Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Maybe the founders are the micro VCs we have been waiting for? Funds and people are looking to take a set multiple on SaaS companies and provide liquidity to founders and VCs and run the underlying companies for profit with their own infrastructure. There is also a network effect of portfolio companies with early GPs.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In 2010, Antonio Garcia Martinez, the founder of AdGrok, wrote, “New York will always be a tech backwater, I don’t care what Chris Dixon or Ron Conway or Paul Graham say.” On the other had, I wouldn’t be surprised if Miami winds up with a fantastic community feel and vibe but struggles to produce big companies.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

I want to make my community, country or world a better place, while solving some of the toughest problems.”. Team Protocol One – Ensuring JTAC to Pilot Communication. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JULY 2, 2019

A nationwide network of more than 100 Women’s Business Centers (WBCs) works with local SBA offices and community partners to provide women entrepreneurs with free business counseling and assistance as well as access to other SBA programs and funding resources. . Information, Networking, and Other Resources for Women Business Owners.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 19, 2022

Welcome to ‘500 Founders’ where we ask innovators from around New Zealand for their top insights for first time startup founders. Grow reciprocal relationships in your support network before you need them. Want to tap in to the best startup advice from entrepreneurs who are out there doing it? Rick Kiessig – Cofounder.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Telemedicine is game-changing as it opens up the possibility of addressing a national market, so long as you have a network of providers licensed to practice in specific states. As the landscape continues to evolve, we look forward to working with founders bringing unique perspectives and innovations in digital health. .

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 19, 2023

Additionally, startups get access to mentors’ extensive networks and connections, and the latter facilitates introductions to potential partners, investors, and customers. I am particularly passionate about promoting government collaboration with startups through mentoring initiatives because I can see the value it provides to both sides.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 15, 2013

This article originally appeared online at Inc.com in an article titled Government Shouldn’t Be In The Accelerator Business. I talk more about this and lots of other topics in my recent book Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City. . All of this is privately funded.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

“A remarkably useful playbook that every business, government, and nonprofit needs to ignite the spark of innovation and fuel the fire of change.” Don’t forget to tweet a photo of your book to see it on thestartupway.com Thank you, as always, for your support.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 26, 2021

I had been in the NY tech scene since 2008/2009 and was just, generally, trying to be helpful to founders, investors, etc. Before becoming a founder, I worked at Aviary for two years and then Dwolla for two years (the latter with my future cofounder Michael Schonfeld ). The community and camaraderie is like nothing I’ve ever seen.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Across the world, work spaces, maker spaces, incubators, and accelerators are opening, expanding, and making an impact on their communities, and beyond. The Endeavor Miami group is one scaleup accelerator that is overcoming those challenges and having an impact on both their community and the broader world. Scaleup Challenge.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 5, 2013

So when the city government seems to be bending over backwards to make tech companies want to start and grow their businesses here, conducting business here might be another story. Government served an incredibly important role regulating ground transportation in the past. It''s embarrassing for us as a tech community.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 14, 2017

by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting , and author of “ Sales Recruiting 2.0: In February, 1869, a letter to the editor of the New York Times questioned why female government employees were not paid the same as male counterparts. That is why it is critical to search beyond your usual network.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Change agents inside a corporation or government agency know how to build consensus and be a rebel at work. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Don Burke has worked 24+ years in the Federal government.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. The Chinese government must be laughing hysterically over U.S. business models.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

When it became clear that waiting for government funding and support would take weeks, if not months, Lenore instead looked to her community for both, using her experience with the layoffs and her expertise as a small business owner to solve two of the massive problems crashing over our society.

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Up and Running

APRIL 8, 2015

Most of the time, a new business just doesn’t have the know-how or the network that an established business would. Incubators provide that very important sense of community. Q&A with Joe Maruschak, co-founder of Fertilab Thinkubator . These are people, volunteers from the community, that want to give back.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. In the U.S, Startup America will leverage its network of 30 startup regions to engage entrepreneurial leaders throughout the country.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 9, 2020

I’ve broken them into three buckets: A) Voting and census; B) Push media companies to inform Americans accurately; and C) Outreach to your employees and community. Nudge your employees, customers, and community to complete the census. Organize volunteer days with the Census to help get communities completion rates up.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Heather Brunner, Tim Ferriss, Mayor Adler, Whitney Wolfe, Kendra Scott, Andy Roddick, Rod Favaron, Bijoy, whurley… Here are some of the Austin startup community members that will be on stage who you should show up to support! If you live in Texas, find out how you can tap into the network. Time: 2:00PM?—?3:00PM March 9, 2018 3:30PM?—?4:30PM

