Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

As a business lawyer working with startups in technology and digital media every day, I’m fortunate to have a front-row seat as entrepreneurs create value out of thin air. What can we do on the public policy front to turn the United States into one giant Silicon Valley?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

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. Grab a group of friends and tour the latest and greatest of Austin’s startup community. or maybe just #GrumpyCat.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 13, 2011

Contestants basically upload a two-minute elevator pitch video to YouTube – they’ll get feedback from VenCorps ‘ panel of judges , as well as members of the startup community. Monthly winners walk away with the cash without any catch – no equity is expected.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

We just happen to also be unapologetically dedicated to advocate-building communication, the future of web technologies and conversion oriented design. Over time, our online local newspaper grew in readership and expanded to several other towns, to the point where we became the primary news source for the residents of our communities.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Some are major contributors to their startup communities. Take a small amount of equity (usually ~6%) and overall have terms that are favorable to entrepreneurs. Have a strong management team who are typically proven entrepreneurs. Since then, accelerators have appeared all over the world. Others are not.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2018

Meyers and Kate Pope Hodel, co-authors of “ Beyond Collisions: How to Build Your Entrepreneurial Infrastructure “ How does a community find funding to support building and encouraging an entrepreneurial infrastructure? In rural communities, the Department of Agriculture also can be a resource. by Maria E.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

Looking for Funds in All the Right Places: The Definitive Guide to Austin Capital By David Altounian and Stephen Straus OVERVIEW For entrepreneurs: We’ve compiled a definitive list of sources of capital in Austin to help focus your fundraising efforts.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 12, 2020

For instance, if you are looking to purchase a home and want a home equity loan it may be more difficult for you to secure a loan. They also require that those seeking a loan are individuals with self employment income that resided in the United States. If you are self employed you must be very diligent about your finances.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States. It’s like a dam has broken and now there is a flood of new entrepreneurs, investors, and big companies moving to Texas. Now the 9th largest economy in the world, it‘s clear that the rest of the world is waking up to the potential in Texas.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 4, 2012

The reality is that the United States is still a nation of small businesses. Alex, vice provost for Innovation & Economic Development at Weber State University in Utah and completing his first year of teaching entrepreneurship. of the ~6 million companies in the U.S.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

At today's session, therefore, all our entrepreneurs were pitching from Malaysia. Another entrepreneur from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Darren Panag with Convep Mobilogy , pitched AppsAsia, a mobile platform for business apps on various mobile devices such as iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and so on. ISA Innovation. A mistake, in my opinion.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2018

For the Central and Southern regions of the United States, the city is the crowned jewel of startup communities. Of these rounds, nearly every one was classified as a Series B or later-stage round, with the exception of a few debt and equity financing rounds. for funding amounts. Last year, nearly $1.2

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

This presentation will offer general tips for entrepreneurs, as well as specific information on how to get involved with SXSW Pitch (early application deadline is October 4). Thursday, October 4 also brings the ATX Startup Crawl , which is a tour of the latest and greatest of Austin’s startup community.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Venture Capitalists and Family Offices from around Texas who can syndicate deals or take direct investment University and entrepreneurial community leaders Local celebrity guests Press and media Grab your seat now and get an early-bird discount before March 31. Venture Capitalists and Family Offices from around the U.S. and around the world.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

As companies and cities wrestle with the future of work, future of cities, and future of tech made possible in a post-COVID future, the question is whether it also impacts — and presents an opportunity to address — one of the greatest problems of our time: the unequal distribution of economic opportunity across the United States.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

And of course, effectively all venture capitalists are going to require some equity for their investment. Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. I emphasize my focus here is organizations which are backing for-profit companies and do not take equity.

