Up and Running

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Getting venture capital funding to launch your business is incredibly difficult. In fact, fewer than 1 percent of businesses that start every year get venture funding. So, if you’re seeking venture capital funding, you’re going to want to know as much as possible about the industry and about what VC firms look for.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2020

Crowdfunding is just the latest alternative for assistance to entrepreneurs who need help, supplementing the existing alternatives of loans, grants, angel investors, venture capital and many others. Utilize business content curators and coaches. Entrepreneurs should be monitoring online curator platforms and blogs.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2011

You’ll find content categorized into different topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2012

These conferences are not only a great way to raise your startup’s profile, they also serve as valuable networking opportunities within the tech/VC community. ff Venture Capital recently hosted an event in its offices to feature two of its portfolio companies: MovableInk and Parse.ly. Photo credit: Zitona.

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2013

These conferences are not only a great way to raise your startup’s profile, they also serve as valuable networking opportunities within the tech/VC community. ff Venture Capital recently hosted an event in its offices to feature two of its portfolio companies: MovableInk and Parse.ly. Enter into personal competitions.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

2019 Capital Factory VIP Lounge during SXSW Interactive The 16th floor kitchen and coworking area will be buzzing with even more energy and excitement than normal. Grab a group of friends and tour the latest and greatest of Austin’s startup community. Yet female founders received only 2% of venture capital dollars in 2017.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 14, 2013

Cheaper rents could make it a great place for the creative community and there''s no reason why it shouldn''t become as popular a destination for out of town events the same way that Austin has. What was harder to figure out how to do--and something no one ever really thinks about on the economic development side, is community.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 17, 2013

When I was in college, at Fordham''s scenic Rose Hill campus in the Bronx, I deeply rooted into my community. Being intensely involved in community life there made the campus seem small and familiar. Passing on that experience has been at the core of what I do in the NYC tech community for the better part of the last decade.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Let’s start with a short definition: [the creator economy] is defined as the class of businesses built by over 50 million independent content creators, curators, and community builders including social media influencers, bloggers, and videographers, plus the software and finance tools designed to help them with growth and monetization.

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2013

These conferences are not only a great way to raise your startup’s profile, they also serve as valuable networking opportunities within the tech/VC community. ff Venture Capital recently hosted an event in its offices to feature two of its portfolio companies: MovableInk and Parse.ly. Enter into personal competitions.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 8, 2014

Look across virtually any industry and you’ll see great examples where traditional spaces are being disrupted by software, access to data, and massive online communities. Thus, it should come as no surprise that we are now seeing Venture Capital being disrupted by these forces as well. Today, the boom of information (i.e.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2018

Crowdfunding is just the latest alternative for assistance to entrepreneurs who need help, supplementing the existing alternatives of loans, grants, angel investors, venture capital and many others. Utilize business content curators and coaches. Entrepreneurs should be monitoring online curator platforms and blogs.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Teach Department of Defense /Intelligence Community sponsors how to deliver problems to these schools and how to get the most out of student teams. The CIA set up In-Q-Tel to be the venture capital arm of the intelligence community to speed the insertion of technologies. Train the Trainers. Lessons Learned.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 28, 2017

Taking Care of Your Community written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Community building is a big deal – so are a lot of things, but there’s no question that building and taking care of a large community of folks that trust you is a great way to build a business. The Key to Success?

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Over the course of the last year, I've seen a community grow into a thriving resource for all its participants. It's a high quality, experienced, and focused community of participants who have leveraged each other's knowledge to get a ton of value out of it. There is a lot of careful seeding, and hands-on curation going on.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Contributors include dozens of TechStars mentors and founder alumni, including Dharmesh Shah the founder and CEO of HubSpot and the curator of the OnStartups blog and community. Raise venture capital funding? Below is his chapter, Avoid Co-Founder Conflict. Find out where Cohen and Feld's book tour will stop next here.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

It’s stocked with free food, drinks and wifi but the real reason you want to be there is because we’ve curated all of the top entrepreneurs, investors, and innovators at SXSW and invited them to stop by. A Venture Capital Outlook on Industry 4.0 Are you new to the Austin Startup Community? Thinking about moving here?

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The idea of working together in communities to share best practices around creation has inspired companies that get people doing stuff like Makerbot and Windowfarms. People used to ask you where you are present--where you can be found--and it was all about what you consumed, curated and liked. Need to find a collaborator? Find me on."

