crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of VC funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. Combined, these factors point to available money for business owners to invest in their ventures. Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2023

Universities and the marketplace are spawning tools like Brainly , which is a learning network or massively multi-player question and answer tool. The challenge is to find these just-in-time, including community and university startup incubators, accelerators, and advisors. Help entrepreneurs with constant learning.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

Join a startup incubator or accelerator. These organizations, like Y Combinator , are very popular these days, and are often associated with major universities, community development organizations, or even large companies. Solicit venture capital investors. Start a crowdfunding campaign online.

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David Teten

AUGUST 15, 2013

The most common ways in which the Fortune 500 are working with the startup community at scale is through corporate VC arms, contests, packages of benefits geared to startups, and accelerator programs. I worked with our intern team to look for the Fortune 500 companies making the strongest effort to reach out to the tech startup community.

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Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

645 Ventures: A New Era of Venture Capital Investing Arena Growth Partners We help great leaders build great businesses. Aspect Ventures | Aligned VC We believe that the interests of investors and entrepreneurs can and should be aligned. For most of us, we have been the only woman partner or senior executive in our firm.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. Combined, these factors point to available money for business owners to invest in their ventures. Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2020

Universities and the marketplace are spawning tools like Brainly , which is a learning network or massively multi-player question and answer tool. The challenge is to find these just-in-time, including community and university startup incubators, accelerators, and advisors. Help entrepreneurs with constant learning.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

Join a startup incubator or accelerator. These organizations, like Y Combinator , are very popular these days, and are often associated with major universities, community development organizations, or even large companies. Solicit venture capital investors. Start a crowdfunding campaign online.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2014

For current founders, in our hyper-pressurized worlds of being incubated, accelerated, and constantly switching modes between pitching and executing, how do we successfully navigate the labyrinth to success? All of these attributes will effectively benefit the entrepreneurial community. by Melissa Thompson, CEO of TalkSession.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

He heads their business development practice and they have been very active in incubating, investing in and helping grow LA startups. Background: GRP Partners is a Los Angeles based Venture Capital firm with additional operations in London and Paris. Contributing overall with marketing and community outreach activities.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2012

But all the press also reinforces the feeling that every startup needs to go through an incubator in order to succeed. Not only do we need to come up with a great idea, we have to make sure that it’s something that works for an incubator. There Is Value in Incubators. That can be incredibly frustrating for startup entrepreneurs.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

My former Partner John Frankel of ff Venture Capital observes that 20 years ago, the defining movie of the generation was “Wall Street”. But now, the defining movie of today’s twentysomethings is “The Social Network”. Marketing of tech community : Yale Tech News , Yale Entrepreneurship Magazine. “CEO is the new Analyst.”.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

As the former CEO of a professional expert network , I’m a firm believer in the value of speedy access to relevant experts. I was excited to see that GLG (formerly Gerson Lehrman Group), the industry leader, is now offering a professional network service geared to the needs of the startup community: GLG Share.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 16, 2017

And according to this Fortune article , Austin’s formula for success is clear: “create an environment with the right pieces, including investors, good business schools, incubators, not too much red tape, and a critical mass of people with a business idea and big aspirations.” Famigo, FAVOR , and WP Engine.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. Combined, these factors point to available money for business owners to invest in their ventures. Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

The challenges are more business challenges and design challenges--so schools need to rethink how they interact with innovation communities if it's not going to only be through commercialization: Recognize that creating a founder should be a secondary goal. Be a community center. Kick the faculty out. Kick the faculty out.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2011

I gave a keynote on entrepreneurship to MPowered , the student Entrepreneurship Organization, spoke on a panel on Entrepreneurship and the Aerospace Industry, and gave another keynote at the Ann Arbor New Tech Meetup and A2Geeks , the regional startup network. Venture Capital ; met with the local hardware/software venture capital firm.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 27, 2011

Depending on the stage of the company, sources may range from FFF (Friends, Family and Fools), angel investors, incubators, startup competitions, grants, crowd funding and off course, VC (though often a last resort in the earliest stages). Emphasis on the “right&# networking not just group drinks in your office twice a year.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