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Are you a first time entrepreneur and looking for angel funding for your startup? These are some of the best places to meet investors first hand and meet and connect with other entrepreneurs. 1) Funding Post –This website showcases entrepreneur’s to over 7,900 investors. It is more of a social networking for raising equity.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2014

An angel investor is an affluent individual who provides capital for a business start-up, usually in exchange for convertible debt or ownership equity. Many angels are entrepreneurs themselves, or executives and business or community leaders. How Angels Invest. Dan Whitaker, Angel from Corvallis, OR | Twitter | Linkedin.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 7, 2011

In addition, as long as investors can earn higher returns on T-notes, they will expect higher returns from alternative investments in equities and VC’s may follow suit for similar reasons and expect a higher IRR from their invest,ends in new ventures. Uncertainty may abate.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Like virtually the entire tech industry, I am particularly in favor of Startup Visa , which has the goal of stimulating our domestic startup community through acts to keep our foreign-born entrepreneurs in the United States. Following is a list of some of the policy initiatives I’ve working on, to various extents.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

The name of your company, Every Two Minutes, reflects that every two minutes in the United States, a person is sexually assaulted. Our goal when creating MySideKick was to account for every single kind of user in a campus community?—?from Founder CEO Erin Rose answered some questions about her company’s work. Don’t be in a rush.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Certainly the ‘High Frequency Trading’ community of dark pools and hedge funds that currently account for 70% of daily trading activity in the U.S. capital markets for listed equities have been in systemic decline since 1997. don’t like this report. And then there are those who look at the broken U.S.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2018

One of the criticisms of the technology industry and entrepreneurial community is that it lacks diversity and inclusion?—?by Capital Factory is a Certified B Corporation® whose mission is to be the center of gravity for entrepreneurs in Texas. Pass it down.” by focusing on products and platforms, it has forgotten about people.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. The scene is the siren song of the innovation community.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

In his white paper How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood , PEVCTECH.com founder David Teten explored how private equity and venture capital investors are trying to automate more of their job. However, 87% of our respondents don’t actively participate in any such community.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

Once I graduated from the naval academy in the United States Navy. And then from there, I was running a fitness company on the west coast by the name of 24 Hour Fitness, which was private equity backed and quite a bit of debt. And there are national programs, there are local programs, there are community-based programs.

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The Next Web

MAY 7, 2013

The once sleepy mountain town is about to be reinvigorated as a destination for the world’s most talented creators, artists, entrepreneurs, activists, philanthropists and musicians. They helped the health technology company Basis raise its Series A through the Summit community.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

As an entrepreneur, Sal has always believed in thinking long-term. I think any entrepreneur has this delusional optimism that surely the world will recognize how valuable this is," he says. Sal Khan : first cases of community spread. You’ve got to build equity value." People here started talking about things.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

What’s the way that you make sure that the stakeholders, whether they’re communities and hosts and all the other folks, and what are some of the things you do? In our case, society, we call the 900,000 communities we operate in. Communities, we want to strengthen the communities we’re serving.

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Pascal's View

OCTOBER 6, 2009

To be clear, this process began over eleven years ago and, in my view, it is the single most important issue for the venture capital community because it jeopardizes an entire generation of innovative American companies. In addition to revitalizing America’s slipping global competitiveness, restoring emerging company IPOs in the U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

I've known Brian Chesky, Co-Founder, CEO and Head of Community at Airbnb for a long time. So you want to be an entrepreneur, huh? So you wanted to be an entrepreneur, huh? Brian Chesky : I am Brian Chesky, co-founder, CEO, and head of community at Airbnb. 6:06) Resilience and adaptability in people and companies. (8:22)

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Designmantic Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2015

We measured our success not just by how much money we made, but by how much we contributed to the community. I think if you’re an entrepreneur, you’ve got to dream big and then dream bigger.”. Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. He initially worked as a truck driver for his own brand. “We

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

What’s the way that you make sure that the stakeholders, whether they’re communities and hosts and all the other folks, and what are some of the things you do? In our case, society, we call the 900,000 communities we operate in. Communities, we want to strengthen the communities we’re serving.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 3, 2017

What’s the number one city for startups in the United States? According to the most recent annual Kauffman Index report , which ranks “the rate of new entrepreneurs, the number of entrepreneurs who started their companies when unemployed, and the number of startups per capita,” it’s neither New York City nor Silicon Valley.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

For non-US citizens, often their right to stay and work in the United States is dependent on the job. This is the first citywide program in the US that allows a city (New York) to retain and attract foreign entrepreneurs by offering access to uncapped H1B visas. Founders’ determination. They burnt their ships behind them.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 31, 2012

This 19th-century businesswoman was the first female recipient of a patent in the United States. Walker is one of the most amazing women on this list, building a vast business empire with little more than sweat equity and a great idea. Mary Dixon Kies. billion in today’s dollars) at the time of her death. Business Hall of Fame.

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