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 5, 2010

An Insider’s Guide to Venture Capital Financing – [link]. Why Content Curation Is Here to Stay – [link]. The Life of a Startup Founder’s Significant Other – [link]. Is Your Service Business Too Squishy? – [link]. The Role of Education in Entrepreneurship – [link]. Highly recommended – [link].

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2016

Crowdfunding is just the latest alternative for assistance to entrepreneurs who need help, supplementing the existing alternatives of loans, grants, angel investors, venture capital and many others. Utilize business content curators and coaches. Entrepreneurs should be monitoring online curator platforms and blogs.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

I have been able to curate a list of free online courses, videos, webinars, and other useful resources that should give you the confidence boost to get out there and get started. If that’s the case, I highly recommend participating in events like Google’s Startup Weekend (though it’s much more tech-focused) and other community-related events.

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. PEVCTech.com , a community for investors and technologists responsible for investing in private companies, primarily at private equity and venture capital funds. This is why I do speak regularly at various conferences.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2015

Crowdfunding is just the latest alternative for assistance to entrepreneurs who need help, supplementing the existing alternatives of loans, grants, angel investors, venture capital and many others. Utilize business content curators and coaches. Entrepreneurs should be monitoring online curator platforms and blogs.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Teach Department of Defense /Intelligence Community sponsors how to deliver problems to these schools and how to get the most out of student teams. The CIA set up In-Q-Tel to be the venture capital arm of the intelligence community to speed the insertion of technologies. Train the Trainers. Lessons Learned.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2014

Resources abound online, but the noise-to-signal ratio is high, and the content needs to be verified and curated. There’s quite a range of information sources from curated reports to aggregated data. So, if you want to build good karma, answer a few questions where you bring expertise and help this community grow.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2012

But Chicago-based startup MentorMob ( www.mentormob.com ) wants to change that – the free, community-based collaborative service aims to aggregate and organize the best online educational content on any topic, so it’s easier to find. The company is currently seeking first-round venture capital and institutional funding.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Women Rising: Microfinance institutions have known for years that women have higher repayment rates than men and that women are more likely to invest the borrowed capital back into their families and local communities. Nothing seems impossible anymore.

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thebarefootvc

MAY 20, 2013

Users craved a “safe” place where they could belong to several communities based on interests and Tumblr provided that. Entrepreneurship NYC Startups Technology Venture Capital media technology tumblr yahoo' In fact, many have attributed Tumblr’s fast growth partly to Facebook’s increasingly mass appeal.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

The other change is that universities, instead of being passive, have become active in building an entrepreneurial community. I want to make my community, country or world a better place, while solving some of the toughest problems.” which we call problem curation. “Is They’ve become outward-facing universities.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 31, 2010

RSVP: [link] 5PM NY Tech Meetup Student Mingle The NYTM Student Group's mission is to encourage the involvement of students and student leaders in the New York City tech community and thereby better educate and prepare tomorrow's entrepreneurs. Bootstrapping a community from zero users. What works and what doesn't. RSVP: [link].

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 18, 2013

Many of the video curation/discovery startups were based on two hypotheses: 1. But just a collection of embedded thematic videos isn’t enough – the real fan wants content, community, editorial. Horizontal content needs to solve search not just browse or curation. But don’t take venture capital.

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Venture Chronicles

JANUARY 25, 2011

Q&A communities have become grown in popularity in recent years with consumer and business offerings being developed at a blistering pace and established players emerging with their own offerings. I am most interested in the generalized Q&A communities, not the expert networks. Search and Q&A are Different.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

Let’s explore some progressive interaction models that go beyond touch and into movement, infrared, wearable computing, sound and ambient data to really give us an idea of what our immersive interactive future may hold and how we might curate that future now. 12:30 PM: Who Needs Venture Capital? Gary Vee knows wine.

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Hippoland

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

This means that the attendees will be highly curated. About Pocket (from the SoGal website): Pocket Sun founded SoGal, one of world’s largest communities of diverse entrepreneurs with 10 chapters worldwide. These interviews will be done online but will be highly interactive. The Straits Times, Harper’s BAZAAR, etc.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 25, 2017

See Also: Venture Capital Funding: A Curated List of Our Best Resources. Securing startup capital: A brutal experience that drags on and on. And, by Friday, you could be pitching an investment club that wants to create jobs in their local community. See Also: 17 Venture Capital Blogs You Should Be Reading.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 29, 2010

All of the current sites revolve around a centralized curation and sales function. Community is one solution I had in mind. A good example is the Etsy seller community which does a lot for new sellers to help them get up and running—sharing best practices about taking photos, copy, pricing, etc.

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