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The 4 Best Cities In America For Startups

YoungUpstarts

If you really want to make it, you need to go somewhere that allows you to network with the thriving tech community. San Francisco is already well publicized. The Seattle tech community is particularly popular, with a large number of companies busy working away on the next big thing.

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HAXLR8R In San Francisco For Their Demo Day on June 18th

Feld Thoughts

Following is a guest post from Cyril about the program along with a link to their Demo Day event in San Francisco on June 18th. Kickstarter), communities (e.g. Upverter) and the natural viral effects of the social web. Thingiverse), collaboration (e.g. But building and selling a complete hardware product is still hard.

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Build it and they won’t come: How and why growth hacking came to be

The Next Web

Companies from San Francisco to London are recruiting growth hackers. Why has growth hacking so strongly resonated with the startup community? One explanation is that “growth hacking” is just a catchy way to rebrand marketers, but this begs the question as to why “growth hacking” went viral in the first place.

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Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

And passionate players are often the backbone of game communities – especially online. We cultivated a passionate community that nurtured a skilled set of developers. In a previous post , I covered the three main drivers of growth: Paid, Sticky, and Viral. Let’s look at a viral growth company, like Facebook.

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Why We Invested in The Nudge

View from Seed

Activities range from a night out at SF’s best Secret Bar , to an exclusive “Date Night at the SF Ballet ,” to the top day hikes suggested by the Nudge community.

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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

And that involves processes, structures, feedback loops, analytics and a community.”. The San Francisco-based company made do with $50 million to build its product from scratch to current iteration. Still, a product is nothing without scalability. You can’t just build a product today, you need to build a venture. 7) Shopify.

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Why Reporters Ignore Your Seed-Stage Startup Pitches, And How to Fix That

View from Seed

And don’t pitch a Boston newspaper on your San Francisco startup. Even if your own company isn’t newsworthy, you are on the ground in the startup community, and that is valuable. That means avoiding a pitch to a software-centric publication about your biotech startup. Pitch late. The operative word in “news” is “new.”