The fact of the matter is, most startups, particularly ones built by young professionals with no network and no track record, aren’t going to get funded. They just booked some space at NYU, threw up a fundraising page on Kickstarter, and started talking it up in the community. It’s a recipe for failure.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2014

”With a growing pipeline of exciting new tech start-ups in Singapore, founders will require funding, experienced mentorship and strong networks to build companies that can compete in worldwide markets. “In 2010 I traveled Asia, meeting over 80 startups from a dozen countries.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Join a startup incubator or accelerator. These organizations, like Y Combinator , are very popular these days, and are often associated with major universities, community development organizations, or even large companies. Solicit venture capital investors. Start a crowdfunding campaign online.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 11, 2012

Until you realize that vetting and helping companies is actually really hard--or did you not notice all the news that venture capital as an asset class doesn't beat the market. Who wouldn't want in on the next Union Square Ventures or First Round Capital funds? At least startups have accelerators, incubators, etc.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2020

Meanwhile, Philly quietly chugs away drawing entrepreneurs and venture capital (VC) dollars. Philly welcomes startups with a growing network of coworking facilities, incubators, and accelerators. An Abundance of Entertainment, Community, and Recreation. Image by David Mark from Pixabay. A Robust Talent Pool.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc. And Jim & I went on to raise several more venture capital funds in our day jobs. And Jamie hers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2018

Universities and the marketplace are spawning tools like Brainly , which is a learning network or massively multi-player question and answer tool. The challenge is to find these just-in-time, including community and university startup incubators, accelerators, and advisors. Help entrepreneurs with constant learning.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Our community colleges are excellent as well, including the Alamo Colleges, Austin Community College, the Dallas College and the Lone Star Community College. In San Antonio we take great pride in our diverse, artistic, affordable and culturally rich community filled with a young and burgeoning creative class workforce.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. Electron-based Venture Capital. When I first came to Silicon Valley the world of Venture Capital looked pretty simple. Their capital needs are low at the front end.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Join a startup incubator or accelerator. These organizations, like Y Combinator , are very popular these days, and are often associated with major universities, community development organizations, or even large companies. Solicit venture capital investors. Start a crowdfunding campaign online.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 30, 2014

They are frequently confused with incubator programs, but the two are technically different. Accelerators focus on early-stage startups, while incubators are geared toward later-stage startups. Incubators. Like accelerators, incubators offer access to office space, contacts, and mentorship. Accelators.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2016

Universities and the marketplace are spawning tools like OpenStudy , which is a learning network enabling massively multi-player study groups. 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.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

TL:DR : This post aims to recap significant changes in the venture capital industry over the past ten years, and then make some [biased] predictions as to major forces at play in the next five years. However, all three shifts are related and can be summed up simply as: Geeks are Taking Over Venture Capital.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

This three day conference has become the “must-attend” event for anyone who is active or new to the startup-community. GigaOM Structure aims tackle the challenge of understanding how to architect data centers, networks and applications along with the big questions emerging in computing and IT. GigaOM Structure. Computing is everywhere!

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2018

It’s all part of his platform as Portfolio Manager of Fintech Ventures Group (FVG), a Vancouver-based, venture capital company that works with Internet startups and other tech businesses. For companies that are in a more advanced stage of growth, venture capital can be key.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Before AngelList, investment dealflow was private and networks revolved around a few connected angels and VC?s. Since the angel network was created, transparent angel investing has exploded and entrepreneurs from any background can get funded. AngelList is a community. The community helps you get intros.

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David Teten

APRIL 18, 2014

In early 2012, my HBS Alumni Angels colleagues and I launched the Venture Capital Access Program (VCAP), an initiative to help women and minority-led businesses to raise capital from the Harvard alumni angel community. ff Venture Capital) for investment consideration. Sheila Marmon, CEO, Mirror Digital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2015

Universities and the marketplace are spawning tools like OpenStudy , which is a learning network enabling massively multi-player study groups. 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.

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