Verdict : It’s a tie! Verdict : LLC.

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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

As an entrepreneur himself, founding and operating printed circuit board factories in Taiwan, my father was debating between two places to immigrate to and build his next new venture: Los Angeles (“The Valley” aka San Fernando Valley) and Santa Clara (“Silicon Valley”).

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Startup Feature: Security Expert Jay Hart talks Community Safety App MCALERT

The Startup Magazine

You no longer have to wait until the 5 o’clock news or social media posts that may or may not reach the right people, to get that picture to the public. It’s a standalone tool that facilitates communication within an organization, which is one of the most important aspects of any operation. Real Community Impact.

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ConnectYard Integrates Social Media Into School Communications

YoungUpstarts

While text messaging and social media tools like Facebook and Twitter have transformed the way that today’s students communicate, the problem is that most educational institutions haven’t quite kept up. Messages regarding campus events, parking, or registration can be sent easily to the entire community or to user-defined groups.