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

The following is a guest post by Kirsten Cluthe and Ritika Puri from The Lean Startup Conference team Wondering what’s new in the Lean Startup community? Every year, our team conducts more than 500 customer development calls to understand what challenges the community is facing. Here are some of our favorites: 1.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

Deputy Chief Technology Officers Cori Zarek and Ryan Panchadsaram to help all levels of government with COVID-19 response and delivery of services. Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. Highlights from the show Jen describes her background in government-tech partnerships. (2:52) Digital Response.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2020

One of my founders texted me, “What are you telling people to do about the Coronavirus?” It’s not the telling my story or that of the founders I’ve backed. I could never have imagined going from a 25-year-old analyst at an institutional investor to seeing what I’ve seen and being a part of this community. He seemed paranoid.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Rob Biederman, co-founder of HourlyNerd, has a funding story that wouldn’t be out of place in a movie. After realizing the “traditional” approach wasn’t getting them anywhere, they turned to their network. “We It just feels right,” says Mike Whitehead, FINEX founder. Look to the government.

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Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

Despite Kenya has been named as the fasted growing payments market in Africa, there is still a lot to be done to develop the local business angel community. I met Innocent Moranga, the founder of the Founder Magazine , at a round table peer group at CEOWorld. All this inspired Innocent Moranga to found the Founder Magazine.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

But now, the defining movie of today’s twentysomethings is “The Social Network”. Along with some friends from Yale (my alma mater), I recently brainstormed some ideas to accelerate a university’s campus tech community. Marketing of tech community : Yale Tech News , Yale Entrepreneurship Magazine.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Pamela Poole is a blogger, translator and tech writer, and founder of Francophilia.com , a social startup for Francophiles. The French government has translated the JEI program into English as the Young Entrepreneurs Initiative , an annual competition run by the French Embassy to the US. The Big Players.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 30, 2012

I heard the word “connector” several times yesterday at the Colorado Innovation Network summit. In both cities (Chicago and Denver) I gave a talk about Startup Communities using the Boulder Thesis as a framework. Government and universities, in my view around startup communities, are feeders, not leaders.

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Gust

DECEMBER 22, 2011

In the 2000s, the company might rent space at a colocation facility; buy, install, provision and maintain its own servers, storage and networking equipment (as we did at MySpace , putting several new servers online per day ) ; and enter into a series of contracts for ever-changing amounts of bandwidth. Has anyone already left the picture?

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

As part of this, TechStars announced the TechStars Network , an affiliation of TechStars-like programs across the country along with our commitment to the Startup America Partnership to help 5000 experienced mentors work with 6000 entrepreneurs to create 25,000 new jobs by 2015.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

I started Good Dog Labs in early 2014 and a year later I officially became a co-founder with the on-boarding of my brother Dino in 2015. More importantly I want to share what I have learned, my expertise, and the opportunity I had back to the Austin tech and startup community. You can also reach me at giovanny.pietro@gmail.com.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 23, 2019

From tips on international expansion strategies to using XR as a musical instrument, these sessions at Capital Factory showcased some amazing innovation in Austin’s startup community. currently helps connect relevant innovation to customers by working with entrepreneurs like Natasha Frank , Founder and CEO of EON.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. The Chinese government must be laughing hysterically over U.S. business models.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Grab a group of friends and tour the latest and greatest of Austin’s startup community. We don’t know of any other location in DC or elsewhere in the country where multiple government innovation groups are colocated together with startups to create their own center of gravity. You can see a much larger list at the end.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

Intro to the Austin EdTech Startup Scene Come meet Sean Duffy , founder of EdTech Austin and let him tell about everything going on in EdTech in Austin! Come network with your friends and share your secret parties, plan your conference sessions, and discuss whose undiscovered indy band is cooler. Time: 2pm to 3pm Location: Hilton?—?Salon

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 7, 2012

Government and tech startups don’t have anything in common. By their very nature, government organizations are typically huge, slow-moving bureaucracies built to deliver continuity. Finding ways to bridge the divide promises to bring new innovation and efficiency to government and help get more people involved in the political process.

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